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Terror Victim One of 200 Olim on Way to
Israel
18:53 Sep 06, '05 / 2 Elul
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By Tzvi Ben
Gedalyahu
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Wednesday's sixth Nefesh B'Nefesh
flight this summer includes a victim of Arab terror and a New
York couple celebrating a post-wedding festival meal on the
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More than 200 new immigrants are
scheduled to land at Ben Gurion Airport Wednesday afternoon.
One more flight of new immigrants (olim) is planned in
December, bringing this year's number of North American olim
to 3200.
Chicago-born Tuvia Grossman, 25, said his
moving to Israel is a way of showing how a small country can
stand up against terror. He was one of the first terror
victims in the Oslo War which broke out in September, 2000 the
day before Grossman was brutally attacked. He was riding in a
cab with two friends to pray at the Western Wall Friday
afternoon before the beginning of the Jewish New Year (Rosh
HaShanah).
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| Grossman, attacked by
Arabs in Sept. 2000, makes aliyah
Wednesday |
A mob of Arabs stopped
the vehicle with a barrage of rock throwing near the Lions
Gate which leads to the Temple Mount. His friends jumped out
of the car and escaped, but Grossman was dragged out by the
mob and severely beaten and stabbed. "I understood they had
one objective--to murder me in cold blood because I am a Jew
in the Holy Land," Grossman said. As the terrorists tried to
kill him, he said "Kriyat Shema," the prayer Jews recite when
faced with death, and the recital apparently stunned the mob
momentarily and allowed him to flee, with a knife stuck in his
leg.
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| Picture and caption as
they originally appeared in New York Times. |
| International attention on
the attack was intensified after the New York Times and other
newspapers published an Associated Press picture of the
wounded and bleeding terror victim. Standing behind him in the
picture was an angry Israeli policeman with a club in his
hand. The caption of the picture which read, "An Israeli
policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount," clearly
implied that the Jewish victim was a Palestinian beaten by
Israelis.
Arutz Sheva English radio interviewed Tuvia
who said, "That policeman was yelling at the Arabs to back
off, and was protecting me from them - so to change it around
and to say that he was beating me, that's just total
distortion, and the world must be notified about how this is
not true - the Jews are the ones suffering at the hands of the
Arabs."
Arutz Sheva radio proceeded to interview both
the New York Times and the Associated Press. Hear
all three radio interviews as they were presented on one
of the classic shows of the station's
history.
Grossman, a law school graduate, plans to live
in Tel Aviv and work as a clerk for the Supreme Court while
preparing to pass examinations to practice as a lawyer in
Israel.
Joy Langer and her new husband Jeremy
Jutkowitz are planning to celebrate on the plane a festive
meal as part of the seven-day "Sheva Berachot" (literally:
Seven Blessings) celebrations which follow a Jewish wedding.
The New Yorkers were married last Monday and will live in
Jerusalem. Jutkowitz already is an oleh and now brings with
him his new wife from the Diaspora.
Foreign Ministry
and Jerusalem municipality officials and Rehovot Chief Rabbi
Simcha HaCohen Kook plan to welcome the newcomers at the
airport.
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Published: 16:28 September 06,
2005
Last Update: 18:53 September 06, 2005 |
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