A North American immigrant to Israel was among three soldiers killed Tuesday in southern Lebanon. The soldier, 1st Sgt. Michael Levin, 22, from Philadelphia, had been living in Jerusalem for the past five months. He had been visiting his parents in the United States but returned to Israel when the fighting broke out, an official of the Jewish Agency for Israel told The Jerusalem Post. Two other soldiers, Staff Sgt. Yonatan Einhorn and Lt. Ilan Gabai, also died in Tuesday’s fighting.
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