The largest provider of Birthright Israel trips postponed its early June trips after a terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv last Friday killed 19 Israeli youths. In a statement to participants, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life said that trips meant to depart June 4 and 5 would be postponed and possibly subsumed in a larger delegation “that will, please G-d,” leave on June 10.
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