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Israeli lawyer talks about his old friend Steven Sotloff

(3 Sep 2014) A friend of the America journalist Steven Sotloff, who was recently beheaded by the Islamic State group, remembered him as an adventurous man who was fascinated with the Middle East. Michael Sapir spoke to AP Television about the memories he has of Sotloff and the time they spent together in Israel. Sapir said he had last seen the journalist in July 2013, when the two watched a rugby match in Israel at the Maccabiah, the Jewish Olympics. It took place shortly before Sotloff was kidnapped. "He had the ability to meet somebody and within a matter of hours become friends with that person," Sapir said. "I think that's sort of what he brought to being a freelance journalist, that he was able to go out to the field and get these type of stories," he added. Sapir said he was not surprised to hear that Sotloff went to Syria to follow the political events there, as he was keen to help the Syrian people get their stories out. "That's what I found the very sad irony of his death, is that not only it was at the hand of terrorists and a savage beheading but you killed somebody that was actually advocating a story to help the people who are suffering that you claim to be, you know, trying to save." Sotloff, a Miami-area native who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, vanished a year ago in Syria and was not seen again until he appeared in a recent video that showed the beheading of American journalist James Foley. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the US stopped airstrikes on the Islamic State. In the video distributed on Tuesday and titled "A Second Message to America," Sotloff appears in a similar jumpsuit before he is beheaded by a fighter from the militant group. The extremist group has conquered wide swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq and declared itself a caliphate. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...