Nearly 2,000 people attended a memorial service at a Houston synagogue for Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon and his six fellow Columbia crew members. Among them were Ramon’s father, Eliezer Wolferman, and Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Daniel Ayalon.
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