When I posted three weeks ago how Britons do not think much of Israel, you would have probably thought that it would take magic to draw the average Brit to Israel. And you may not have been mistaken.
Fans of literary boy wizard Harry Potter have been beating a path to the tomb of a 19-year-old British soldier who is buried in a cemetery close to Tel Aviv.Corporal Harry Potter, a member of the Royal Worcestershire regiment, was killed 66 years ago during fighting in the southern West Bank town of Hebron and was subsequently laid to rest in a cemetery in the town of Ramle.“Every day tourists and visitors come wanting to see Harry’s grave,” the cemetery’s custodian Ibrahim Huri told the Maariv daily on Tuesday.“At first I didn’t know why they were interested in this grave, but then I was told there were books and movies about him.”The local council has recently added the grave to the official tourist guide.“There is great interest and curiosity over Harry’s grave,” Ramle deputy mayor said. “We want to make an historical investigation into the soldier killed in Hebron when he was only 19.”
