(CNSNews.com) Susan Jones - "This is not just an Israeli astronaut," said Dan Gillerman, the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, referring to Israeli Air Force Colonel Ilan Ramon. "This is a very special person...who carries with him the hopes, the aspirations of Israel at a very difficult time, when this in a way brought a ray of hope and light and something positive into a very difficult situation we are in." The fact that Ramon perished along with six American astronauts was "a manifestation and a testimony to the incredible bond between the U.S. and Israel - a bond of excellence, a bond of hope, a bond of freedom, and of bravery."
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