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1997

The Year of Mourning

Seventy-three soldiers are killed in the helicopter disaster, in a year when Israel mourns again and again.

  1. Two Yasur helicopters collided over Moshav She'ar Yashuv on their way to Lebanon; seventy-three soldiers were killed.
  2. A Jordanian soldier opened fire on schoolgirls from Beit Shemesh visiting the Island of Peace at Naharayim, murdering seven of them; King Hussein came to console the families.
  3. A bridge over the Yarkon River collapsed during the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah, and four athletes from Australia died.
  4. Eleven Shayetet 13 naval commandos and the rescue force's doctor were killed in an operation in southern Lebanon – "the Shayetet disaster".
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