President Reuven Rivlin throws a bar and bat mitzvah party at his official residence for 58 survivors of terror attacks.
“You young people, who make up the family of the victims of terrorism, have had to handle some of these pressures too soon and too quickly,” the president tells the children.
“From an early age you handled loss, pain, responsibility, changes and physical and mental difficulties,” he says.
“You have had to grow up prematurely and often abruptly. There are those of you who were born into bereavement. They know the father, mother, sister or brother who was taken away in a disaster, only from stories and pictures.”
President Reuven Rivlin celebrates the bar and bat mitzvahs of child terror victims at his Jerusalem residence, December 21, 2015. (Mark Neiman/GPO)
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