Some 150 people attended the funeral in southern Russia of the immigrant Israeli soldier who was killed over the weekend in the southern Lebanon security zone. Sgt. Nikolai Rappaport, who was 23, lived in Krasnodar until he and his father, Ilya, immigrated to Israel two years ago. In Israel, a scandal erupted after Israeli President Ezer Weizman paid a condolence call to Rappaport’s family in Tel Aviv and saw the squalor in which they lived.
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