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Standing before the grave of his daughter Rebecca, Robert Baruch said there was family history scattered around the cemetery - an uncle buried yards away, killed during Israel's war of independence in 1948.

Professional sports teams and casinos both “have a very strong track record in terms of lobbying state legislatures,” said Marc Edelman, a professor of law at Baruch College who studies gambling history.

“The private athletic conference would be the jurisdictional hook in a joint employer relationship,” said Marc Edelman, a law professor at Baruch College in New York.

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that one of the hostages in Gaza, Sahar Baruch, 25, was killed last month during a rescue attempt.

Baruch’s brother was killed in the attack on their community, Kibbutz Be’eri.