A fund raiser for an Israeli university was among those who perished in Sunday’s Egypt Air crash. Sheila Jaffee, 53, of Huntington Beach, Calif., raised money for Hebrew University. She was one of four members of a club who had been planning a trip to Egypt and Israel for nearly a year.
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