A United States Army chaplain killed in a plane crash in Vietnam last month, was buried on a hillside near Jerusalem today in accordance with his last wish. The body of Rabbi Morton M. Singer, 32, was laid to rest at Har Hamenuchot, a cemetery for the fallen of the Six-Day War. Funeral services were attended by the chief chaplain of the Israel Army’s Jerusalem area command, the military attache of the U.S. Embassy and relatives who live in Cholon, near Tel Aviv.
Rabbi Singer, a New Yorker who was educated at City College and Yeshiva University, had planned to settle in Israel with his wife and two children when his tour of duty in Vietnam ended. Before the Six-Day War he had served as a volunteer in the Bikkur Holim general hospital in Jerusalem. He was one of 14 victims of the crash of a U.S. Air force transport plane in Vietnam on Dec. 17. At the time he was on his way to conduct Chanukah services for Jewish servicemen.
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