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Article: Hijacked Ethiopian plane crashes with 8 Israelis aboard
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- Jerusalem Post
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- November 24, 1996
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BATSHEVA TSUR, ARIEH O'SULLIVAN and news agencies
Jerusalem Post
11-24-1996
EIGHT Israeli citizens are believed to have been on an Ethiopian airliner which was hijacked with 178 passengers and crew aboard, then ran out of fuel and crashed yesterday off the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean. Over 100 of the passengers are believed dead.
Four of the Israelis missing in the crash -- Shraga Bar-Nissan of Karmei Yosef, Amram Ben-David of Netanya, Yehuda Soroka, and Gabi Levy -- are employees of Israel Aircraft Industries' marketing division, returning from a trip to India. The other Israeli passengers are two businessmen and two students: Elazar Levkovitz, Yehezkel Raz, Ya'acov Bracha Bar-On ...