Naama and Eitam Henkin were buried on Har Hamenuchot in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem on Friday morning. Photo: Reemon Silverman, Tazpit News Agency.

Following the horrifying terror attack that took the lives of a couple from the Neria community in the West Bank on Thursday night, thousands of people came to pay their respects to the murdered parents.

Naama, 30, and Eitam Henkin, 31, were buried on Friday morning in Jerusalem. Their 9-year-old son Matan, fighting back tears, struggled to recite the mourner’s Kaddish prayer for his parents.

Matan and his siblings – Nitzan, 7, Netta, 4, and 4-month-old baby Itamar – witnessed the gunning down of their parents as they were driving near the Palestinian village of Beit Furik on Thursday between the Itamar and Elon Moreh communities in the Samaria region. The gunshots were fired from a moving Palestinian vehicle and the terrorists remain at large as of Friday.

“You should be eulogizing me and not the opposite, mother to her son,” said Rabbanit Chana Henkin, Eitam’s mother who made aliyah with her husband, Rabbi Yehuda Henkin, from the United States during the 1970s.

The grieving mother spoke of the appreciation she had for her son’s character and accomplishments in the world of Torah study and values. Eitam, who was a rabbi, had recently completed his second book on Jewish law related to the Sabbath, and was a prolific writer on Jewish history and Jewish law.

“You never complained about anything,” said Rabbanit Henkin, who is the founder and dean of the Nishmat Institute in Jerusalem for women, where her son taught. “Both you and Naama shared a great love between you.”

“The children were saved by a miracle,” she continued. “The 4-month-old baby will not remember his mother’s love, but I hope the rest of her children do. She was a very special and fragile woman; a wonderful mother.”

“I don’t understand G-d’s deliberations,” said Eitam’s father, Rabbi Yehuda Henkin in his eulogy.

Among the thousands of attendees at the couple’s funeral were Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and fellow residents from the Neria community in the Binyamin region where the Heinkin family lived. President Rivlin recounted how Naama, who owned a successful graphic design business, had recently written him a letter following the murder of Danny Gonen, who was killed in an earlier Palestinian terror attack in the Binyamin region in June.

“She signed the letter ‘from a citizen who cares,’” said President Rivlin. “I wrote Naama back… that we are responsible for our security and for the security of our citizens. I promised that I would continue to hug the victims of terror in homes where the light went out forever. I never imagined that in your home, the light would go out and that I, we, would hug your orphan kids.”

“She was such a talented person and a good friend,” Naama, a resident of Neria and a friend of the victim, told Tazpit. “We just celebrated her 30th birthday. How can something like this happen?”

“Will the country continue to be silent after this tragedy? What’s next? There are so many question marks and no answers,” Naama said. “We have every right to live here in security – we shouldn’t have to suffer like this.”

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro condemned the attack on Twitter saying: “We strongly condemn the murders of Eitam & Naama Henkin, z”l, which orphaned their children. Support efforts 2 bring terrorists 2 justice.” The U.S. ambassador also tweeted a message in Hebrew, stating that there were no words that could comfort the orphaned children.