Thousands of mourners arrived at Har HaMenuchot cemetery in
Jerusalem on Wednesday morning to attend the funeral of the
victims in the shooting at a Jewish School in Toulouse, southwest
France, earlier this week. In attendance were French Foreign Minister
Alain Juppe, Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai and other members of the
Israeli government. Parliament speaker Reuven Rivlin said in his
eulogy: that the attack was inspired by "wild animals with hatred in
their hearts... Our hearts are with the Jews of France and with the
Ozar Hatorah institutions that took such a hard and painful blow. The
pain is
unimaginable, God is testing us." He also called on the French
government to do everything to ensure the safety of French Jews.
Before the funeral began, the family of the three victims, Rabbi
Jonathan Sandler and his two sons, aged six and three, gathered around
the coffins carrying the bodies of the victims, which arrived in
Israel on Wednesday.