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No Right Way to Say Absent Classmates Are Dead

(Ha'aretz) Anshel Pfeffer - A little after 3 P.M., the principal of the Experimental School in the center of Jerusalem, Uri Geva, assembled the 55 students in the graduating class, the teachers, and dozens of parents. This was the first time he had to tell students about the death of a friend, and there was no right way to do so. When news hit of the suicide bombing, Jerusalem schools began the standard procedure of dealing with terror attacks: homeroom teachers went from class to class, checking who was absent and trying to reach them on the phone. Benaya Jonathan Zukerman, 18, and Lior Azulai, 18, were killed and 12 other high school students were wounded in Sunday's Jerusalem bus bombing.
2004-02-23 00:00:00
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