An Israeli official and the daughter of a man killed on Sept. 11 lit the first candle at a Chanukah ceremony at New York’s Ground Zero. Israel’s consul general in New York, Arye Mekel, and Laura Lehrfeld, whose father, Eric, died in the 2001 attack, lit the candle Tuesday.
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