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Jan 2025
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Episode 1: The Attack

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Just before 6:30 pm on October 3rd, 1980, Oron Shagrir’s mother, Aliza, was walking down Rue Copernic in Paris, looking to buy some figs. Minutes later, she was killed, along with three others, in an explosion that still haunts France today.


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