The Overflowing Funeral

This is post 6 on this blog. Please recite Tehillim 6.

A CBS reporter was visbly moved when reporting on the following story.

The family of a 24-year-old woman who was killed by Hamas militants at a music festival in southern Israel Saturday went online and asked if 10 people would attend her funeral, because the family had just moved to Israel and didn't know many people. About 10,000 Israelis showed up.

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