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How to reconcile religious prohibitions on autopsies with the need to determine a cause of death
By Sarah Weinman | 7:00 AM Oct 23, 2009

A three-year-old Israeli girl was strangled to death by her father earlier this year, and the nation was shocked—by the luridness of the crime, by the father’s subsequent suicide attempts, by the divorce-gone-bad story it emerged was behind the crime, and, not least, by the fuel the child’s mother poured on an ongoing battle between ...