Anat Shalev – YNET News
The two-year-old son of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka is asking about the whereabouts of his parents, his nanny told Ynet. The Chabad emissaries to Mumbai were taken hostage in the city’s Chabad house, and authorities fear for their lives.
The nanny, Sandra Samuel, is a local who had been living with the family. She and the toddler are currently staying in the Israeli Consulate in Mumbai. “The baby is okay, but I have no idea about the couple. Nobody told us anything,” she said.
“In the evening his mother always puts him to sleep and now he doesn’t understand what’s going on,” she added. Regarding the attack on the Chabad house she said, “It was terrible, there were explosions everywhere, gunfire – they tried to shoot me.”
The Foreign Ministry still lacks information about the Israeli hostages still trapped inside the house, but authorities fear for their lives. Earlier reports stated that eight hostages were released, but four remained “unconscious” inside.
Ehud Raz, the senior security officer at the Israeli Embassy in Mumbai, told Ynet that “the boy wasn’t upset, I’m not sure he understood what was going on. The incident took place mostly on the second floor of the Chabad house. The boy and the nanny were on the first floor so they managed to get out.”
BS”D
I can’t belive that this is happening… and right after the Kinnus. I know that in situations like this we cannot ask “Where was Hashem” because Hashem is everywhere… But, the Rebbe promised to protect all those who do his Shlichus! These people put themselves on the line, they put their whole beeings into the Rebbe’s work. They lived their lives for fellow yidden. The many simchas they had in that Chabad House, the many lives they saved… (*sob*)- it’s just unfathomable! HASHEM! TATTEH!
Oy… Rebbe!
WE NEED MASHIACH NOW!
this is really heartbreaking.
This is awful, May Hashem bring them out of their misery!!
In addition to Tehillim perhaps 3 Rabonim should get together and make a din Torah and pasken that Hashem must return these shluchim to their missions in perfect health, immediately with no further scares like this.
everyone say tehillim! For his sake! May we hear good news about his parents.
I am crying for this little boy.