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The first call came at 7:30 pm on Oct. 7. A terrified Israeli army officer was on the other end of the phone. “How long,” he wanted to know, “Does it take for a body to rot?”Haim Otmezgin, a senior member of an Orthodox Jewish group called Zaka that recovers the bodies of dead Jews and prepares them for burial, already knew he was dealing with a massacre. But he had […]