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Orkney student killed in Jerusalem bomb

March 24, 2011 17:11
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Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

The British woman who died following Wednesday’s bomb attack in Jerusalem had been in Israel just a few months.

Mary Jean Gardner, a 59-year old woman from Orkney in Scotland, was studying at Hebrew University when she boarded the 74 bus.

An evangelical Christian, she was in Israel for a six month period to improve her language skills for her work translating the Bible for a Togo tribe.

More than 30 others were wounded in the blast, the first to hit the city in seven years. Twelve people are still being treated in hospital.

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