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In 1895, a Pennsylvania mortician accidentally mummified an unidentified alcoholic from the local jail. More than a century later, Reading, PA's 'friend Willie' is finally being laid to rest.

The Kiryat Shaul Cemetery is the final resting place of 80,000 men and women, among them well-known actors and poets, with the east reserved for soldiers who died on duty. Now Maxim is among them.

Batsheva Nigri was murdered in a terror attack on Monday morning when a terrorist shot at the car she was riding in.

In today’s Israel, nothing is off-limits and everything is up for grabs and can be attacked. A fallen IDF soldier, Hillel Ofen, knew what he belonged to. But we have forgotten.

Crowds gathered at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery to pay their last respects at the funeral of Corporal Hillel Nehemiah Ofen, who recently died during a military training session.

Chen Amir, a security guard who was killed in a terrorist shooting on Saturday, was buried on Sunday evening in the cemetery at Kibbutz Reim.

Greenville County Sheriff's Office deputies on scene jumped into the water in an attempt to locate the man but were ultimately unsuccessful. 

“I received with pain and sorrow the news of the death of the late Capt. Leader Peretz, a logistics officer in the 7th Brigade,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant wrote.

These salt-of-the-earth Israelis also explain why the entire world is a much better place, because it contains this little speck on the globe, this beauty mark called “Israel.”

Amir was buried next to Sgt. First Class David Yehuda Yitzhak, the soldier who fell earlier this week during the operation in Jenin.