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Jewish gravestones vandalized at Argentina cemetery

Some 58 gravestones were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Argentina\'s Buenos Aires province on Friday and Saturday, local news Web site Momento 24 reported.
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September 14, 2009

Some 58 gravestones were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Argentina’s Buenos Aires province on Friday and Saturday, local news Web site Momento 24 reported.

Eight of the graves were the resting places of victims of the 1994 terrorist attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association Jewish Center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.

Read the full story at HAARETZ.com.

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