One of the Jewish victims of Friday’s Paris terrorist attack, Yoav Hattab, 21, had just returned from a trip to Israel on Taglit-Birthright.
“Taglit-Birthright Israel deeply mourns the murder of the four brave men in the terrorist attack in the Hyper Cacher on Erev Shabbat,” says Gidi Mark, CEO of Taglit-Birthright Israel. “My thoughts are with the families and with the Jewish community of France at these difficult times.”
His friend from the trip, Nathan Levi, writes on Facebook that Hattab’s dream was “to come with his family from Tunisia, to live in Israel.”
“For him, birthright was only the promo,” Levi writes. “He couldn’t wait to finish college, so he can come to Israel already, to join the army, and to become Israeli.”
Yoav Hattab, 21, was killed in a Paris terror attack on Friday, January 9, 2015. (photo courtesy of Taglit-Birthright)
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