Rabbi in six-month coma following attack in Ukraine dies in Israel

Tel Aviv (dpa) – Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, who was in a coma after being severely beaten in the central train station of the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir in October, has died, aged 64, a Jewish organization said Sunday. Deitsch’s condition deteriorated in the weeks leading up to his death on Saturday, the Chabad movement said. Deitsch,…