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Assisted by Rabbi Menachem Kutner, right, of the Chabad Terror Victims Project, Mayor Meir Cohen of Dimona, Israel, writes a letter in a Torah scroll to be dedicated to Israeli victims of terror.

DIMONA, Israel — One week after a suicide bombing in the central Negev desert town of Dimona, Israel, claimed the life a Russian immigrant and seriously injured her husband, Chabad-Lubavitch of Dimona and the municipality held a ceremony near the site of the tragedy.

Dimona Holds Vigil at Site of Suicide Bombing

Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Assisted by Rabbi Menachem Kutner, right, of the Chabad Terror Victims Project, Mayor Meir Cohen of Dimona, Israel, writes a letter in a Torah scroll to be dedicated to Israeli victims of terror.

DIMONA, Israel — One week after a suicide bombing in the central Negev desert town of Dimona, Israel, claimed the life a Russian immigrant and seriously injured her husband, Chabad-Lubavitch of Dimona and the municipality held a ceremony near the site of the tragedy.

In the hours after the Feb. 4 bombing, officials acknowledged that thanks to the quick thinking of a policeman ñ who shot dead a second bomber before he could detonate his explosive belt ñ things could have been much worse.

Hundreds of locals, some of them witnesses of the attack, came to the assembly, which was intended, in the words of Rabbi Yisroel Gellis, “to thank G-d for those who survived, and to strengthen and support each other.” Many of the injured and their family members lined up to write a letter in a Torah scroll that will be dedicated to victims of terror attacks by the Chabad Terror Victims Project, directed by Rabbi Menachem Kutner.

Gellis, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Dimona, was hanging a new sign to the Chabad House just meters away from the shopping center when the bomber struck. Along with his assistant, Rabbi Nissim Chamo, Gellis rushed over to the site of the attack, and after seeing what he could do to help, set up a table for shaken witnesses and emergency responders to put on tefillin.

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