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Rivlin asks Ethiopia to expedite transfer of Israeli’s body found off desert trail
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePresident Reuven Rivlin asks the Ethiopian government to expedite the transfer to Israel of the body of 21-year old Israeli student Aya Na’amneh, found Sunday in an Ethiopian desert near where she went missing a day earlier.
Writing to his counterpart, Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde, Rivlin asked “to hasten as much as possible the treatment of transporting the late Aya Na’amneh’s coffin to Israel and her burial by her family’s side in Israel,” according to a statement from the president’s office.
“The president conveyed his deepest condolences to Aya’s family via their family friend, MK Issawi Freij, whom he met with today and asked to give a warm hug of comfort to the mourners,” the statement adds.
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