All remaining Israelis in Mumbai accounted for - Last two are safe

Last update - 12:21 01/12/2008       
Terror in Mumbai
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Last two Israelis missing in Mumbai found alive and well
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent in Mumbai
Tags: moshe holtzberg, israel news

 

MUMBAI - The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem announced Monday that the final two Israelis who had been unaccounted for in Mumbai since Islamist terrorists attacked the city last week have been located alive and healthy.

 

Seven members of the police's victim identification unit had flown to India on Sunday to assist in locating the two missing Israelis, who were feared killed in one of the terror attacks that struck the city.

 

Meanwhile, dozens gathered at the Knesset Eliyahu synagogue in Mumbai for an emotional ceremony in memory of the six Jews killed last week when Islamist terrorists attacked the city's Chabad headquarters.
 
Rabbi Shmuel Rosenberg, whose daughter Rivka and son-in-law Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg both died in the attack, called on the mourners to continue the work his children had begun as the Lubavitch movement's emissaries to Mumbai and vowed that Chabad would continue to operate in the city despite the bloody acts.

 

Among the participants at the ceremony were Israel's ambassador to India and members of the Israeli rescue team, but all eyes in the room were on the Holtzberg's 2-year-old son, Moshe, who brought the room to tears when during the ceremony he cried out: "Mommy, mommy!"

 

Mark Sofer, the Israeli ambassador to India, also paid tribute to the victims.

 

"This is a tragedy for India and a tragedy for Israel, but above all for the families," he said. "We, our Indian friends and the rest of the civilized world will continue to fight terrorism, until we win."

 

The bodies of the Mumbai victims will be flown back to Israel on Monday for burial.