Hersh Goldberg-Polin's funeral is being held Monday in Jerusalem.
Monday, September 2, 2024 1:37PMHersh Goldberg-Polin's funeral is being held Monday in Jerusalem.Goldberg-Polin was among six hostages found murdered over the weekend in a Hamas-controlled underground tunnel in Gaza."We believed that this would end differently," said Rabbi Zvi Engel of the Congregation Or Torah in Skokie. "We hoped. In this very hall, we prayed."Rabbi Engel is among many mourning the death Goldberg-Polin.
"She said that she was really focused on trying to make sure that they could make it to Jerusalem, to pay their respects, to be together as a family," Engle said. "We know his whole family. We know the cousins. We know everybody. We're all very close with each other." Goldber-Polin, a native of Berkeley, California, lost part of his left arm to a grenade in the Oct. 7 attack. In April, a Hamas-issued video showed him, his left hand missing and clearly speaking under duress, sparking new protests in Israel at the time, urging the government to do more to secure his and others' freedom.Related Topics
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