A memorial event marking 30 years since the terror shooting attack in 1994 in which Ari Halberstam HYD was murdered will take place on Friday, March 1st at 12 PM.
30 years ago on March 1st, 1994 at 10:21 AM, Lebanese terrorist Rashid Baz shot at a van of 15 Chabad Yeshiva students traveling on the Brooklyn Bridge, murdering Ari Halberstam HY”D.
Baz, driving a blue Chevrolet Caprice equipped with a submachine gun, two 9mm guns, and a “street sweeper” shotgun, pursued the van full of terrified students across the bridge.
He fired in three separate bursts, spraying both sides of the van. He then disappeared into traffic as the van came to a stop at the Brooklyn end of the bridge.
The injured Yeshiva students were among dozens who were returning from a Manhattan hospital where the Rebbe had undergone minor surgery.
The attack occurred less than a week after the massacre of Muslims by a Brooklyn-born Jewish settler in the West Bank. The shooting began at 10:24 A.M. on the ramp that leads from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive to the Brooklyn Bridge.
The van that was fired on, a white Dodge Ram 350 carrying 15 students, was one of perhaps 20 vehicles en route back to Crown Heights from Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, where the Rebbe was being treated.
All the shooting victims were immediately rushed to St. Vincent’s Hospital. The most severe of the wounded was 16-year-old Ari Halberstam obm who was shot in the head. He suffered from profound brain injuries and died five days later.
The Memorial Event will take place at the Ari Halberstam Memorial Ramp (corner of Pearl St & Frankfort St)
Friday, March 1st 12:00 PM sharp
Both for Devori’s sake and to show her & the world that we still remember and deeply care
It saddens me to say this about something the Halberstam family is presumably intending to be an apolitical gathering in memory of Ari Halberstam HY”D, but it might be a good idea to allow this gathering to become somewhat politicized. People need to understand that, for better or for worse, anti Zionism and anti Semitism have essentially morphed into one philosophy, and Jews everywhere, even here in the United States, are openly vulnerable to the potential horrors of this kind of distorted and hateful thinking. Of course it doesn’t help that it is also endlessly funded and carefully orchestrated. So,… Read more »
Anyone know if there is a bus going to the memorial from Crown Heights or elsewhere?