PM rebuffs ultra-Orthodox refusal to say massacre happened at synagogue

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushes back on the refusal by ultra-Orthodox leaders to characterize the location of the Pittsburgh shooting as a synagogue.

“Jews were killed in a synagogue. They were killed because they are Jews. The location was chosen because it is a synagogue. We must never forget that. We are one,” Netanyahu tweets from the prime minister’s official Twitter account.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Jews were killed in a synagogue. They were killed because they are Jews. The location was chosen because it is a synagogue. We must never forget that. We are one."

— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) October 29, 2018

On Sunday, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau condemned the killing of 11 American Jews in the Conservative Tree of Life Synagogue, but seemed to equivocate on calling the house of worship a synagogue, instead terming it “a place of clear Jewish character.”