The two Zim line sailors — Yaacov Abu and Zion Abu — murdered in Barcelona while on shore leave there a week ago, were buried at a state funeral in Haifa Cemetery attended by thousands of friends and co-workers. The two men were not related. Transport Minister Haim Corfu, speaking at the funeral, said it had taken the world a long time to heed Israel’s warnings about the dangers to air travel of terrorist hijacking of planes. The terrorist danger now appeared to have spread to the sea lanes, he said.
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