In a recovery described by doctors as “miraculous,” an 18-year-old Israeli border police guard, critically wounded at the beginning of the recent violence in the Middle East, regained consciousness this week. Shimon Ohana was shot in the chest while patrolling the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.
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