The body of a missing American yeshiva student was discovered in northern Israel. Police said Eliezer Zusia Klockhoft, 19, who disappeared two months ago while hiking around the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai at Mount Meron, apparently suffered a fatal fall in a nearby forest.
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