Thousands join funeral as victims of Neve Tzuf Arab Muslim terror attack laid to rest

Where is the media on the mass-murder of three Jews in their own home on Shabbat?

Tova Salomon, who was wounded in the assault in which she lost her husband and two children, leaves hospital to attend funeral.

Thousands of mourners gathered in the central Israeli city of Modiin on Sunday as the three members of the Salomon family who were murdered by a [so-called] “Palestinian” terrorist in a deadly stabbing attack were laid to rest.

Yosef Salomon, 70, and his two children Chaya Salomon, 46, and Elad Salomon, 36, were killed by a 19-year-old Arab Muslim who infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf on Friday night and attacked them in their home as they were celebrating the birth of a new grandchild with the family.

A five-minute walk from the entrance to the cemetery, surrounded by tall trees of the Ben Shemen forest, friends and relatives once again gathered together, but this time without the jokes and singing that accompanied the celebration on Friday and so much of the time in the Solomon family home.

Each of the six eulogies given before the burials mentioned the seemingly endless warmth and love that Yosef both had for and instilled in his family and community.

To the audible sobs of the some 3,000 strong crowd, ​Rabbi Yonatan Glass, the rabbi of Neve Tzuf, described Yosef and the Saloman family’s effect on the close-knit settlement nestled in the Samarian hills the north of Ramallah.

“Only someone with no remnant of humanity could raise their hand against Yossi and his family,” he said. “Yossi made everyone he came across happy. The Salomon family household was based on making other people happy.”

Yosef’s daughter Orit, one of three children who survive their father and siblings, said she now felt an emptiness having lost the “rock” of the family.

“Dad, you were always a man who gave everything and made us all happy and made us feel like everything was OK but now, nothing is OK,” she said. “Now you can rest, we will look after Mom.”

Yosef’s wife, Tova, 68, was released from the hospital hours earlier and joined the mourners at the funeral. She had been seriously wounded in the attack and taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem where she underwent surgery on Saturday morning.

Orit also vowed to look after her brother Elad’s children, saying that “your blood runs through me and I will look after them like my own.”

Michal Solomon, the wife of Elad, spoke of the deep partnership they shared and of her fears for the future without him. “Now you are not here for me and it scares me,” she said in a near whisper.

“Thirteen years ago I met a quiet, calm and stable man. I felt certain in my decision to spend our lives together. You were a perfect husband, we couldn’t have asked for any more. You were excited by our kids. You cared about them. You played with them like a kid yourself,” she said.

Michal thanked all those who supported her and the family. She was present during the attack and saved their children by taking them upstairs and holding the door closed.

“I want to say thank you to everyone here,” she said. “In the last two days I have received so much strength from people I don’t know. You don’t know how much you have helped me.”

While the immediate family members offered their memories of their slain loved ones, others took the opportunity to consider the wider ramifications of the murders, which came amid rising tensions with the [Arab Muslim Nazis who wish to murder the Jews].

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