Agudath Israel of America Statement on the Massacre in Har Nof

This morning's barbaric murder in Har Nof, Jerusalem of four Jews has left all caring people reeling - the tears are pouring this morning and our hearts are full of pain. 

 

This vicious attack on people wearing tallis and tefillin and immersed in tefilla is ugly testimony to the depth of evil faced by Jews in Israel and the world over, in the form of brutal terrorists who revel in the killing of innocents.  The celebration of the murders in Gaza and elsewhere reiterates the despicable nature of those who wish the Holy Land to be Judenrein.   When cold-blooded murderers attack a makom Torah u'Tefila in the Eretz Ha'kodesh, it is incumbent upon all of us to strengthen ourselves in Torah and Tefila on behalf of our dear brethren in the Eretz Ha'kodesh. Imahem anachnu b'tzara.   We are mispallel that those who were injured in this brutal attack  have a refuah shlaimah.  Our hearts go out to the families, particularly the almanos and the 26 innocent yesomim who lost their fathers - true kedoshim, holy men killed because they were Jews, who died with Jewish prayers on their lips. May the families of the murdered, Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Hy"d, Rabbi Kalman Levine, Hy"d; Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky, Hy"d, and Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, Hy"d, be comforted amid the mourners of Tzion v'Yrushalayim.