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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Rivka Holtzberg

Moshe Holtzberg, 2-year-old orphan of the rabbi and his wife slain in the Mumbai Chabad House, is seen with his relatives at a synagogue in Mumbai, India, December 1, 2008. (AP Photo)
September 20, 2019, 5:07 pm
Orphan of victims killed in attack on Mumbai Chabad House celebrates bar mitzvah
Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were murdered in 2008 by Pakistani terrorists, dons tefillin for first time at ceremony in New York state
By JTA
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet with Moshe Holtzberg and his nanny Sandra Samuel in Kfar Chabad, Israel on July 5, 2017. (Atef Safadi/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
November 20, 2018, 4:01 am
Decade after Mumbai massacre, murdered Chabad couple’s son flourishes in Israel
Living with his grandparents in Afula, ‘Baby Moshe’ Holtzberg regularly sees Sandra Samuel, who whisked him to safety, and plans to have his upcoming bar mitzvah at his old home
By Marcy Oster
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Moshe Holtzberg, the son of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivky Holtzberg, who were killed in the November 26, 2008, terror attack in Mumbai, during a memorial for the victims of the attack at Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai on January 18, 2018. (GPO)
January 18, 2018, 2:58 pm
Child rescued from Mumbai Chabad massacre makes emotional return
Accompanied by nanny who helped rescue him 9 years ago, Moshe Holtzberg unveils memorial to slain parents
By Joshua Davidovich
Moshe Holtzberg, center, a young boy whose parents were killed at the Chabad House in Mumbai during a 2008 terror attack, arrives with grandparents at the site of the attack on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
January 16, 2018, 10:54 am
Child orphaned in 2008 Mumbai attack makes first visit to site
Moshe Holzberg, who was 2 when his mother and father were shot dead by Pakistani terrorists, revisits the Chabad House where it happened
By muneeza naqvi
Indian Prime Minister, left, embracing 11-year-old Moshe Holtzberg, whose Chabad emissary parents were killed in a 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on left in Israel, July 5, 2017 . (Haim Zach/Israeli Government Press Office)
January 1, 2018, 12:35 am
Child whose parents were killed in 2008 Mumbai attack to return to Chabad House
Moshe Holzberg was 3 when his mother and father were shot dead by Islamist Pakistani terrorists; he will revisit home with PM Netanyahu during state trip to India
By JTA
Palestinian Ambassador to Pakistan Walid Abu Ali with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Facebook)
December 31, 2017, 12:11 pm
Palestinians recall envoy to Pakistan after rally with radical cleric
Walid Abu Ali shared the stage with religious leader linked to terrorists who carried out 2008 Mumbai attack
By Zarar Khan
Pakistani head of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) terrorist organization Hafiz Saeed (2L) meets with supporters after offering Friday prayers at Jamia AL Qadsia Masjid following his release in Lahore on November 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STR)
November 25, 2017, 9:33 pm
US says it could downgrade Pakistan ties over release of Mumbai terrorist
Among the 168 dead in 2008 onslaught were a rabbi, his wife and 4 other Jewish visitors at the Mumbai Chabad house
By AFP and ToI Staff
Hafiz Saeed, head of the Pakistani religious party, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, gestures outside a court in Lahore, Pakistan, November 22, 2017. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
November 24, 2017, 8:25 am
Pakistan releases terrorist behind Mumbai attacks that killed rabbi, wife
Hafiz Saeed freed by court order, despite $10 million bounty on his head by US for founding group that killed 168 people in 2008
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C-L) embraces Moshe Holtzberg (C), son of slain US Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg who was killed with his wife in the November 26, 2008 attacks on the Nariman Chabad house in Mumbai, on July 5, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Atef Safadi)
July 5, 2017, 6:55 pm
Orphan saved from Mumbai terror attack tells Modi he wants to return
‘I love you and your people in India,’ 11-year-old Moshe, son of murdered Chabad emissaries Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, says during emotional meeting with visiting premier
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits in a car with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi after the latter arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on July 4, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)
July 4, 2017, 5:33 pm
Arriving for ‘groundbreaking’ trip, Modi vows strong India-Israel ties
‘We love India,’ Netanyahu tells leader of world’s largest democracy, as three day trip to Israel — first ever for an Indian PM — kicks off
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on December 11, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP/Findlay KEMBER)
July 4, 2017, 11:38 am
Indian PM Modi makes ‘historic’ 3-day visit to Israel
Leader of world’s largest democracy will be accompanied by Netanyahu throughout his trip, an honor usually reserved for US presidents
By Raphael Ahren
Neria Bendavid, an Israeli man held in India for alleged possession of LSD (photo credit: Facebook)
May 17, 2015, 6:17 am
Israeli jailed in India attempts escape with US Jew’s help
Neria Bendavid, held in Goa for possession of LSD, planned a ‘Bollywood-style’ getaway, police say
By ToI Staff
Naftali Charter, Chief of Security at Nariman (Chabad) House, which has partially been left in the same state as it was after the Mumbai terrorist attacks, speaks to media on the sixth anniversary of the attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai on November 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ INDRANIL MUKHERJEE)
November 26, 2014, 7:55 pm
India marks six years since Mumbai attacks
Official at Chabad House vows community will ‘never be beaten back by terror’; memorial on Jewish center’s roof nearly completed
By AFP and ToI Staff
Mumbai's Chabad House, where Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, his wife, Rivka, and four other hostages were killed by Islamist terrorists in November 2008. The couple's young son survived the attack, thanks to his Indian nanny. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)
November 29, 2013, 5:05 am
Jews in Mumbai mark 5th anniversary of Chabad House attack
Seven candles lit at ceremony, one for each Jewish victim and another for all victims of horrific 2008 terror assault
By JTA
Indian commandos prepare to storm the Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai during the 2008 terror attacks. (photo credit: Youtube screen capture)
August 29, 2012, 10:19 am
Indian Supreme Court upholds death sentence for Mumbai gunman
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani national, is the only surviving perpetrator of the 3-day, 2008 terror attack that killed 166
By AP and ToI Staff
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