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Nearly 3,000 people were killed, including Daniel Lewin SM ’98, who many believe was the first person killed in the attacks. According to FAA reports, Lewin was fatally stabbed on American Airlines Flight 11 before hijackers deliberately crashed the plane into the North Tower of World Trade Center.

A Jewish American-Israeli who served in an elite army unit of the Israel Defense Forces, he later enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and went on to found Akamai, a content...

Daniel Mark Lewin , sometimes spelled Levin, was an American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur who co-founded internet company Akamai Technologies. A passenger on board American Airlines Flight 11, it is believed that Lewin was stabbed to death by Satam al-Suqami, one of the hijackers of that flight, and was the first victim of the ...

Danny Lewin with Akamai co-founder Tom Leighton in 1999. Photo courtesy Boston Globe In 2013, in an excerpt adapted from Molly Knight Raskin’s book, Slate told the story of Danny Lewin, who in...

As a terrific new biography of Lewin—No Better Time, by Molly Knight Raskin, released this week—demonstrates, the tenacity that the young entrepreneur displayed in his last moments was the ...

11.09.2022 Daniel Lewin: The Israeli-American 9/11 Hero In honor of every soul that was lost due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the IDF would like to pay tribute to Daniel Lewin, a veteran of the prestigious IDF counterterrorism unit, Sayeret Matkal.

Daniel Lewin, a Massachusetts dad and leader who commanded an elite military group in Israel, is believed to be the first victim of 9/11. He spoke Arabic, realized what was happening and lost his life trying to stop the terrorists.

Lewin may have finished his Ph.D., something that always nagged at him. Friends thought he could have entered Israeli politics. Or he could have become a high-tech household name, like Bill Gates ...