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A picture of Ilan Halimi, who was kidnapped and murdered by a gang in Paris. (Archives) Last update - 15:17 10/02/2007 Hundreds attend reinterment of murdered French Jewish man By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent Hundreds of people participated Friday in a reinterment ceremony in Jerusalem for Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old French Jewish man kidnapped and fatally tortured by a gang exactly a year ago. Halimi was laid to rest at the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem. When Halimi's kidnappers were arrested, they told French police they had selected a Jewish victim because they believed Jews are wealthy. The case shocked the 500,000-strong Jewish community in France and the general public. Advertisement The decision to reinter Halimi in Israel was made by his mother Ruth, following a conversation with Jewish Agency Chairman Zeev Bielsky. The funeral was held on the anniversary of his murder, according to the Hebrew date. His mother and two sisters attended, as did Immigrant Absorption Minister Ze'ev Boim, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and the Chief Rabbi of France, Yosef Sitruk, as well as senior officials of Jewish organizations in Europe and the U.S. and from the Jewish Agency. The French government was represented by French Ambassador to Israel Jean-Michel Casa. Halimi, a resident of a Parisian suburb, was lured by a young woman who entered the shop where he worked and persuaded him to meet her in another suburb, where he was kidnapped by a gang of youths, most of them immigrants. The abductors held Halimi hostage for three days and tortured him. Once the kidnappers concluded that the victim's parents were unable to pay the ransom they demanded, they dumped Halimi, who died of his wounds on his way to hospital. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Artistic justice Israel Museum to exhibit art looted by Nazis and unclaimed. Let in snow For second time this winter, Jerusalem braces for snow.   1.   Interesting, What Haaretz Does Not Say 03:50  |  CHGODMK 09/02/07   2.   French Jew 04:44  |  Shmuelshachor 09/02/07   3.   Revange... 05:01  |  Jean-Pierre 09/02/07   4.   Re #1 `Interesting.` Is that such a good idea? 05:35  |  Colin Wright 09/02/07   5.   re #1 `interesting.` Actually... 05:45  |  Colin Wright 09/02/07   6.   FRENCH MUSLIMS TORTURE TO DEATH JEWS BECAUSE HE IS A JEW AND 05:59  |  MK 09/02/07   7.   _ 06:33  |  dan 09/02/07   8.   #2 06:56  |  From the Moon 09/02/07   9.   If anti-Semitism was an unacceptable phenomenon in France, there 06:59  |  Nadav 09/02/07   10.   Absolutely wrong message 07:30  |  Jacques 09/02/07   11.   Re #3 `Revange.` Kind of funny... 07:35  |  Colin Wright 09/02/07   12.   Yankele-Yankelowitz: Don`t send postings before you cure IDIOTISM 07:38  |  Vittorio 09/02/07   13.   French murder "gang" were muslim 08:27  |  Tamar 09/02/07   14.   re. Yankelowitz 09:48  |  Efox 09/02/07   15.   No 1 shame on you 10:25  |  chava 09/02/07   16.   to # 1-When will the world wake up? 11:36  |  Shmuelshachor 09/02/07   17.   Immigrants? 11:42  |  David 09/02/07   18.   The political kidnapping of a corpse? 12:51  |  Jean-Paul Doguet 09/02/07   19.   Yankelowitz: "Shut Your Mouth..." 12:53  |  CHGODMK 09/02/07   20.   Colin Wright #5 13:04  |  CHGODMK 09/02/07   21.   ilan halimi 13:05  |  recih 09/02/07   22.   