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<font size=3>The Bais Yosef (YD 367) brings from the Kol Bo that there is
a mitzva to be Melavah an Akum four amos. The Bais Yosef explains
that this refers to Chasidei Umos HaOlam because they have a Cheilek of
Olam Haba. <br><br>
Rav Moshe Shternbuch (1:721) brings the Rambam who says that this is only
if the Akum kept the seven Mitzvos Bnei Noach. Moreover he needed
to have kept them because that is what Hashem wanted and not merely as a
humanitarian gesture. However says Rav Shternbuch, from the words
of the Bais Yosef it seems that any Akum who is kind to Am Yisroel has
this status, as long as he in fact keeps the seven mitzvos, even if it
isn't Lishma.<br><br>
From here we learn, says Rav Shternbuch, that any Akum that was good to
Am Yisroel, not only could we pay him his last respects, but it is even a
mitzva to do so. This will also show our Hakoras Ha Tov and make a
Kiddush Hashem.<br><br>
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