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Showing posts with label Rabbi Michael Miki Mark. Show all posts
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Terror victim's daughter: 'With your last breath you tried to save us’
“My heart is shattered in pieces,” said son Joshua as he looked out at the tens of thousands of mourners.
Rabbi Michael “Miki” Mark died trying to save the lives of his wife and two children, his daughter Tehila recalled as she eulogized her father Sunday afternoon.
“With your last breath you didn’t defend yourself, you tried to save us,” she said.
Tehila told the thousands of mourners about Friday’s terrorist attack in which Palestinian gunmen killed her father. She was in the car at the time of the attack, along with her mother, Chava, and her younger brother Phedia.
Tehila was shot in the stomach, but released briefly from the Hadassah-University Medical Center in Ein Kerem so she could attend part of the funeral at the Har Hamenuhot cemetery in Jerusalem.
A ceremony also had been held earlier in the day in the West Bank settlement of Otniel.
An ambulance brought Tehila to the cemetery, where she sat on a gurney under a tent by her father’s shroud-covered body.
She lacked the strength to read the eulogy out loud, so her aunt, Yochai Kalmanzon, sat by her side and read her words for her.
“Everything looks like a dream, a bad movie,” her aunt read. “It is not logical that my brave smart father has gone and will not return. I saw you in your last moments. When I heard the shots I ducked, so did mother and so Phedia, but you didn’t. You did not leave the helm.”
Mark’s daughter Shira said he was killed in a holy moment, when he was dressed in white right before the Sabbath.
“You studied Torah every day,” said Shira, as she recalled how deeply spiritual her father had been.
“At least I know that I told you every day how much I loved you. I understand God, for wanting you by his side,” she said.
At the time of the attack, Mark, a father of 10, had been on his way to his mother’s home for the Sabbath and to help celebrate her 80th birthday.
Earlier on Sunday, in the Otniel Yeshiva where Mark had been the director-general, mourners filled the sanctuary and study hall. They sang traditional mournful Jewish songs and prayers as Mark’s body was carried into the sanctuary and placed on a table.
“I’m drowning in the depth of your absence,” his son Joshua said, in a voice choked with tears. He wore a red shirt already torn, marking his mourning.
“My heart is shattered in pieces,” said Joshua. “God took what he wants and now what should we do, whom do we curse?” he asked.
Family of Rabbi Mark Mark’s daughter Orit began her eulogy by crying, repeating over and over again, “Father, I love you.”
She recalled how only recently he had hugged her and swore to her that he would never leave her.
“And now God has taken you,” she said. “You added so much goodness into the world. You did so much for others and for us. You gave us everything we wanted with a full heart. You accepted us as we were. You never abandoned us, even when we did something wrong. Now we are here and you are absent.”
President Reuven Rivlin said at the funeral: “Jewish blood is not worthless. We promise – over Miki’s grave – that we will continue to fight terrorism unequivocally, and without fear. We will fight, and we will win. The IDF and the security forces will cut down the accursed murderers who killed Miki. Nothing will cure the pain. But the light of the way that Miki paved will not be extinguished. May his memory be blessed, and may his soul be bound in eternal life.”
Mark’s body was carried out of the yeshiva to slow mournful singing of the prayer, “God of mercy.”אל מלא רחמים
As the funeral procession made its way along Route 60 to Jerusalem’s Har Hamenuhot cemetery for burial, Mark’s family stopped to say the prayer for the dead at the spot where the attack occurred. Settlers from the Jewish communities along the road stood along the highway waving Israeli flags.
The IDF had soldiers positioned all along the road, and closed off the entrances to the Palestinian villages as the funeral procession passed.
Unable to access the road, the Palestinians stood watching the slow funeral procession.
Rabbizin Chava Mark, remained at Hadassah-University Medical Center in Ein Kerem, and was not at the funeral. She was unconscious from the time of the attack until Sunday afternoon, when she woke up. She was listed in serious but stable condition.
Israeli Cabinet Approves ‘ very aggressive steps’’ in wake of the multiple terrorist attacks in the Hebron area including cordoning off Hebron; all relatives of attackers to be investigated in future; bodies of terrorists will not be returned but will be buried in a special cemetery ;large building expansion approved in East Jerusalem, Maale Adumim, Kiryat Arba and elsewhere in the Shomron and Yehuda, Zahal deploys two full Combat Brigades to the Area. 2800 work permits cancelled from the village near Hebron where the terrorists came from. All others work permits from the Hebron Area will be reviewed
IDF raid in Hebron.
Israel is using “aggressive measures” against terrorism that it has not used in the past, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the cabinet on Sunday, hours after his security cabinet decided on a series of steps aimed at tamping down the recent uptick in attacks.
Among these measures, he said, are the cordoning off the Hebron region, home to 700,000 people; denial of work permits for residents of Bani Na'im, the village near Hebron where six terrorists have come from; a massive deployment of IDF forces in the region, with a focus on securing the roads; and automatically investigating family members of the Muhammad Taraireh, the murderer of 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel in Kiryat Arba last week, and “arresting them in accordance with the level of their involvement.”
The sister of Taraireh was arrested over the weekend on charges of incitement stemming from remarks she made in the past in the Palestinian media.
Netanyahu also said that the cabinet next week would discuss a “special program” to strengthen Kiryat Arba. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, in response to the Kiryat Arba attack, decided even before the meeting to market 42 new housing units in the neighborhood near the Ariel home, in the Givat Harsina neighborhood.
Netanyahu said that he directed his ministers to “combine measures in all ministries to help communities in Judea and Samaria.”
Sunday's meeting was delayed some 90 minutes, because a special security cabinet meeting the night before lasted more than four hours, and extend until after 2:00 am. The decision Netanyahu spelled out to his ministers were decided there. The security cabinet also decided to subtract from the money Israel transfers to the PA every month the sum the PA pays to terrorists and their families, and to set up a cemetery for terrorists, a move advocated by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, who has come out against giving the bodies of terrorists to their families for burial. A sharp disagreement erupted in the cabinet between Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Liberman, with Liberman at one point reportedly telling IDF officers not to answer Bennet's questions. Bennett repeatedly drilled the IDF officers about claims that the the family members of terrorists have been brought to trial on incitement charges.
Before the cabinet meeting, Construction Minister Yoav Gallant -- a member of the security cabinet -- described the measures taken as 'localized” and “responsible.”
Gallant said that Israel is in the midst of 100-year struggle with terrorism, “and I think we will know how to get to every one of the murderers and pull them from their beds and bring them either to prison or to the cemetery.”
He slammed Bennett for the latter's criticism of the security cabinet, saying that it is unacceptable for one member of the 10-person body to attack it.
Another security cabinet member, Yuval Steinitz, told Israel Radio that a measure to automatically investigate family members, including for the possibility that they engaged in incitement in either the social media or traditional media, could have an impact. “If the murderer will know that his parents and siblings may be sent to prison because of incitement that in many cases can be found against them, I think it will create a deterrent,” he said.
Meanwhile, the IDF Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, banned Hebron Governor Kamal Khamid from entering Israel on Sunday, after the latter visited the relatives of Taraireh.
"Supporting terrorism has many expressions, a message on the the IDF's COGAT Facebook account read. "Yesterday, the Governor of Hebron...
visited the families of the relatives from Bani Na’im. Visiting the families is agreeing to despicable murder and encourages terrorism.
What is the message? Is the Hebron governor expressing support for the murderer of a 13-year-old girl? We expect the Palestinian leadership to take responsibility, and call for calm and tolerance," the message continued.
"Israel will not help those who support terrorism," it said, adding that Khamid's entry permit to Israel had been revoked.
