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(IsraelNN.com) Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg, whose son Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg was murdered along with his wife Rivka in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, sent an urgent letter to outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday in a plea to stop plans to expel the Jewish residents of the Hevron Peace House. "At the same time we are mourning for our dear children…who merited in their lives and in their deaths to bring wonderful unity to the People of Israel and to bring everyone closer in love and truth, and who were sacrificed on the holy altar of the Almighty before the eyes of every nation, …we plead in every way possible that you not carry out any action that will polarize and cause a schism to the People of Israel, that would cause in the time of mourning of all the People of Israel."

The grieving father also took the opportunity to thank the Israeli government for its help in identifying the bodies of the Jewish victims of the Mumbai attacks and in bringing them to Israel for burial.