ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (FOX 9) – The Jewish community gathered in St. Louis Park Wednesday evening to commemorate the six hostages found dead in Gaza last weekend.
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The service, held on a field at the Sabes Center, included prayers, songs and prepared addresses from community members and clergy.
According to Israel, the hostages, including 23-year-old Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, were shot dead in a tunnel by Hamas militants shortly before the arrival of Israeli troops.
“There are so many connections,” said Rabbi Alexander Davis of Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park. “Everyone is basically one degree removed from someone who is a hostage or a family member of a hostage. I myself — my sister-in-law — went to school with Rachel Goldberg.”
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Rob Kahn, a former senior rabbi at Beth El Synagogue, is also friends with the Goldberg-Polins. His family attends the same congregation they do in Jerusalem.
The other hostages who died were Eden Yerushalmi, 24; Ori Danino, 25; Alexander Lobanov, 32; Carmel Hole, 40; and Almog Sarusi, 27.
