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12/2/2008, Kislev 5, 5769
Teary-Eyed Thousands Mourn at Holtzberg Funerals
Thousands of mourners jammed Kfar Chabad Tuesday and heard leading rabbis and President Shimon Peres eulogize Chabad Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, two of the six Israelis murdered by Muslim terrorists in the Mumbai massacre last week.
Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky vowed that the Mumbai Chabad center will be re-named after the couple, whose two-year-old son Moshe was saved by their nanny when she snatched him and fled the terrorist-infested building.
"You don't have a mother who will hug you and kiss you." He cried. "You are the child of all of Israel."
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