Colin Wright #4 13:07  |  CHGODMK 09/02/07   23.   Tp Yankelowitz: 50,000 homicides a year? 13:42  |  Alain Chantenay 09/02/07   24.   "Yankelowitz", if France is such a good place, and Paris is the.. 15:13  |  Nadav 09/02/07   25.   murdered Ilan Halimi reinterment- to #1 15:28  |  Meyer 09/02/07   26.   Ilan Halimi`s torture 15:30  |  Joel 09/02/07   27.   murder of Ilan Halimi 16:18  |  Philippe Netter 09/02/07   28.   A horrendous crime 16:22  |  KUTW 09/02/07   29.   "The brain of barbarians", chief of the gang 16:35  |  KUTW 09/02/07   30.   Jacques sorry but you are wrong 16:40  |  topanga 09/02/07   31.   Murderers connected to Hamas 16:43  |  KUTW 09/02/07   32.   10. Jacques: The message 16:51  |  KUTW 09/02/07   33.   #23 Joel Facts you don`t know 16:53  |  bimmer 09/02/07   34.   3. Jean-Pierre: Jihadists out of Europe 17:11  |  KUTW 09/02/07   35.   5. Colin Wright: The Black you say is Muslim 17:14  |  KUTW 09/02/07   36.   9.Nadav: If anti-Semitism was an unacceptable phenomenon 17:18  |  KUTW 09/02/07   37.   15. chava: on shame 17:23  |  KUTW 09/02/07   38.   19. CHGODMK: Occupied France 17:26  |  KUTW 09/02/07   39.   reporter Amiram Barkat please respond 17:30  |  bob 09/02/07   40.   reporter Americam Barkat please respond 17:34  |  bob 09/02/07   41.   we are our own worst enemy! #4 #5 Far from Right! 17:43  |  alan 09/02/07   42.   Manipulation of the Halimi horrible story 17:48  |  Iris 09/02/07   43.   Clearly an anti-semitic crime 19:41  |  Bilu 09/02/07   44.   #41 alan to #4,5 Colin Wright. You`ve got much to learn from C.W. 20:49  |  zmogus 09/02/07   45.   FACTS 21:02  |  A 09/02/07   46.   #43 Bilu. Read again your evidences. And now your conclusion. 21:08  |  zmogus 09/02/07   47.   #46 you are wrong 21:40  |  Margarita 09/02/07   48.   46: Halimi was... 21:42  |  bilu 09/02/07   49.   To CHGODMK 21:48  |  muslim 09/02/07   50.   Black Muslim arrested in France for anti-Semitism 22:25  |  KUTW 09/02/07   51.   KUTW: You Are Right 22:40  |  CHGODMK 09/02/07   52.   Halimi, savagely tortured for 24 days for being Jewish 22:56  |  KUTW 09/02/07   53.   Chava: Shame on You!! 23:23  |  CHGODMK 09/02/07   54.   47CHGODMK: Europeans have to pay jizya 23:41  |  KUTW 09/02/07   55.   HIS MOTHER HAS THE RIGHT TO DECIDE! 00:22  |  Hannah 10/02/07   56.   To "muslim" 01:27  |  CHGODMK 10/02/07   57.   KUTW #54: The Flowering of a Fourth Reich?! 01:30  |  CHGODMK 10/02/07   58.   Comparison with the Europe of the 1930s 07:45  |  SimoneV 10/02/07   59.   Ilian murder does not appear anti-Semitic act 09:39  |  Victor 10/02/07   60.   59: Don`t be an ostrich 14:19  |  Lucide 10/02/07   61.   Reply to Hannah 14:46  |  Jean-Paul Doguet 10/02/07   62.   "They are (almost) all Muslims" myth 15:17  |  zmogus 10/02/07   63.   #9 Nadav. Tell me about racial killing as "acceptable phenomenon" 16:19  |  zmogus 10/02/07   64.   Truth Be Told 17:27  |  Truth Be Told 10/02/07   65.   "circonstances aggravantes" 18:50  |  bilu 10/02/07   66.   Victor 19:01  |  France 10/02/07   67.   Zmogus, if French Jews tell me that the level of anti-Semitism in 19:54  |  Nadav 10/02/07   68.   # Nadav. I work in a French Jew`s office every day. 20:34  |  zmogus 10/02/07   69.   The jewish community is surely the most protected in France 20:32  |  Yankelowitz 11/02/07   70.   French Anti-Semitism sets the climate 00:25  |  NEIL 19/02/08

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