Berliners signed a condolence book at ceremonies honoring the memories of Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
Some 200 people gathered Sunday at the Berlin Jewish community center on Fasanenstrasse to memorialize the Hezbollah captives whose bodies were returned to Israel last week in a swap deal with the Lebanese militia.
Jewish community president Lala Suesskind and Israel Embassy Deputy Ambassador Ilan Mor spoke. Rabbi Yitzhak Ehrenberg said the Kaddish memorial prayer.
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