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Rita Geffen sits on the steps leading up to Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock, located opposite the southern courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in 1971

(photo credit: AVIE GEFFEN)

ByDAVID GEFFEN

MAY 25, 2017 12:45

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