A ceremony was held in Ukraine for those who died when an airplane was accidentally shot down last year. Last Friday’s ceremony took place near the crash site on the Black Sea. The flight was on its way from Israel to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, when the plane crashed, killing all 78 people aboard, 66 of whom were Jews.
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