Yesterday afternoon, over six years after the September 11 attacks, the remains of Alona Avraham were laid to rest in her hometown of Ashdod in southern Israel. Alona, who was 30 at the time of her murder, had been on United Airlines flight 175 from Boston, which crashed into the southern tower of the World Trade Center. She had just completed her MBA studies and was on a visit to the U.S.

Her mother, Miriam, said she was informed about a month and a half ago that the remains of her daughter had been identified using DNA samples taken from relatives. Hundreds of people took part in the funeral, including the relatives of other Israelis who perished in the 9/11 attacks.

Miriam Avraham said that burying her daughter’s remains provided an element of closure: “Now at least we have a place where we can pray and visit her.”

Alona’s funeral is another small reminder of how heinous is the lie – believed not just by many millions around the world, but equally disturbingly by many Americans – that “the Israelis were warned to stay away before the Mossad carried out the 9/11 attacks.” (See the second cartoon, here, for example from Al-Watan, a state-controlled newspaper in supposedly moderate Qatar.)