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News Agencies and Anshel Pfeffer in Mumbai |

Nov 28, 2008 3:11 AM Updated: 12:29 AM

Pakistan to seek reversal of Mumbai attacks mastermind's bail

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak

decided on Saturday evening to dispatch an Israel Air Force plane

with teams of medical and forensic experts to Mumbai on Sunday to

aid in the identification of victims of the terror attacks that rocked

the Indian city, leaving at least 195 dead.

Israeli embassy representatives and rescue personnel have

identified six of the victims killed in the assault that began

Wednesday night across India's financial capital, including its

Chabad center.

The Foreign Ministry said nine people - most Israelis, some dual

citizens but all of them Jews - were killed in an attack on the Chabad

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house in Mumbai this week, part of a spectacular assault on symbols

of luxury and foreign appeal across the city.

Authorities earlier on Saturday said Israel may have to fly crime-lab

analysts to India for positive identification before the victims'

remains can be flown to Israel for burial.

Authorities on Saturday named one of the Israeli victims as

Yocheved Orpaz, 60, after her family identified her body on

Saturday afternoon. Another woman was identified as a Jewish

resident of Mexico, whose name has not yet been released.

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement confirmed Friday evening that an

Israeli-born American rabbi, Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife

Rivka, 28, were among the dead.

The Holtzbergs will be flown to Israel for burial, said Rivka

Holtzberg's brother, Shmulik Rosenberg. A Chabad spokesman said

they likely would be buried Monday.

Two other victims from the Chabad house who have also been

positively identified are Bentzion Chroman, a dual U.S.-Israeli

citizen, and Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, a U.S. citizen who lived in

Jerusalem.

The carnage began Wednesday at about 9:20 p.m. with shooters

spraying gunfire across the Chhatrapati Shivaji railroad station. For

the next two hours, there was an attack roughly every 15 minutes -

the Jewish center, a tourist restaurant, one hotel, then another, and

two attacks on hospitals.

By Saturday morning the death toll was at 195, the deadliest attack

in India since 1993 serial bombings in Mumbai killed 257 people.

But officials said the toll was likely to rise as more bodies are found

in the hotels.

Indian commandos ended the three-day rampage on Saturday after

storming Mumbai's best-known hotel, the Taj Mahal.

A difficult spectacle

Barak told Channel 1 Television on Friday that the bodies of two

women and three men had been found at the Chabad center, one of


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10 targets attacked by suspected Muslim terrorists across Mumbai.

The body of a third woman was found later in the building.

Barak added that some of the bodies had been tied up, and that two

women had been killed many hours before. "All in all, it was a

difficult spectacle," he said.

The defense minister said without elaborating that the roots of the

attack were in India, but involved militants in Pakistan and

Afghanistan as well.

While acknowledging the complexity of ending the attacks across

sprawling Mumbai, Barak added, "I'm not sure it had to last three

days, but that's what happened."

Israel offered all manner of help to Indian officials, Barak said,

including assistance "that is inappropriate to detail here."

Israel's ambasssador to India, Mark Sofer, however, consistently

dismissed reports that Israeli commandos took part in the

operation.

Livni, speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem, said Friday that

it was no coincidence the Chabad center had been attacked.

"There is no doubt, we know, that the targets the terrorists singled

out were Jewish, Israeli targets and targets identified with the West,

Americans and Britons," Livni said.

"Our world is under attack, it doesn't matter whether it happens in

India or somewhere else," she added. "There are Islamic extremists

who don't accept our existence or Western values."

Her words echoed those of Sofer, who said earlier that out of the

thousands of building in Mumbai, it was hard to believe that the

terrorists had stumbled by chance upon the Jewish center.

Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg spread Jewish pride

Gavriel Holtzberg was born in Israel and moved to the Crown

Heights section of Brooklyn with his parents when he was nine. His

wife, born Rivka Rosenberg, was a native of Afula.

"Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the beloved directors of


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Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, were killed during one of the worst

terrorist attacks to strike India in recent memory," the Chabad's

New York headquarters said in a statement.

The couple ran the Chabad's Mumbai headquarters. Their toddler

son, Moshe, was smuggled out of the center by an employee on

Wednesday, and is now with his maternal grandparents, who

arrived from Israel on Thursday. Another son, who was ailing, was

in Israel at the time of the attack.

The Holtzbergs arrived in Mumbai in 2003 to serve the small

Jewish community there, running a synagogue and Torah classes,

and assisting Jewish tourists in the seaside city.

"Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg made the ultimate sacrifice," Rabbi

Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of the educational arm of Chabad-

Lubavitch, said in a statement.

"As emissaries to Mumbai, Gabi and Rivki gave up the comforts of

the West in order to spread Jewish pride in a corner of the world

that was a frequent stop for throngs of Israeli tourists."

Chabad had first raised the alarm Wednesday night, when attacks

began in Mumbai, saying it had failed to make contact with the

rabbi. Hundreds were also wounded in the attacks, which appeared

to target locations popular with foreigners.

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