Israelis bury their dead after synagogue attack
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Thousands of people mourned the four men killed in the attack on a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday (November 18).
Large crowds gathered on a Jerusalem street to pay last respects to Aryeh Kopinsky, Calman Levine, Avraham Shmuel Goldberg and Moshe Twersky.
Israeli police said that three of the people killed by two Palestinian attackers were dual U.S.-Israeli nationals and the fourth man held British and Israeli citizenship.
The three U.S.-born Israelis were identified by police as Twersky, Kopinsky and Levine, and the British-Israeli man was named as Avraham Shmuel Goldberg.
The men's bodies were wrapped in mourning cloths, carried on simple stretchers and transported for burial in open backed vans as the sun set.
Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed the four men in the worship hall of a synagogue before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city amid a s
Thousands of people mourned the four men killed in the attack on a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday (November 18).
Large crowds gathered on a Jerusalem street to pay last respects to Aryeh Kopinsky, Calman Levine, Avraham Shmuel Goldberg and Moshe Twersky.
Israeli police said that three of the people killed by two Palestinian attackers were dual U.S.-Israeli nationals and the fourth man held British and Israeli citizenship.
The three U.S.-born Israelis were identified by police as Twersky, Kopinsky and Levine, and the British-Israeli man was named as Avraham Shmuel Goldberg.
The men's bodies were wrapped in mourning cloths, carried on simple stretchers and transported for burial in open backed vans as the sun set.
Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed the four men in the worship hall of a synagogue before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city amid a s