Jerusalem resident says honoring murdered hostage’s Hersh’s funeral procession is ‘best we could do’ for Goldberg-Polin family

In a Jerusalem neighborhood along the funeral procession route, hundreds of people line the roads bearing Israeli flags.

Jerusalemite Elisheva, who brought her toddler daughter and a large Israeli flag, chokes back tears as she explains why she came to pay her respects.

“It is the absolute best we could do for the Polin family,” she says.

Elisheva explains the connection she felt to Hersh, having been raised herself in the capital and having “loved going to raves.”

Hersch’s parents, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, she says, had “spoken in so many places of the singularity of their son and the importance of all the hostages.”

After the convoy of vehicles passes, the crowd spontaneously gives a subdued rendition of Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem.

As the crowd disperses a woman can be heard shouting against the government. A man responds, calling to her that it should be decided “in the voting booth.”