Pain and Numberings

Number of Chabad emissaries brutally murdered in Bombay: 2

Number of deaths on the roads of Israel this year*: 244

Number of Israeli Jews who died of lung cancer in 2005**: 1193


"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
- attributed to Joseph Stalin


* Source: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Motorist fatalities 1/1/08 - 31/8/08.
** Source: Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Includes cancers of the trachea and bronchus.