[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 40 (Monday, March 10, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E340]
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             SEVEN KILLED IN SHOOTING AT JERUSALEM SEMINARY

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                         HON. YVETTE D. CLARKE

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 10, 2008

  Ms. CLARKE. Madam Speaker, last Thursday was a tragic day in 
Jerusalem. An ``act of terror and depravity'' as Secretary Rice defined 
it, took the lives of eight young students, while gathering to have 
dinner.
  At 8:45 pm, Thursday night, two terrorists infiltrated to a Jewish 
seminary in Jerusalem and opened fire in a dining hall. The shooting 
was continuing for a few minutes until police forces arrived and the 
gunmen were stopped. Eight students were killed and seven others were 
wounded and are still hospitalized.
  Mercaz Harav Seminary is a center for studying of Judaism that is 
located in Kiryat Moshe quarter at the entrance of the city. The 
seminary holds around 500 students, including foreigners, some of them 
Americans. In this specific evening there were about 80 people in the 
dining hall when the gunmen opened fire.
  The victims are Neria Cohen, 15 years old; Segev Paniel Avihail, 15 
years old; Yehonathan Ytzchak Eldar, 16 years old; Avraham David Moses, 
16 years old; Roy Rot, 18 years old; Yochai Lifshitz, 18 years old; 
Yehonadav Haim Hirshfeld, 19 years old; and Doron Mahareta, 26 years 
old.
  I urge my colleagues to come together and find ways to resolve the 
conflict in the Middle East.
  I would also like to express my deep sorrow for the loss of the young 
students. To the parents and families of the victims, I offer my 
sincerest condolences, and grant the families comfort and peace at this 
time.

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