In pics: Moshe, 26/11 survivor, turns 3
Moshe Holtzberg, the son of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivkah who were killed in the 26/11 attacks, turns three. Moshe was rescued by his Indian nanny Sandra Samuel and is being raised in Israel by his grandparents.
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Moshe Holtzberg, the son of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivkah who were killed in the 26/11 attacks, turns three. He is seen here at his Halakah ceremony in Kfar Chabad near Tel Aviv in Israel. The Holtzbergs and four others were killed at Chabad House in Mumbai on November 28 last year. Moshe was rescued by his Indian nanny Sandra Samuel and is being raised in Israel by his grandparents.
Halakah is a Jewish tradition during which a child's hair is cut for the first time at the age of three. (AFP Photo) -
Snip. The first lock comes off as Jewish men begin to cut Moshe’s hair. Fond family looks on. The child, who suffered great tragedy at the age of two, appeared not to recall the horrors of a year ago. Nanny Sandra Samuel is still with him and says it took some time for the child to recover from the attack. Now he recognizes his parents in pictures, but he no longer cries out when he sees them. (AFP Photo)
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Much cheering and congratulating as another lock of hair is cut. Moshe, all of three, stands tall amid the adulation. A year ago, Moshe was at the besieged Jewish centre where his parents lay dead. When he cried out for his nanny Sandra Samuel, she ignored gunfire and grenade explosions, charged up the stairs and whisked the boy away from the motionless body of his mother, to safety. At Moshe’s Halakah Samuel says: "Everything is normal. It took a little bit of time, but now it's completely normal." (AP Photo)
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Moshe Holtzberg, seen here with his father Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg in happier times on a Mumbai beach. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg was an Orthodox Rabbi and a community leader for the local Jewish Indian community and led the Friday-night Shabbat services at the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue.(AFP Photo)