A hero of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center was buried in Israel. Abraham Zelmanowitz, 55, had refused to leave his 27th floor office after planes struck the Twin Towers last Sept. 11, preferring to remain with a paraplegic coworker who was unable to descend the stairs.
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