Several thousand mourners attended the funerals here today of two of the five yeshiva students gunned down in a terrorist ambush in Hebron Friday night. The victims, Yaacov Zim###rman and Gerhson Klein, both of Bnei Brak, were buried in the military section of the Givat Shaul Cemetery.
Energy Minister Yitzhak Modai, representing the government, declared over the open groves: “We shall not abandon the land of our forefathers. We shall not yield to superpower pressure. We shall not be deterred by murderers.”
Rabbi Chaim Druckman of the National Religious Party, a leading supporter of the Gush Emunim, called for “revenge of the blood.” in a voice shaking with tears, he declared, “Those who perpetrated the Hebron massacre are planning the same for all of us here. Those who want to throw us out of Hebron actually mean to throw us out of the entire Israel. At the open grave we promise we shall not give them that. We shall remain in Hebron and we shall remain in all Eretz Israel.”
Army Chief Chaplain Gen. God Navon officiated at the funeral services which were held with full military honors.
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