Khaled Abdelwahab, a prominent and well-connected man from Mahdia, Tunisia who died in 1997, recently became the first Arab nominee for Jerusalem Righteous Among the Nations award--Israel's version of the Nobel Prize--for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. Abdelwahhab was in his early thirties during WWII, when France’s possessions of Morocco, Tunisia and Algiers, along with their Jewish population, fell under German occupation. He made it his business to fraternize with ...