Dozens of Jews and Muslims gathered outside the Grand Synagogue in Tunis, Tunisia Saturday night in a candlelight vigil in memory of 21-year-old Yoav Hattab, a son of the chief rabbi of Tunisia Benjamin Hattab, who was murdered in the terror attack on the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris a week ago.
Above: Yoav Hattab
Jews And Muslims Gather In Tunis To Remember Jew Murdered In Paris Terror Attack
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Dozens of Jews and Muslims gathered outside the Grand Synagogue in Tunis, Tunisia Saturday night in a candlelight vigil in memory of 21-year-old Yoav Hattab, a son of the chief rabbi of Tunisia Benjamin Hattab, who was murdered in the terror attack on the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris a week ago, Arutz Sheva reported.
About 150 people carried candles and pictures of Yoav Hattab, placing them between two Tunisian flags as a makeshift memorial. Hattab was in France studying international business.
Four Jews were killed by the Islamist terrorist who seized the store. One of those four was Hattab, who was shot when he tried to take a gun away from the terrorist.
About 15 other hostages were hidden in the stores basement freezer and saved by a Muslim store employee.
French police shot and killed the terrorist in hail of bullets as he charged toward them, gun blazing.
Sion Cohen from the Tunisian island of Djerba, home to the vast majority of Tunisia’s 1,500 Jews, came to Tunis for the memorial vigil for Hattab.
"This gathering shows Tunisia brings everyone together. As far as I know, this is the first demonstration of its kind in solidarity with Jews ever held [in the country],” Cohen said.
The moderate Islamist movement Ennahda also sent condolences to Hattab's family.
But the government of this almost exclusively Muslim North African nation has officially said nothing.
"That is a disgrace," Erij Bodhief, a 23-year-old student, reportedly said. "I am a Muslim and I came. He was a child of Tunisia. What sort of message are the authorities sending to the Jews of Tunisia by not talking about this?"