Please say Tehillim for Gavriel Noach ben Freida Bluma, his wife Rivka bas Yehudis and their son Moshe Tzvi ben Rivka and anyone affected by the tragedy.
MUMBAI, India — Terrorists attacked multiple locations in Mumbai, India, late Wednesday night, with much of the gunfire occurring near the Chabad-Lubavitch center run by Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.
Search for Foreigners Mounts After Terrorists Strike Mumbai
Please say Tehillim for Gavriel Noach ben Freida Bluma, his wife Rivka bas Yehudis and their son Moshe Tzvi ben Rivka and anyone affected by the tragedy.
MUMBAI, India — Terrorists attacked multiple locations in Mumbai, India, late Wednesday night, with much of the gunfire occurring near the Chabad-Lubavitch center run by Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.
By 3:00 a.m. local time, police reports indicated at least 78 people were killed when gunmen affiliated with an unknown Islamic terrorist group entered a series of hotels, a central train station and other popular tourist sites and began firing. An initial police response was met by heavy resistance; at least three officers, including a top commander, are dead, according to IBN, the local CNN’s local sister station. Throughout the night, people reported explosions, which police attributed to grenades carried by the terrorists. More than 200 were injured.
Of particular concern to authorities is the report of two gunmen taking foreign tourists hostage at the five-star Oberoi Hotel. The Indian military was reportedly making preparations to take the hotel by force before daybreak. Another 100 tourists and three members of India’s parliament were holed up in the Taj Mahal Hotel.
One friend of Gavriel Holtzberg reported receiving an e-mail from the Mumbai rabbi at 11:30 p.m. local time, but no further contact has since been established. Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in New York and Israel are working alongside the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai and a volunteer team of local residents to ascertain the well being of the Holtzbergs and other Jews in the area.
People are urged to say Psalms for Gavriel Noach ben Freida Bluma and Rivka bas Yehudis, and anyone affected by the tragedy.
hashem yishmor
Hashem yishmor , I don’t believe a shliach of the rebbe can dissapear chas vishalom. Hashem is protecting.
b-soros tovos
please meditate on AIN OD MILVADO, there are stories about miracles escaping from danger when meditating on these words and their meaning.
chabadnik
the rebbe watches adn will watch his shluchim
animals
Tehillim of course but i really wish someone would blow their heads off-those terrorist animals.
Rochel
Is there an update on the Holtzbergs? Are they safe?
MENDY
according to foreign and indian news sources, the terrorist are in the chabad house also known as the NARIMAN HOUSE, they are holding every one there captive including the shaliach, please say tehillim
Dov Shabtai
IY”H the shluchim, missing Jews and lost civilians will be found and helped. Now is the time to increase our prayers, strengthen our kavanah and do more mitzvot!
JJ
this is terrible! nobody deserves to be victimized by terrorists, especially our shluchim.May g-d almighty protect the shluchim and rescue them safely.
debka
Six Israelis possibly among scores of Western hostages in Mumbai
November 27, 2008, 6:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
Taj Palace, Mumbai, under terrorist attack
The Israeli foreign ministry situation room has been unable to reach 5 Israeli families who were staying at the Chabad center in Mubai when al Qaeda gunmen staged coordinated attacks on 11 mostly tourist locations across the city Wednesday, Nov. 26. They left more than 100 dead and another 300 injured. CNN reported the bodies of two adults and a boy were found outside the Chabad center which has been seized by the terrorists who may be holding Israeli hostages. It is now surrounded by police and gunfire is heard from the building. Chabad’s Web site reports contact has been lost with the center’s manager Gavriel Holzberg.
Scores or hundreds of Western hostages, including Israelis, were herded in the Taj Palace and Oberoi hotels, parts of which are still on fire as police battle the gunmen reinforced by commando forces from India’s ground, sea and rapid deployment units. Some hostages may also be held in a hospital. A group of Israeli diamond merchants was staying at the Taj. The unknown Islamist group Deccan Mujahideen, believed to be al Qaeda, has taken responsibility for the attacks carried out with automatic Kalashnikov rifles, grenades and explosives. They reached the city in boats.
Among the 11 Indian police officers killed were three top officials, including Mumbai Police Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare. Terrorists have also died in the assault. The terrorists singled out British and American passport holders in attacking the hotels opposite the Gateway to India monument, a crowded railway terminus, the famous Leopold restaurant, a cinema and the St. George hospital which treats the city’s foreigners. One group shot up the hospital as injured victims were brought in. New Delhi has been placed on terror alert.
Dr. DDG
Have no fear Hashem is here!
Yid
sad :(