Three of those killed were dual Israeli-US citizens. The fourth victim held dual Israeli-British citizenship.
Four Jewish worshippers were murdered this morning during a terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue. Terrorists entered the Kehillat Bnei Torah synagogue in Shimon Agassi Street in the Har Nof neighborhood of the city with axes and guns and set about slaughtering those present.
First reports say that four Jews were killed and eight more were injured, four of them seriously. Police quickly arrived on the scene and killed the terrorists in a shoot-out. Several of the injured were reportedly police.
Three of those killed were dual Israeli-US citiziens: Rabbi Moshe Twersky (59), Rabbi Kalman Levine (55), and Rabbi Arieh Kupinsky (43). The fourth victim Rabbi Abraham Goldberg (68) was a dual Israeli-British citizen.
The terrorists were cousins from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabl Mukaber.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on November 18, 2014
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Har Nof terror attack