Mumbai Terror Attack Israel buries Moshe's parents, other victims of Mumbai attacks

Amid heart-rending scenes, thousands of tearful Israeli mourners on Tuesday bid an emotional farewell to the six Jews killed in the
Mumbai terror attacks, including the parents of the two-year-old orphan Moshe who was rescued by his Indian nanny from the clutches of terrorists. "Moshe, you don't have a father and a mother to hold you in their arms... no parents to hug and kiss you," Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky said as mourners dressed in black chanted hymns with tears rolling down their eyes.
"You are the child of entire Israel," Kotlarsky said adding the community would take care of the boy, whose parents Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivka, 28, were among those killed when terrorists stormed the Nariman House in Mumbai.
Holtzberg and Rivka used to run a centre for ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the Nariman House. An Israel Air Force plane brought their bodies here last night, along with the couple's son Moshe.
Kotlarsky, a Chabad official from New York, delivered a moving eulogy for the young Rabbi and his wife and declared that "we will answer the terrorists." He pledged to rebuild the Mumbai centre and name it after the Holtzbergs.
The Israeli government is also considering conferring the top Israeli honour — "Righteous Gentile" to Moshe's Indian governess Sandra Samuel for rescuing the child. The honour, usually reserved for saviours of Jews from Holocaust, may facilitate her further stay in Israel after she was given a last-minute visa to travel here.

President Shimon Peres, Defence Minister Ehud Barak and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu joined about 10,000 people who crowded outside the sect's headquarters in Kfar Chabad near Tel Aviv. Indian Ambassador Navtej Sarna was also present to share the grief.

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