Jerusalem – Jerusalem Synagogue Dead Identified As U.S. And British Citizens

Jerusalem – The names of the four victims of the terror attack at a synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof were released on Tuesday.

Rabbi Aryeh Kopinsky, 43, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 58, and Rabbi Calman Levine, 50, all from the Har Nof neighborhood were identified along with Rabbi Moshe Twersky, 59, as victims murdered by two Palestinian terrorists.

Along with Twersky who was a US-Israeli citizen, CNN reported that two other victims also held dual American-Israeli citizenship. The UK confirmed that a dual British-Israeli national was also among the four.

Funerals for the four were to be held Tuesday afternoon.

Kopinsky’s death marked a further tragedy for his family as his daughter died three years ago in sudden circumstances.

Levine leaves behind five children and nine grandchildren.

Twersky, originally from Boston, was the dean of the English-speaking Torat Moshe yeshiva and the first victim of the attack to be named.

Twersky was the elder son of 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 “Kehilat Yaakov” synagogue where the terror attack was carried out.