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Source: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1030941.html
Family Mourns Jerusalem Stabbing Victim
[Ha'aretz] Nadav Shragai - Friends and family of Avraham Ozeri, 86, murdered in Thursday's stabbing attack in Jerusalem, voiced sorrow and anger at the killing of the man they described as "salt of the earth." "My father was a man whom everyone loved and who never wronged a single person. To stab a man such as this, at this age, is an animal-like act," said Ozeri's son, Amos. Ozeri was born in the capital's Bukharan Quarter to parents who had immigrated from Yemen. In 1942 he enlisted in the British Mandate police force, and fought in the 1948 War of Independence in Jerusalem. He volunteered in the 1956 Sinai Campaign and 1967 Six-Day War, working on Israel Defense Forces fortifications, and worked for 35 years as a customs official. Ozeri's grandson related that his grandfather had planned to participate in a 10-kilometer run in Tel Aviv on Saturday.