Yesterday morning, two Arab terrorists armed with knives, axes and guns walked into a Jerusalem synagogue and murdered four rabbis in the midst of morning prayer services. The four victims, Rabbis Moshe Twersky, Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, Kalman Ze’ev Levine and Aryeh Kupinsky, were pillars of their community, leaving their families and neighbors reeling from shock.
Avi Nefoussi, a volunteer medic who lives a few blocks from the synagogue, arrived during the shooting. He told The International New York Times that he helped evacuate some of the wounded. “Then, unfortunately, we saw some bodies lying on the floor,” he said. He came across Kupinsky, whom he “knew personally, very well.” Kupinsky’s prayer shawl was still wrapped around his shoulders, as it is during daily prayer, and sometimes at burial. Nefoussi took his friend’s prayer shawl and covered the fallen man’s body before leaving.
- Blood on prayer shawls and prayer books in the synagogue. (Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO/Flash90)
- Blood on prayer shawls and prayer books in the synagogue. (Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO/Flash90)
- (Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO/Flash 90)
- (Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO/Flash 90)
- (Photo: Yonatan Sindel, Flash 90)
- Zaka personnel (Photo: Zaka Sokesperson)
- Worshipers return to the site where two terrorists butchered Jews with pistols and axes. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel, Flash90)
- A worshiper looks at a bullet hole in the Har Nof synagogue. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel, Flash 90)
- Hundreds of Israelis mourn at the funeral of three of the victims killed in Har Nof. (Photo: Miriam Alster, Flash 90)