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Mumbai Chabad Center Marking 10th Anniversary of 11/26 Attacks With Renaming Ceremony

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Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky points to a poster showing how a room at the Nariman House will look like after its renovation, Nov. 25, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Francis Mascarenhas.

Monday is the tenth anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, and the event is being marked with a renaming ceremony at the Chabad center that was one of the targets.

On November 26, 2008, ten terrorists from the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group entered Mumbai by sea and launched a coordinated gun-and-bomb assault on multiple sites in India’s most populous metropolis, killing 166 people — including six Jews at the Nariman House.

A decade after the carnage, the Chabad center is being renovated, and the fifth floor — where the murdered Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg lived with their two-year-old son Moshe (who survived the attack, thanks to the heroism of his nanny, Sandra Samuel) — is to be named the “Nariman Lighthouse” and serve as a memorial to the victims of the Mumbai attacks.

“We hope that viewing this will teach visitors the power of adding light,” Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky — the current head of the Nariman House — told Lubavitch.com. “We want to create waves of good that will spread until the whole world is filled with it.”

This past January, Moshe Holtzberg — who now lives in Israel — returned to the Nariman House for a visit, accompanied by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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