Israel was in mourning on Monday as it buried the young pilot son of the Jewish state's first and only astronaut, himself killed in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster. Assaf Ramon, 21, died on Sunday when the F-16 fighter jet he was flying crashed in the southern hills of the occupied West Bank. He was the eldest son ...

An F-16 fighter plane crash in the West Bank on Sunday killed its pilot, uniting Israel in grief for the son of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who died in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster. The single-seat warplane crashed in a remote hilly region south of the city of Hebron, the military said, adding that it was not immediately clear ...

An F-16 fighter plane crash in the West Bank on Sunday killed its pilot, uniting Israel in grief for the son of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who died in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster. The single-seat warplane crashed in a remote hilly region south of the city of Hebron, the military said, adding that it was not immediately clear ...