Rabbi with Brookline Ties Killed in Jerusalem Terrorist Attack

A rabbi with ties to Brookline was killed in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem Tuesday.

Mosheh Twersky was one of four worshipers killed in the attack, which happened at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood. The Times of Israel reported two terrorists—armed with a gun, meat cleaver, and ax—entered the synagogue during morning prayer at about 7 a.m. and attacked the worshipers. Police killed the two men minutes later.

Twerksy attened the Maimonides School in Brookline, graduating in 1973.

“Our community is stricken with grief and outrage,” the school said in a statement.

Twerksy was married and had five children, the school said. He lived in Jerusalem for the last 30 years, serving as dean of a school there.

Twerksy was a U.S. citizen. Two more U.S. citizens—Aryeh Kupinsky and Cary William Levine—were killed in the attack, U.S. officials said.

“The thoughts and prayers of the American people are with the victims and families of all those who were killed and injured in this horrific attack and in other recent violence,” President Obama said in a statement. “At this sensitive moment in Jerusalem, it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence, and seek a path forward towards peace.”

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