The final victim to be identified from among the hostages murdered in the Mumbai Chabad House massacre last week is Norma Shvarzblat Rabinovich, a Mexican citizen who had planned to immigrate to Israel (make aliyah) on Tuesday and to be with her son Manuel.
He will be sitting shiva, the traditional first seven days of mourning, in Bnei Brak instead of celebrating his 18th birthday with his mother. He began studying at the Hadarat Melech yeshiva last year on the advice of his rabbi in Mexico and made aliyah several months ago.
His older sister Jean, age 24, immigrated to Israel four years ago and studied in Tel Aviv before visiting Tokyo, where she learned the devastating news of her mother's death at the hands of Muslim terrorists. Another sister, Orly, 21, lives with their divorced father in Mexico.
Norma Rabinovich was 50 years old when she was gunned down in the Muslim 
He will be sitting shiva, the traditional first seven days of mourning, in Bnei Brak instead of celebrating his 18th birthday with his mother.
terrorist massacre that began last Wednesday night and painfully went on until Indian commandos eliminated the terrorists, except for one Pakistani national who was captured.
Manuel's rabbi, Yosef Cohen, speaking for Manuel who was too overcome with emotion to talk with reporters, said that Norma left Mexico several months ago but was not sure until a short time ago that she wanted to move to Israel. She frequently visited the Jewish Agency office in Mumbai in order to facilitate her move to Israel and had a ticket in hand for the trip "home."
The Jewish Agency has decided to provide support for the families of those killed in the Mumbai attack from the Fund for the Victims of Terror raised by the United Jewish Communities, according to Jewish Agency chairman Zev Bielski. The decision came along with one by the Israeli government to formally declare all the murdered hostages to be Victims of Terror, a move which allows the families of the victims to become eligible for certain types of support, such as the transportation of their loved ones' bodies back to Israel for burial in the Holy Land.
Norma Rabinovich is the sixth and last victim to be identified in the Chabad House massacre. Also murdered by the terrorists in Mumbai were Chabad Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, Yocheved Orpaz, Ben Tzion Chroman and Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum.