Jews Killed in Terros Attack will be Buried in Jerusalem Today

The four Jewish hostages killed in Friday’s terror attack at a Paris kosher supermarket – Yohav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Philippe Braham and Francois-Michel Saada – will be buried at noon today at the Har Hamenuhot cemetary in Jerusalem “according to the Jerusalem Post.”

Cohen, 22, who had worked at Hyper Cacher for a year, was reported to have been killed trying to stop the terrorist,ISIS loyalist Amedy Coulibaly, from killing a 3-year-old boy. Ynet reported that Cohen’s cousin Yonatan, said,”The police told the family the terrorist threatened to kill a 3-year-old boy, and Yohan tried to stop it.He managed to grab the terrorist’s weapon but before Yohan had a chance to shoot him, the terrorist put a bullet in his head and killed him on the spot.”

Hattab, 21, a student in Paris who had just returned from a Birthright tour to Israel, was the son of Betto Hattab, the rabbi of La Grand synahogue in Tunis. Braham,45, a computer engineer, is survived by his wife and four children.
Saada, 64. a pension fund manager, was the father of two children, both living in Israel.

The funeral will be attended by President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Knesset opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog, and other ministers, Knesset members and public figurs.

Meanwhile, 4,700 extra police officers are protecting French Jewish sites, in addition to the nearly 10,000 extra soldiers being deployed on home soil by today, following the killing of people by Islamist militants in Paris last week, officials said.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the 4,700 police officers would be placed at all 717 Jewish schools across the country in addition to some 4,100 gendarmes already deployed.

“Synagogues, Jewish schools, but also mosques will be protected because in the past few days there have been a number of attackes against mosques,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls said.

Speaking a day after the biggest French public demonstration ever recorded, in honor of the victims, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the country remained at risk of further attacks. Soldiers would guard transport hubs, tourism sites and key buildings and mount general street patrols.

“The threats remain and we have to protect ourselves from them. It is an internal operation that will mobilize almost as many men as we have in our overses operatoins,” Le Drian told reporters after a cabinet meeting.

Netanyahu

Yesterday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Hyper Cacher. “There I met Celine, who was one of the hostages and who told me what happened during the terror attack,” Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page after the visit.

“A straight line runs between extreamist Islam’s attacks around the world and the attack that took place here,” Netanyahu wrote. “I expect all leaders, after we marched together through the streets of Paris, to fight all forms of terror, even when it is directed at Israel and at Jews. As far as I’m concerned, I will always make sure that Israel marches in the frontline…when it comes to security and future.”

Earlier Yesterday, Netanyahu met with Jewish leaders and told them how moved he was to meet the bereaved families a day earlier.”I told them I understand their feelings and that the Israeli people embrace the bereaved families. It was a moment of true Jewish solidarity,” he said.

Netanyahu said the image of the prime minister of Israel marching against terrorism alongside world leaders carries much significance.”This is something the State of israel has been saying for many years,”he said, “with one simple addition: If the world does’t unite now against terrorism, the terror attacks we experienced here will grow to dimentions that people can’t imagine. Therefore I hope Europe unites,and I hope it comes to its senses.” Netanyahu added that “Israel supports Europe in its fight against terrorism, and it’s time Europe supports Israel in the same exact struggle.”

Solidarity

“The visit in Paris is also a moment of human solidarity,” Netanyahu said.” From the moment the security problem was solved and I was able to come here,it was natural for me to come,it was imporatant,” he added, reffering to the last-minute decision to attend the mass after considerable wavering.

The prime minister marched in Sunday’s rally alongside Boubacar Keita,and at the side of French President Francoise Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, among other world leaders.

Following the march, Netanyahu attended a memorial event at Paris’ main synagogue.

He told the crowd at the synagogue that Israel and Jews around the world stand by France and the French people. At the service, he thanked France’s president and prime minister for their stance against anti – Semitism, and conveyed his condolences to the families of the victims of the attacks.

Netanyahu also thanked the French security services, and expressed special appreciation for Lassana Bathily, a Muslim from Mali who helped save several customers during the attack on the kosher supermarket.

Conflict

It was revealed late Sunday that Hollande asked Netanyahu not to attend the memorial march, in an attempt to separate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the European show of unity,”The Jerusalem Post writes.”

Monday morning armed soldiers congregated outside the schools belonging to the Paris ecole Sinai network run by Rabbi Yosef Pevzner.

“Normally it’s people in prison who are sorrounded by soldiers and now it feels like we are in prison,” he told The Jerusalem Post in the response to the army’s deployment at not only his school,but at every Jewish educational institution throughout France.

The government mobilizes the army only days after Islamist gunman shocked the world by killing seventeen people in attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a subsequent hostage taking at the Hyper Cacher kosher market.