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- On 13 July 1990, at 4:30 a.m., 33-year-old Captain (res.) Haggai Mori, set out from Sde Dov airfield without permission with a Dornier Do 28 plane and attempted to defect. According to the Arab sources enemy plane was met by Syrian fighter planes and driven off from Syrian airspace. After this, the pilot committed suicide. The wreckage of the missing Israeli air force plane was found on the western slopes of the Golan Heights, near the Syrian border.
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“Do you not see that so long as society says woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer or minister, but has plenty to be a teacher, every man of you who condescends to teach, tacitly admits before all Israel and the sun that he has no more brains than a woman?”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
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—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 34:10.
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