Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, A prominent Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who was severely injured in a knife attack near a central train station in the western Ukrainian city of Zhitomir, has succumbed to his wounds.

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eitsch, an Israeli-French national, was first taken to a local Ukranian hospital with serious head injuries, where he underwent emergency surgery, but then his family arranged for him to be airlifted to Israel through the Israeli consulate in Kiev. He died at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan on Saturday.