Selected clippings from Josh’s scrapbook:
New York Times – Oct. 22, 2014
AMERICAN KILLED IN HEBRON, ISRAEL
BY WILLA CHAPMAN
An American male was killed yesterday afternoon by gunshot in the center of the city of Hebron by an unknown assailant. The unaccompanied male was Dr. Jacob Marshall, a 52-year-old businessman from California. Details of his death were not immediately available.
New York Times – Oct. 23, 2014
AMERICAN JEW THOUGHT SHOT BY PALESTINIAN
JERUSALEM AND RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed outrage at the murder of an American businessman in the middle of Hebron. Dr. Jacob Marshall was pronounced dead on arrival at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem. Dr. Marshall was a vice president of Nanotech Corp. in Santa Barbara, California. Mr. Netanyahu swore the perpetrators would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Hebron is the site of increasing tensions between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians who make up most of the city’s present-day population. The city is known as the burial place of the biblical patriarchs.
New York Times – Oct. 24, 2014
ABBAS REACTS TO AMERICAN MURDER IN HEBRON
ISRAEL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, said the shooting death of an American citizen will be investigated thoroughly, and the perpetrators, whether Jewish or Palestinian, will be brought to justice. Abbas said that this sort of outrage is a daily occurrence for Palestinians. He noted that the American was carrying a book of Jewish religious poems and suggested that he might be suffering from “Jerusalem Syndrome,” an epithet used to describe a particular mental illness afflicting some ultra-religious individuals visiting the Holy Land.
Jerusalem Post — Online edition – Oct. 26, 2014
AN AMERICAN MARTYR FOR ISRAEL
By Marilyn Gluck
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