Fact-check: “Daniel Lewin was the first victim of 9/11”
Verdict: Unverifiable (25% confidence)
The 9/11 Commission Report documents that Daniel Lewin, seated in 9B aboard American Airlines Flight 11, was stabbed by hijacker Satam al-Suqami — likely around 8:15–8:20 a.m. — before the plane struck the North Tower at 8:46 a.m., placing his death before all other confirmed 9/11 fatalities. The IDF's official website and multiple institutional sources explicitly call him the first victim, and no documented evidence places any other death earlier in the sequence. The claim is very well support…
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