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World Jewish News
Sister of Rivka Holzberg, Killed in the Mumbai Terrorist Act, Will Rebuild Beit-Chabad
24.02.2009
The younger sister of Rivka Holzberg, who died three months ago during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, went to India to continue the business of her family. She went to Mumbai with her husband Jacob Leiter and two children.
According to the Yedioth Aharonoth newspaper, the decision to rebuild the destroyed building of Beit-Chabad belongs to the father of young women, Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg. He told the journalists that every day various people call him and ask whether the Beit Chabad in Mumbai will be opened.
According to him, every year tens of thousands of tourists and businessmen stayed at Chabad Center. In Beit-Chabad there was a synagogue, a room for guests, a dining room and a large Internet cafe. Jews from all over the world, having arrived in Mumbai, felt at home in the Center.
Sarale Leiter and her husband decided that they would "try" to carry out their mission. If they feel that they cannot cope with the task entrusted to them, they will be able to go back home in three months. But Shimon Rosenberg is confident of his daughter, and he is sure that the tragedy will not happen again.
We remind you that on November 26, the business capital of India, Mumbai suffered a terrorist attack. The group of fighters seized several large hotels, as well as the Chabad Center. After the liberation of the building, seven bodies were found, six of which had belonged to the citizens of Israel. Among the dead was a 28-year-old Rabbi Gabriel Holzberg and his wife, Rivka. Their son, two-year-old Moshe, was taken out of the seized building by his nanny, a citizen of India Sanda Samuel. At the invitation of Rivka's parents, she came to Israel together with the boy.
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