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| Police in Israel find body they believe could be missing American student | Police in Israel find body they believe could be missing American student |
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| Israeli police said "there is a strong possibility" they have found the body of an American seminary student who disappeared while hiking in Jerusalem last week. | Israeli police said "there is a strong possibility" they have found the body of an American seminary student who disappeared while hiking in Jerusalem last week. |
| Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the body was found in the same area where Aharon Sofer went missing. | |
| Sofer, 23, of Lakewood, New Jersey, had been hiking with a friend in a hilly, forested area on the outskirts of Jerusalem. | |
| "There is a strong possibility that it is the body of the missing student," Rosenfeld said, stressing that a forensics team was still trying to confirm the identification. | "There is a strong possibility that it is the body of the missing student," Rosenfeld said, stressing that a forensics team was still trying to confirm the identification. |
| Rosenfeld would not elaborate or say whether there had been any signs of foul play. Police have been conducting an extensive search for Sofer, an ultra-Orthodox student at a yeshiva – a Jewish religious school named after its founder, Rabbi Tzvi Kaplan. | |
| Sofer's parents flew to Israel to assist with the search. |