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I Grieve for the Man Who’ll Never Return

Yitzhak Ben-Horin February 6, 2003

His face peered out this week from every television set in the United States. It was impossible to escape him. It was impossible to stop looking at him. My heart ached, a real heartache. This time, I couldn\’t stop the tears.

Even I\’m allowed. So what if I\’m a cynical journalist who, in a career spanning over 30 years, covered wars, earthquakes, terrorist attacks and grieving families? I always tried to block emotions and hide behind my mask of professionalism.

Last Saturday morning, the mask broke.

Ramon Memorialized Across America

Rachel Pomerance February 6, 2003

The groundswell of emotion in response to Ilan Ramon\’s death has not only been a great inspiration for American Jews, it also has helped strengthen the bond Americans feel for Israel.

\”It\’s a state of mourning for the whole nation. Our school is no different,\” said Joseph \”J.P.\” Schwarcz, 18, a Yeshiva University freshmanin New York.

At the same time, Schwarcz was quick to note the distinct status of Israel\’s representative on board, Ramon, as a role model for Jews.

\”Throughout the whole week, our deans have come into our class and discussed with us how we should be just like Ilan Ramon,\” he said.

In mourning the tragic flight of the whole Columbia crew, Jews across America are especially touched by the loss of Ramon. Whether Jews saw him as pioneer or peacemaker, most saw him as the best of the Jewish people.

Israel Mourns

Naomi Segal February 6, 2003

Even for Israelis hardened by years of dealing with Palestinian terrorism, the death of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon came as a
difficult blow.

Moments of Silence

Rob Eshman February 6, 2003

There were a lot of moments of silence this week. There was the one early Saturday morning when you first heard the news of the space shuttle Columbia\’s disappearance.

We Soared With Ilan

Yuval Rotem February 6, 2003

Yuval Rotem, Israeli consul general for the Western United States, delivered these remarks at a Feb. 1 dinner for Pressman Academy,
honoring him and his wife, Miri, at the Airport Westin Hotel.

Light From Sorrow

Irene Brown February 6, 2003

As an aerospace writer, I have watched 87 crews slip the bonds of Earth\’s gravity and rocket away into space.

Where No Israeli Has Gone Before

Yitzhak Ben-Horin January 9, 2003

Ilan Ramon walks the pathways of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, slowed by the weight of the thick book under his arm. It\’s the bible of the \”magnificent seven\” — the group of astronauts scheduled to blast off in the space shuttle Columbia Jan. 16 from the Kennedy Space Center. Among these elite seven, for the first time, will be an Israeli astronaut.

Ramon, 48, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force (IAF), counts among his experience more than 4,000 hours in fighter jets. Following a decision by President Bill Clinton in 1995, the United States and Israel signed an agreement stipulating that an Israeli astronaut would fly on a U.S. space shuttle as a payload specialist, supervising an Israeli scientific experiment.

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