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Vigil To Remember Massachusetts Teen Killed In Attack In Israel

SHARON (CBS/AP) — A Massachusetts teenager killed in an attack in Israel earlier this month is being remembered with a candlelight vigil.

Family and friends came together to remember Ezra Schwartz at Lake Massapoag in Sharon.

Schwartz was one of three people killed Nov. 19 by a Palestinian motorist who intentionally rammed his vehicle into a group of pedestrians in a West Bank area south of Jerusalem.

The 18-year-old Sharon resident graduated earlier this year from Maimonides School in Brookline.

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Ezra Schwartz (Image via Facebook)

He was in Israel for pre-college "gap year" studies and had been among a group of volunteers delivering food to Israeli soldiers at the time he was killed.

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