Jerusalem – Yeshiva Head Named As One Of Four Victims In Jerusalem Synagogue Attack

Jerusalem – One of the four victims in Tuesday’s deadly terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue was the leader of a local yeshiva.

Rabbi Moshe Twersky, the 60-year-old dean of the English-speaking Torat Moshe yeshiva, was the first victim of the attack to be named.

His funeral was scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Givat Shaul cemetery in the capital.

Twersky was the elder son of the renowned rabbi and author Rabbi Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky of Boston, and a grandson of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, one of the principle philosophers and founders of the Modern Orthodox movement.

Moshe Twersky lived in the Har Nof neighborhood close to the Bnei Torah synagogue where the terror attack was carried out.

Eight other people were wounded in the attack, including two police officers.

According to police, the two suspected Palestinian terrorists, armed with a gun and axes, attacked worshipers after entering the “Kehilat Yaakov” synagogue on Agasi Street in the capital’s Har Nof neighborhood. Two police officers quickly arrived to the scene and exchanged fire with the suspects, killing them.

Palestinian sources reported that the two suspects from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukabaer were cousins.

The attack marks the latest incident in a flare of violence that has surged over the past few weeks in Jerusalem.

Israeli leaders have condemned Tuesday’s deadly attack as have Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State John Kerry.

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