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AN ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FUNERAL OF MORDECHAI AND SHALOM LAPID - December 7, 1993, Israel. Mordechai Lapid, a world famous Jewish refusenik who defeated the Soviet Union and risked his life to leave Russia and come to Israel so he can live as a Jew. He was travelling in Israel with his family. On December 6th 1993 a Palestinian car drove by them and sprayed the family car with bullets. The father Mordechai and his son Shalom died from their wounds, and three other children were injured. The doctor that arrived on the scene was a close friend of the family; his name was doctor Baruch Goldstein. After his friend died in his hands, many said Goldstein was deeply traumatized by this event. Three months later, on February 25th 1995 Goldstein would carry out the most heinous terrorist attack ever carried out by a Jew. He would shoot Muslim worshipers while they were praying in a mosque in Hebron killing 25 Muslim worshipers and injuring over 100. Goldstein was very rightfully condemned by every single Jewish organization, rabbi, and the Israeli government.