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Funerals for helicopter crash victims to take place at military cemeteries across the country on Friday, beginning at noon; several victims promoted posthumously.

By Anshel Pfeffer and Haaretz Service

	Team of IAF servicemen arrive in Israel after search-and-rescue mission in Romania on July 29, 2010.
	Photo by: IDF spokesperson’s office

An Israel Air Force plane carrying the bodies of six airmen killed in a helicopter crash in Romania earlier this week arrived at the Tel Nof base on Friday morning, hours before the victims were to be buried at military cemeteries across the country.

Teams of military doctors and members of the Israel Defense Forces rabbinate on Thursday completed the final identification of the bodies of six men, who were taking part in a 10-day joint exercusewere killed when theirhelicopter crashed in the Romanian mountains on Monday.

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