This week in Jewish history: Israel's first astronaut, Norman Mailer's birthday, the Columbia space shuttle disaster, the yahrzeit of Rabbi Avraham of Kalisk, Felix Mendelssohn's birthday, the invention of the cardioverter-defibrillator, the Damascus Affair, and the passing of Joshua's contemporaries.
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