26/11 survivor kin wait for PM Modi visit

Jerusalem: Moshe Holtzberg, the Israeli child who was just two years old when he lost his parents in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, is looking forward to see Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who in a special gesture, will meet the boy during his tour next week.

Mr Modi’s decision to meet Moshe, now 10, has been welcomed by the child’s family which said that the gesture made them realise that Indians share their pain and they had not been forgotten.

Mr Modi will also meet Moshe’s Indian nanny Sandra Samuels, who managed to escape with him from the Nariman House which came under attack by Pakistan-based LeT terrorists, and his grandparents Shimon and Yehudit Rosenberg.

“I could not believe my ears when I got a call from the Indian envoy saying that Modi wants to meet us. My immediate thoughts were that we have not been forgotten and that Indians share our pain,” Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg said.    

“I am deeply moved and can’t explain how good I feel at this gesture 0from the Indian Prime Minister. We are looking forward to that opportunity,” Mr Rosenberg added.

He said that he wanted to do his grandson’s “bar mitvah” in Mumbai for which he would invite the Prime Minister.