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Terrorists attack Jerusalem synagogue.

I Times of Israel

the congregation of worshipers but rather
"closed the gap:' running up close to his
victims and shooting them "in the head,
he silence of prayer, shattered in a from point-blank range:'
synagogue bloodbath. That's how
Amos ducked behind what is known
congregants and eyewitnesses
as a shtender, a wooden podium used to
describe the attack in the synagogue in
support books for prayer and study, and
Jerusalem's Har Nof neighbor-
then, once the gunman ran past
hood, as they were jarred from
him, he stumbled out the open
the silent Amidah prayer into a
Above: A
synagogue doors, losing his phy-
scene of carnage.
man prays
lacteries in the process, and ran
Yaakov Amos had just fin-
at the
across the street to his family.
ished calling silently on God
scene of the
Joseph Pasternak, a father of
eight originally from Argentina,
to "grant peace everywhere,
synagogue
goodness and blessing; grace,
attack.
was also caught in the middle of
lovingkindness and mercy to us
the silent prayer.
and unto all Israel, Your people
He said he saw both terror-
when two terrorists stormed into Har
ists, one with a handgun and one with "a
Nof's largest synagogue at 7:01 a.m. on
butcher's knife entering the synagogue.
Tuesday. Amos, a trained trauma thera-
A man near him threw a chair at the
pist, was in the middle of the Amidah
gunman; Pasternak said he felt trapped,
prayer when he heard a pair of gunshots
caught between the need to hide and the
issued in quick succession. "Boom-boom:' need to flee.
he said.
"I saw people lying on the floor, blood
He swiveled around fast, his feet still
everywhere. People were trying to fight
together in prayer, and saw "a Jew in phy-
with [the attackers] but they didn't have
lacteries" on the floor.
much of a chance he said.
In those seconds, Amos was transport-
After several seconds, Pasternak said,
ed from the calm of the meditative prayer he regained the ability to run and he
into the middle of a massacre, as terror-
dashed out of the synagogue and into a
ists armed with a gun, a knife and meat
hallway closet, from which he heard the
cleaver killed four people and injured
sounds of the murder, the exchange of fire
several more. Witnesses and rescue work- with police and then finally a semblance
ers described a gruesome scene inside
of quiet.
the Jerusalem synagogue, with blood
Chief Inspector Micky Rosenfeld,
spattering prayer books and people in the
foreign spokesman for the Israel Police,
middle of prayer caught in the carnage.
praised the police officers' actions, saying
A former infantryman in the Givati
they were prompt and prevented further
Brigade, Amos, dressed in the black-and-
loss of life.
white garb of the ultra-Orthodox, said
that the gunman did not fire wildly into
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Three dual U.S.-Israeli nationals
and one British-Israeli citizen were
murdered in the terror attack at the
Jerusalem synagogue.
Rabbi Aryeh Kopinsky, 43, origi-
nally from Detroit, Rabbi Avraham
Shmuel Goldberg, 68, and Rabbi
Calman Levine, 55, all from the Har
Nof neighborhood, were identified
along with Rabbi Moshe Twersky,
59, as victims murdered by two
Palestinian terrorists.
Rabbis Kopinsky, Levine and

Twersky held dual U.S.-Israeli
citizenship after making aliyah. Rabbi
Goldberg, a British-Israeli national,
emigrated from Britain.
Rabbi Twersky, originally from
Boston, was the dean of the English-
speaking Torat Moshe yeshivah. He was
the elder son of renowned rabbi and
author Rabbi Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky
of Boston, and a grandson of Rabbi
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, one of the prin-
cipal philosophers and founders of the
Modern Orthodox movement.

— Jerusalem Post

