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Ezra (Azura) Scherpler, the founder of the Jerusalem Azura restaurant based in the Mahane Yehuda Market, died passed away Wednesday at the age of 87. Scherpler opened the restaurant in 1952 and it quickly became a Jerusalem culinary institution to which people from all over the country made pilgrimages. Over the years, the Azura restaurant became a cultural icon, and the singer and composer Yossi Banai even wrote a song that bears the restaurant's name, in which he sang about Scherpler himself.
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