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July 2, 2014

Pope phones rabbi, offers condolences over murder Israeli teens' murder

Women cry during the eulogy July 1 for Eyal Yifrach, one of three Israeli teens found dead in a West Bank field 18 days after they disappeared trying to hitchhike home. Israel blamed the Islamist movement Hamas and launched targeted airstrikes into the G aza Strip.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis telephoned Rome's chief rabbi to personally express his sadness over the murder of three kidnapped Israeli teens whose bodies were found June 30 in Hebron, West Bank.

Published in Vatican