Sunday, May 20, 2012

20 Minutes Apart.

September 12, 2001, The Jerusalem Post, (08:15 - Wed) Thousands of Israelis missing near WTC, Pentagon,

The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far received the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attack.

The list is made up of people who have not yet made contact with friends or family, Army Radio reported, telephone connections between Israel and the New York City and Washington, D.C. areas has been sporadic and unreliable since the multiple attacks yesterday.

Ten thousand people are estimated to have been killed in the New York attacks and another 800 in Washington, several hundred also went down with the hijacked planes.



September 12, 2001, The Jerusalem Post, (07:55) Hundreds of Israelis missing in WTC attack, by The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff,

A UNITED Airlines spokesman confirmed that Alona Avraham, a resident of Ashdod, was a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 75, the second hijacked plane to crash into the World Trade Center in New York. [This story last updated 14:30]

Avraham was in her mid-twenties and had recently finished university studies.

Avraham had spent a few days in Boston with friends and was heading for Los Angeles for a two-week visit, to include Rosh Hashanah.

Israeli Daniel Levin, 31, was also reported to be on one of the hijacked planes that was forced down by terrorists, Army Radio reported.

The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far received the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attack.

Israeli foreign missions in New York City and Washington are also working overtime to locate missing Israelis. For emergency telephone numbers set up to aid in the search and rescue efforts, click here.

Tom Tugend contributed to this report.



Q: What is the time difference between New York and Tel Aviv?

Tel Aviv is 7 hours later than New York



September 13, 2001, The Jerusalem Post, Massive search in New York locates 1,000 missing Israelis, by Melissa Radler, Tom Tugend contributed to this report from Los Angeles, and Gil Hoffman from Jerusalem. Page: 03,

Thursday, September 13, 2001 -- NEW YORK - The number of Israelis considered missing in New York dropped to three last night when Ya'acov Habbi and his daughter Gali were located. Ya'acov, who lives near the World Trade Center, and Gali were trapped in a car next to the site for about 20 hours.

Consul for media and public affairs Ido Aharoni said efforts to locate others are continuing. A group of consulate workers are searching local hospitals for people admitted with Israeli-sounding names.

Foreign Ministry workers have succeeded in locating over 1,000 Israelis. Some 20 have been located at area hospitals.

"We're only at the very beginning," said Aharoni of efforts to track down missing Israelis. "In many instances, we were able to conference-call them together," said Aharoni of the families.

No Israeli businesses were based in the World Trade Center, said a consulate spokeswoman.

The Israeli Consulate in New York has processed more than 4,500 phone calls of people seeking information regarding missing relatives in New York as of yesterday morning, said Aharoni.

"Hundreds of people have been tracked down," he said.

Consul-General Alon Pinkas estimated the number of those connected with their families in Israel at 500, Army Radio reported.

In Jerusalem, some two dozen Foreign Ministry employees are also handling hundreds of inquiries about relatives in New York.

The ministry has also established a page on its Web site - www.mfa.gov.il - to help Israelis find each other.

A young Israeli woman, hoping for a respite from the tensions of terrorist attacks at home through a brief vacation in the United States, was among the victims aboard United Airlines Flight 175.

A United Airlines spokesman confirmed that Alona Avraham of Ashdod was a passenger aboard the second hijacked plane to crash into the World Trade Center.

Avraham was in her mid-twenties and had recently finished her university studies, according to Danny Raymond of Van Nuys, California, a cousin of Avraham.

Raymond said Avraham had spent a few days in Boston with friends and was heading for Los Angeles for a two-week visit, to include Rosh Hashana, at the Raymond home.

Edmund Glazer, who died in the crash of American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center, was chief financial officer and vice president of finance for California-based MRV Communications, a telecommunications company with long-standing Israeli ties.

Glazer was a native of Zambia, born to South African parents, and came to the United States when he was 17. He attended Santa Monica College for two years, then graduated from the University of Southern

California. He joined MRV in 1994.

The company is headed by two Israelis: Shlomo Margalit, the company founder, and Noam Lotan, its president.

Glazer was a resident of Wellesley, Massachussetts and was on a business trip to MRV headquarters in Chatsworth, California, when his plane was hijacked.

He is survived by his wife Candy and four-year old son Nathan, as well as his parents and a sister, residents of Toronto, Canada.

Actress and photographer Berry Berenson, the wife of the late actor Anthony Perkins, the sister of actress Marisa Berenson, and the grandniece of famed art historian and collector Bernard Berenson, was aboard American Airlines Flight 11.

Berry Berenson appeared in a number of Hollywood films in the 1970s and '80s, and photographed covers for Life magazine and other publications.

Bernard Berenson was born in the Lithuanian village of Beltramentz, where his father was one of the leaders of the Jewish community. Although Bernard converted to Christianity as a youth, he publicly prided himself of carrying on the Jewish "tradition of great learning."



The Jewish "tradition of great secrecy?"



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