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Young Lives Scarred by Loss Find Balm at a Summer Camp

(New York Times) Samuel Freedman - Camp Koby, a special camp for children who had lost parents or siblings in terrorist attacks, is named in memory of another teenager, Koby Mandel, who had been bludgeoned to death by Palestinian attackers in a cave just outside a West Bank settlement. His parents, a rabbi and a writer originally from the U.S., created the camp in part as an answer to their own grief. Thousands of the bereaved were left untended after the initial crisis passed. These survivors included more than 4,000 Israeli children.
2004-07-30 00:00:00
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