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Terror Victim’s Funeral Highlights Longtime Bond Between Chabad and IDF

After Meir Tamari, a 32-year-old father of two young children, was killed in a terrorist attack outside of Hermesh, a town in northern Samaria, it was not at all unusual for hundreds of mourners to turn out for his funeral. What stood out at Tamari’s funeral, though, was the large presence of two identifiable groups who shared their mourning with the victim’s family and each other: men and women from the Chabad-Lubavitch community around Israel, and veterans of the Israel Defense Forces.

Maui Fire Survivors Tell of Chabad’s Help

With the help of Rabbi Mendy Krasnjansky, co-director of Chabad of Maui, Sarfati, a native of Israel, and a group of 30 friends fled the island on Friday and made their way to Honolulu, where they had Shabbat dinner and lunch with the rabbi’s parents, Rabbi Itchel and Perel Krasnjansky, directors of Chabad of Hawaii.