Norma Rabinovitch-Shvarzblat was planning to make aliyah to Israel on Monday. The 49-year-old member of the Mexico Jewish community was volunteering during recent months in the Mumbai Chabad House.
This week, Mrs. Rabinowitz was planning to move to Eretz Yisrael to join her son and his family, who live in Bnei Brak. It was Norma who phoned Israeli consular officials in Delhi on Thursday, with a gun pointed to her head. She told consular officials there were four bodies, including Rabbi and Mrs. Holtzberg.
Because she is a Mexican national, a request was made via Interpol to inform her son and family in Eretz Yisrael as well as family members in Mexico.
Foreign Ministry and consular officials have located her son in Bnei Brak, Israel.
The Levaya is scheduled to take place sometime on Monday. Exact details will be posted.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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4 Responses
Norma Schvartzblatt’s son is a young sixteen or seventeen year old boy that is studying in Israel.
She also has two daughters.
Where will they have the levaya?
Hamakom yenachem eschem… May Hashem comfort your children, Norma. May Hashem avenge your blood. No words can describe the sorrow we feel for your surviving family and the horror you suffered.
she has a brother in lakewood too
3, so it’s Shvarzblat-Rabinovitch then?