The IDF and Terror Victims Remembrance Day ceremonies included a special one that memorialized Jews killed in anti-Semitic terror attacks outside Israel, some of them Jewish Agency workers.
According to Jewish Agency data, 200 Jews have been murdered in anti-Semitic actions in various parts of the world, since the founding of the Jewish State. Their names are carved on a permanent memorial that will be unveiled at the ceremony.
The Jewish Agency of Israel, the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish National Fund, Keren Hayesod and the United Jewish Communities (UJC) of America joined in planning the event.
Natan Sharansky, former prisoner of Zion and present head of the Jewish Agency spoke, saying: We know that our strength comes not only from the IDF but is enhanced by the Jewish People's identification with the Jewish State. That is why the war against the State of Israel and the Jewish People has no boundaries and our enemies attack us not only in. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, but in Argentina, France, England and Mumbai. Our enemies estimate our strength correctly. It is impossible to separate our identity from our identification.
Representatives of the other organizatons, included: Jewish Agency treasurer Haggai Merom, Jewish National Fund head Effie Shtantzler, Keren Hayesod Chairman Greg Mayzel, UJC Israel head Becky Caspi, Jewish Agency CEO Alan Hoffman and Jewish Agency Employees Committee head Yona Bezaleli.
Joan-Goldie Orta, daughter of the late Norma Shvarzblat-Rabinowich who was murdered in the terror attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai, participated in the event. Norma, a Mexican citizen who had been traveling in India, was planning Aliyah to Israel with Jewish Agency help when she was killed in the vicious attack that claimed eight victims and left the young child of the Holtzberg couple, the Chabad emissaries who ran the house, an orphan. Her daughter, who made aliya in 2004, lit a torch in memory of her mother and the other victims of international anti-Semitism.