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Police said probing potential suicide after young man falls to death in Jerusalem
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice are probing whether the death of a young man who fell from a building under construction in Jerusalem was a suicide, Ynet reports.
The victim, who media outlets identified as 20-year-old Menachem Mendel Litzman, fell from the 20th floor of the building during a rally against the conscription of Haredi yeshiva students into the IDF.
He was one of several demonstrators who ascended the high-rise during the protest, which drew hundreds of thousands of rallygoers to the entrance to Jerusalem. His death brought the rally to an abrupt end, as the emcee called on participants to calmly disperse.
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