'The Indian and Israeli rabbis were singing a small departure song for brave little Moshe, who had spent many, likely, heartbreaking but bittersweet hours at this home of his babyhood, looking at the drawings his mother had made for him, that were still up in his room.'
"The restoration work started last Saturday after we were awarded the contract on Tuesday. We have been asked to complete the work before November 26 as they are going to hold some candle light vigil," the construction in-charge told PTI. The five-storey building, also known as Chabad House in Colaba in south Mumbai, stands as a mute testimony to the two-day terror siege with walls of its rooms and passageways pockmarked by hundreds of bullets and splinters from grenades.
Little Moshe survived the terror onslaught because of his brave Indian nanny Sandra Samuels.
The Centre has accorded a security cover of armed Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) commandos for the Hyderabad premises of Bharat Biotech, one of the major COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers in the country, official sources said on Tuesday.
Security has been heightened at the Israeli embassy, consulates and other Jewish establishments in several states following intelligence inputs that terror groups like Lashker-e-Tayiba may target them.
'Since I felt there could be more, I had told the local authorities to screen every hostage carefully, since we felt that some could have been staying as guests.'
Nariman House, a Jewish establishment in Mumbai, which was the target of recent terror attacks that killed about 200 people, including eight Israelis, would be reopened soon.The complex, also known as the Chabad House, has been closed after Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka were killed by the terrorists holed up in the house. The Jewish leaders told the New York Times that after the death of Rabbi, several young Chabad couples from around the world stepped forward.
'We can't say that a year has gone by and it doesn't hurt. But that they didn't succeed, that we can say!' Voices from a memorial ceremony in New York for Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivika who were killed in the terror attacks.
Four Hasidic rabbinical students at the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, remember slain Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivkah.
On second day of his visit, Modi will also meet Moshe Holtzberg, the Israeli child who as a toddler survived the 26/11 attack.
In India, the anniversary of 26/11 comes and goes with only the bare minimum of remembrance. We don't even bother very much about honouring those who acted with great bravery that day, rues Vir Sanghvi.
'American-Israelis know the dangers involved. They know they can be targeted, so they always take precautions. Security is important to them,' says Rabbi Sharon Benjamin Galsulkar.
'They are both very individualistic and have similar personalities.'
Ten terrorists of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai. At least 166 people, including six Americans and nine terrorists, were killed and over 300 others were injured in the attacks which began on November 26, 2008.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper March 12 attended a reception organized by the Canadian Confederation of Chabad Luvabitch, an Orthodox Jewish organization, at Parliament Hill. He expressed his 'deepest sympathies to the Chabad Lubavitch family and all those who mourn the deaths of Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg,' who were killed by terrorists in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks.
At a reception on Thursday organised by the Canadian Confederation of Chabad Luvabitch, an Orthodox Jewish organisation, Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed his 'deepest sympathies to the Chabad Lubavitch family and all those who mourn the deaths of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg." The Rabbi and his wife were killed by terrorists at Nariman House in Mumbai during the terror siege in November last year.
Modi also met Moshe's Indian nanny Sandra Samuels, who managed to escape with him from the Nariman House which came under attack by Pakistan-based LeT terrorists.
Dutt, along with about 200 'black cats' commandos, had boarded an IL-76 aircraft of the Aviation Research Centre (ARC) to fly the first batch of the counter-terrorist strike force to Mumbai soon after the western metropolis reported multiple shootouts and public killings in the night of November 26, 2008.
The Israeli diplomat also underlined that the objective of the attack was to cripple the Indian society, economy and culture, as well as the growing bilateral relationship between India and Israel.
When then ISI director Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha visited Washington, DC for a meeting with CIA Director Michael Hayden, he admitted that the planners of the Mumbai attacks included some 'retired Pakistani officers' and that the attackers had 'ISI links, but this had not been an authorised ISI operation.'
Here are the highlights from the Lashkar terrorist's deposition on Day 4.
Grandparents of Moshe Holtzberg, who survived the 26/11 carnage at the age of two, talk of how questions by the now 12-year-old boy only add to their grief.
Solomon Sopher, friend of the slain Holtzbergs, tells us of the condolence meeting held in memory of the couple on Monday morning.
Mumbai attack co-accused David Coleman Headley on Wednesday testified he had conducted a surveillance of the German Bakery in Pune and identified Chabad houses in Delhi, Pushkar and Pune as potential bombing targets.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley on Wednesday told a United States court that he had conducted a surveillance of the German Bakery in Pune and identified Chabad houses in Delhi, Pushkar and Pune which could be bombed.
Relatives of a Rabbi, who was gunned down along with his pregnant wife during the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, have filed a wrongful death suit against Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and Lashkar-e-Tayiba at a Brooklyn court. Rabbi Gavriel Noah Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were originally from Brooklyn, were killed when the attackers took over the Chabad Lubavitch centre at Nariman House in November 2008. They were slaughtered in front of their two-year-old son.
Oberoi hotel, one of the sites attacked during the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, was not originally on the list of targets for surveillance given to David Headley by his Inter Services Intelligence handler. But the Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative made a video of it after filming Chabad House as he had an hour to spare before he could catch a movie.This was revealed by the LeT operative in his testimony before a Chicago court during co-accused Tahawwur Rana's recently-concluded trial.
37-year-old Frumet Teitelbaum, an Israeli citizen, was stopped by US Customs and Border Protection agents at Kennedy Airport after flying in from Israel on February 5. Her husband Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, who was studying in the Chabad Center, was killed in the 26/11 strikes. Since her husband's death, Frumet, a religious-studies teacher, had been regularly traveling without problemsfrom her home in Israel to the US to visit her children in New York.
The director of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, and his wife Rivika are suspected to be among those being held hostage at its office in Nariman House, Colaba in South Mumbai, by terrorists since Wednesday night
Has India learned the right lessons from how it handled 26/11? How can the NSG be freed from the stranglehold of red tape? Will India end up repeating the same mistakes if another terror strike were to take place?
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livnitold told the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday that her ministry is working to bring Sandra Samuel to Israel. The toddler's parents -- Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and Rivika -- serving at the Chabad House or Nariman House in Mumbai as the emissaries of the Chabad movement were killed in the audacious attack.
The brutal killings of the New York-raised Gavriel and his wife Rivkah by terrorists, who had taken over the Nariman building in Mumbai, has plunged the Jewish community here into grief.
Here is how Headley became an 'international' terrorist from being a nondescript
Moshe's laughter rings in the home of the Rosenbergs, his maternal grandparents in Afula, Israel. Abhishek Mande Bhot listens in.
Both Major Iqbal and Major Pasha are shown as wanted accused in the charge sheet filed by the city police's crime branch in the case.
Five years after his arrest during the 26/11 strike on Mumbai and over a year after he was hanged to death after a much-publicised trial, Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist Ajmal Kasab continues to inspire myriad conspiracy theories.
Nine American and Israeli victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks have demanded a compensation of $688 million (around Rs 4,233 crore) from the Pakistan-based perpetrators of the terror assault, including Jammat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed.
'The attack killed 166 innocents, including six Americans. We will never let terrorists win, or even come close to winning!' he said.
Here are the revelations made by Headley so far in the deposition
