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Toulouse Victim's Wife Lights Candle at Yom Hazikaron Event

By Jspace Staff on 4/26/2012 at 3:16 PM

Categories: Religion, World, Israel

Toulouse Victim's Wife Lights Candle at Yom Hazikaron Event

The wife and mother of three victims from the Toulouse shooting last month lit a candle yesterday during a ceremony for Israeli Memorial Day. Eva Sandler, who lost her husband Jonathan and two young sons during the French day school attack, honored her family and others killed in anti-Semitic acts, at the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. "When enemies attack a Jewish center in Buenos Aires or a Jewish school in Toulouse, it is also our war," Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency, said during the ceremony. "It …More