Jerusalem – One of the four victims in Tuesday’s deadly terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue was the leader of a local yeshiva.
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Rabbi Moshe Twersky, the 60-year-old dean of the English-speaking Torat Moshe yeshiva, was the first victim of the attack to be named.
His funeral was scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Givat Shaul cemetery in the capital.
Twersky was the elder son of the renowned rabbi and author Rabbi Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky of Boston, and a grandson of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, one of the principle philosophers and founders of the Modern Orthodox movement.
Moshe Twersky lived in the Har Nof neighborhood close to the Bnei Torah synagogue where the terror attack was carried out.
Eight other people were wounded in the attack, including two police officers.
According to police, the two suspected Palestinian terrorists, armed with a gun and axes, attacked worshipers after entering the “Kehilat Yaakov” synagogue on Agasi Street in the capital’s Har Nof neighborhood. Two police officers quickly arrived to the scene and exchanged fire with the suspects, killing them.
Palestinian sources reported that the two suspects from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukabaer were cousins.
The attack marks the latest incident in a flare of violence that has surged over the past few weeks in Jerusalem.
Israeli leaders have condemned Tuesday’s deadly attack as have Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post
How do these animals alyaws manage to kill US citizens?
The Jewish People are one. What does it matter if they are US citizens? When any Jewish person is attacked, we are all attacked – doesn’t matter what stripes we wear.
Israeli leaders have condemned Tuesday’s deadly attack as have Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Why even mention Abbas’ condemnation of the attack! Nechshavnu Latzoin Lotevach RLT”Z
Israel knows what it must do to these savages
NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT !!
that first comment on this page should make every jew upset and should be removed, IS AMERICAN JEWISH BLOOD MORE RED THEN ISRAELI? we are brothers of one family and we are the same no matter where or who.
VIN: Can you please clarify the word ‘suspects’? Is someone shooting an innocent man a ‘suspect’ or a murderer?