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Columbia (2): Israeli astronaut shows the Torah from the space

Cape Canaveral, Usa - The book is a gift of an Holocaust survivor scientist

Before the Columbia launch, Joachim Joseph, a Tel Aviv University scientist, who assists the mission from Nasa control in Maryland, has given to Israeli Ilan Ramon the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. Yesterday Ramon has remembered the gift and during the television live with the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, he has showed the precious book. Joachim Joseph, 71 years old, had received...

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Rome, Italy, 01/23/2003 15:25
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