As you know,

Everyone who accepts the seven [Noahide] commandments and is careful to perform them – this person is of the Chasidei Umos HaOlam, (Righteous Amongst the Nations) and he has a portion in the World to Come.

He accepts them and performs them because they were commanded by the Holy One Blessed is He revealed to us by the hand of Moshe Rabbenu that the Bnei Noah were previously commanded in these things.

Since the state of Israel is dominated by a secular government, they do not honor you lovely Bnei Noach for fulfilling the above Torah definition of “Righteous Gentile.”  Israel does, however, recognize mesirat nefesh - self-sacrifice and heroism.  And thus…

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(IsraelNN.com) Israel plans to name Sandra Samuel, who saved the life of two-year-old Moshe Tzvi Holtzberg from the terrorist attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai, as a person who is “Righteous among the Nations,” – a Righteous Gentile It is the highest Israeli award that may be presented to a non-Jew.

Samuel will be the first citizen of India to be honored with the title. Other recipients of the honor, which is bestowed by a special commission headed by a Supreme Court Justice, include Oskar and Emilie Schindler, and Raoul Wallenberg. It has generally been awarded to people — 22,000 to date — who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.