Tuesday's early morning attack on worshippers at a Jerusalem synagogue has horrified people in Israel and abroad. Our guide in Beijing, Chen, e-mailed Nick: "It is very dangerous there and you are very old. You should come home at once." We had left Jerusalem over a week before the attack and were at Ein Gedi when it occurred, but the impact was felt all over the country. The young man from Avis at Eilat, who drove us to the Jordan border crossing, was talking about leaving the country. The attack took place less than a mile from Yad Vashem, the national memorial to the martyrs and heroes of the Holocaust. The most moving part of the site for us was the Children's Memorial, with tiny lights for each of the 2 million child victims, and voices intoning the names and ages of each murdered child.
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| Yad Vashem |
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| Children's Memorial, Yad Vashem |
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