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Illinois appellate court to hear arguments on Hamas terror funding
A judge first ruled in favor of the family of terror victim David Boim in 2004
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Joyce and Stanley Boim get into a cab outside federal court in Chicago in this Dec. 8, 2004, after three Islamic charities and an alleged fund-raiser for Hamas were ordered to pay $156 million to the parents, whose 17-year-old son, David, was shot and killed by terrorists in 1996.
Twenty-five years after American yeshiva student David Boim was killed in a terrorist attack at a West Bank bus stop in 1996, oral arguments are set to begin Thursday in an appeal over whether the teenager’s family can collect...