US Siblings Killed in House Fire to Be Buried in Jerusalem

The bodies of seven ultra-Orthodox Jewish siblings who died in the most fatal New York house fire in years arrived Monday in Israel for burial. The bodies of the children from the Sassoon family, ages 5 to 16, were flown into Israel's international airport and whisked away by police escort in a convoy of cars toward a Jerusalem cemetery. Their ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn was shattered by the fatal house fire believed to have been caused...

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