Hundreds of people attended a memorial service yesterday for David Kohane, 15, who was killed by a terrorist bomb last month in Antwerp. The ceremony was held to mark the 30th day of his death, and the boy’s father recited kodish in the presence of senior government officials, representatives of the Israel Embassy and members of the Belgian Jewish community.
Two of the children wounded during the attack in front of an Agudat Israel Community Center, are still in the Hospital, but are no longer on the danger list. Itzhak Abrahamowitz, 14, has already undergone two operations and doctors plan a third in the hope of saving his sight. Joshua Erblich, 13, who suffered severe head injuries, will be hospitalized for several more months. Doctors who examined him after the bomb explosion said that close to 40 pieces of schropnel appeared to have entered his brain.
During the attack close to 20 children and adults, mainly Orthodox Jews, who are members of Agudat Israel, were wounded as they stood near a bus that was about to take them to a summer camp.
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