It now appears that Rivka Holtzberg HY?D was not covered with a tallis when her body was recovered in the Mumbai Chabad House as was previously believed.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, teary-eyed, spoke of the event at the opening of this week�s cabinet meeting. The news of Rebbitzin Rivka wrapped in a tallis, presumably by Rav Gavriel, rapidly spread around the world.
According to a Haaretz report however, quoting official sources, Israeli diplomatic officials and the rescuers on the scene did not see that she was covered in a tallis, or any of the other victims for that matter. It appears the source of the story was one of the Zaka team in Mumbai, who was in touch with people abroad, using his cellular telephone.
According to IDF attach� to India, Colonel Yossi Turjeman, the rumor began to emerge as a result of the efforts of the local Jewish physician who was assisting, tending to one of the bodies in a Mumbai hospital. The physician, wishing to honor the victim, covered the body with a tallis in the hospital morgue. An Israeli diplomatic source quoted by Haaretz stated that reports that one of the hostages managed to cover a body with a tallis has been ruled out beyond the shadow of a doubt.
(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)
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