In Mumbai, earlier in the day, Moshe, in a bright green T-shirt and blue shorts, was carried into a synagogue to attend a prayer meeting in memory of those killed.

Holding a ball in hand, Moshe who was orphaned on the day of his birthday, November 28, kept looking around. As the prayers started, Moshe could be seen getting fidgety and ended up crying for his parents. As the synagogue echoed with prayers, the entire gathering was seen crying or fighting back tears.

be seen trying best to hold back their tears.

“We found the child on the second floor. We had initially thought he was sleeping on the fifth,” said the caretaker of Moshe, who was rescued in a dramatic fashion by nanny Sandra Samuel.

Samuel, hiding in one of the rooms after having slammed the door on a terrorist’s face, rushed to the second floor after hearing Moshe yell out her name continuously. According to Israeli media reports, she saw the parents lying on the ground, apparently “unconscious”. She picked up the boy and and ran out into the safety of NSG commandos.

The Nariman House complex, also known as the Chabad House, has been closed since the rabbi and his wife Rivka were killed. Jewish leaders said that it would soon be re-opened. They added that after the death of the rabbi, who belonged to Chabad-Lubavitch faith, several young Chabad couples have stepped forward to move to Mumbai to continue the movement’s work.

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