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An American educator who marched for civil rights in the 1960s and advocated coexistence between Muslims and Jews when he moved to Israel has died of wounds sustained in a Palestinian attack on a bus in Jerusalem two weeks ago, officials said.
It was one of many attacks in a month of violence triggered in part by Palestinian allegations of Israel changing long-standing agreements at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, charges Israel has strongly denied and said amount to incitement to violence.
Richard Lakin, 76, died Tuesday of wounds suffered Oct. 13 when two Palestinian men boarded a bus in Jerusalem and began shooting and stabbing passengers. It was one of the bloodiest...