Much ado is made in the press Wednesday about the burial of the four Jewish victims of last week’s Paris terrorist attack in Jerusalem, but a protest by high school students also garners significant attention in the tabloids.
President Reuven Rivlin’s remarks at the semi-state funeral take precedence in Haaretz‘s coverage of the eulogies, but the paper notes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog also made an appearance, along with a French government representative. The paper places the crowd attending the funerals at about 2,000, but Israel Hayom cites a smaller “many hundreds” of people. Israel Hayom also says that they were laid to rest “in their home, in the land that they loved so much” — downplaying the fact that they were French Jews who lived in France.
Thousands of people attend the funeral of the four Jewish victims in Jerusalem on January 13, 2015. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Yedioth Ahronoth shunts the story down to Page 4, and reports that much of the crowd at the funerals were immigrants from France, and that of the four killed in the attack, one dreamed of moving to Israel, another had already bought an apartment, and a third intended to move.
The war with Iran has been draining for all of us in Israel. But when I heard about a high casualty incident – ballistic missile impacts in Arad and Dimona that left nearly 200 people wounded – I drank a cup of coffee, packed a bag, and headed south.
There, I spoke with Shilgit, the head of an after-school program for underprivileged youth. Standing outside her destroyed center, Shilgit said it was a miracle that no children were hurt and spoke about the community coming together in the hours since.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
