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Rachel Kol
Rachel Kol
23/07/2005 - שבת ט"ז תמוז תשס"ה
Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem.
Rachel had worked for the last 20 years as a technician in the neurology laboratory at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem.

The Kols met in tragic circumstances. Dov was widowed 20 years ago. His first wife, Hani, was Rachel's best friend. "Rachel looked after Hani devotedly until the day she died in 1985. After this tragedy Dov and Rachel drew gradually closer until in July 1986 they were married," said a friend of the couple. Together they raised Hani's daughter, Hila, and their two children, Tamar and Yonatan.

Rachel's sister, Ilana, said, "This family is an amazing combination of everything, right and left, religious and secular, in the united and fully appreciative way that the State of Israel should be. They were an outstanding example of how this country's diverse groups should get along."

Rachel Kol was buried alongside her husband Dov in Jerusalem's Har Hamenuhot Cemetery. She is survived by daughters Hila, 24, and Tamar, 17, son Yonatan, 15, and newborn granddaughter, Hallel, Hila's daughter. Rachel is also survived by her parents, six sisters, and a brother.

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