Three Israelis were killed and 45 were injured in road accidents during the last two days of the Passover holiday which ended Saturday night. A tragedy of a different kind befell the family of Tuvia Friedman, a Holocaust survivor who has devoted his life to tracking down Nazi war criminals still at large. His son, Yaacov Ronny, 19, drowned while skin-diving off Sham el-Sheikh in Sinai.
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