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Yosef Alon
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli air force officer who was mysteriously shot and killed in the driveway of his home in maryland”. Today it says “israeli air force officer and military attache to the u”.
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Yosef (Joe) Alon ( Hebrew : יוסף (ג'ו) אלון), born Josef Plaček (July 25, 1929 – July 1, 1973), was an Israeli Air Force officer and military attache to the U.S. who was shot and killed in the driveway of his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland . The killer was never identified and Alon's murder remains unsolved.
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israeli air force officer who was mysteriously shot and killed in the driveway of his home in maryland
Now
israeli air force officer and military attache to the u
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