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...25th anniversary by throwing the biggest bash in its history. The ceremonies will begin at sundown on May 6 at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. There twelve torches will be lighted by surviving heroes of Israel's 1948-49 war of independence. In a separate ceremony. President Ephraim Katzir and the chief of staff, General David Elazar, will light a memorial torch at that holiest of Jewish holy places, the Wailing Wall in Old Jerusalem...
More than half of the dead were Puerto Ricans arriving for a long-planned tour of the Holy Land. Another victim was renowned Israeli Biophysicist Professor Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky, 58, who was returning from a symposium at M.I.T. Also among the dead: two of the three Japanese. One had apparently been shot by a companion who accidentally swung his gun too far. The second had dashed out, and either tossed his grenade at a parked jetliner, and was killed when it exploded on the rebound, or held the grenade in his hand and committed suicide; he was decapitated. The third...