Shas party leader was among the many state officials that traveled to the Ohr Yehuda home of slain border policewoman Hadar Cohen HY”D, where her parents and family are sitting shiva. Hadar was critically wounded in a Palestinian terror attack at Shar Shechem. She was shot in her head during an attack.

Deri listened attentively as Mr. Ofir Cohen, her father, told how she died heroically and how she managed to neutralize one of the terrorists before collapsing. Deri promised to assist the family in their effort to establish a shul in her memory.

The mayor of Ohr Yehuda has promised to give the family a plot of land to use for the shul and Deri asked Israel Border Police Commander Yaakov Shabtai to declare this shul the official shul of the border police.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Photo: Media Resource Group)