A Jewish doctor reportedly tended to Yasser Arafat on his deathbed. Citing French government sources, Ma’ariv said Wednesday the unnamed physician was one of a select group of doctors who tended to the Palestinian Authority president at the military hospital outside Paris, where he died Nov. 11 of a mysterious illness.
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