WJC President Ronald S. Lauder speaks on France 24 about the Toulouse killings and a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, 20 March 2012
Chief Rabbi Amar: We Cry but Are Strong
“We cry but are strong,” said a weeping Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar at the funerals for the victims of the Toulouse murders.
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
First Publish: 3/21/2012, 11:09 AM
Mother of murdered 8-year-old girl at funeral
Reuters
“We cry but are strong. We will not let them break us,” said a weeping Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar at the funerals for the victims of the murders of a rabbi and three young children in Toulouse Tuesday.
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger told the surviving family members, “The People of Israel know how to appreciate your Zionism. I call on the French Foreign Minister, who is with us now, to increase security in all schools and do what ever has to be done" against criminals such as the Al Qaeda terrorist who carried out the murders.
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said, "The entire Israeli nation mourns the murder…Anyone trying to justify hate must know that hate is senseless. The murder of the school children in Toulouse was senseless, as was the massacre of infants in Itamar," he said, referring to the brutal murders of five members of the Fogel family last year.
He called those who terrorize Jews "wild animals,” regardless of where they live.
Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, representing the government, said he had no words that could comfort the survivors except that “all of Israel embraces you today.”
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger told the surviving family members, “The People of Israel know how to appreciate your Zionism. I call on the French Foreign Minister, who is with us now, to increase security in all schools and do what ever has to be done" against criminals such as the Al Qaeda terrorist who carried out the murders.
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said, "The entire Israeli nation mourns the murder…Anyone trying to justify hate must know that hate is senseless. The murder of the school children in Toulouse was senseless, as was the massacre of infants in Itamar," he said, referring to the brutal murders of five members of the Fogel family last year.
He called those who terrorize Jews "wild animals,” regardless of where they live.
Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, representing the government, said he had no words that could comfort the survivors except that “all of Israel embraces you today.”