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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: February 7, 2007 |
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The Jewish Agency will bring the remains of Ilan Halimi, a young Jew murdered last year in Paris in an anti-Semitic attack, to be reburied in a section of the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem this Friday.
The Jerusalem burial will take place on the first anniversary of his burial in France.
The 23-year old Halimi was brutally murdered on February 13, 2006, which was Tu B'Shvat, by a gang of Muslim immigrants. The kidnapping and murder of the youth created shock waves throughout the Jewish world particularly among the French Jewish community.
Chairman of the Jewish Agency Zeev Bielski said, "The reburial of Ilan Halimi in Israel is the closing of a Zionist circle. The family's decision to tie their fate with the State of Israel, especially in such tragic circumstances, is a message clearly felt, one which expresses the unity of the Jewish People."
Ynetnews contributed to this article. |
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