Peres said, "The entire world and certainly the Jewish people owe an answer to the questions of the two-year-old child. We must explain to him why his mother was murdered. Anybody who has such a child must ask this question."
"An entire nation weeps today. The entire Jewish people is one big family whose pain knows no boundaries but nor does its hopes," the President said.
Israel's Defence Ministry has decided to view the attack on the Jewish institution an 'enemy action' against the State. The decision will entitle the families of the victims of Nariman House the same financial benefits that are granted to victims of terror attacks in Israel.
The government is also considering conferring the top Israeli honour -- 'Righteous Gentile' to Moshe's governess Sandra Samuel for rescuing the child. The honour, usually reserved for saviours of Jews from Holocaust, may facilitate her further stay in Israel after she was given a last-minute visa to travel to Jerusalem along with the couple's parents.
Among the other victims were 50-year-old Norma Shvarzblat Rabinovich of Mexico, who had planned to immigrate to Israel this week to join two of her children.
The two others were Ycheved Orpaz, 60, who had been travelling in India with a daughter and grandchildren, and Ben-Zion Korman, 28, who visited Mumbai with Teitelbaum to supervise preparation of 'kosher' food in the Jewish centre.
Image: Jewish men mourn next to the bodies of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivkah.
Photograph: Yerhuda Raizner/AFP/Getty Images
Also see: 'Rabbi Holtzberg has suffered a lot of hardship'
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