Gavriel Holtzberg was the Chabad rabbi murdered with his wife in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Through 2010 the opening said the couple 'were murdered by Pakistani Islamic terrorists in the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai.' Today the opening calls the killers 'the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba,' though terror survives nine times elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns the name of the group and not that Wikipedia's own opening once called its members terrorists.
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Gavriel Noach Holtzberg ( , born 1979, died 26 November 2008 ) was an Orthodox rabbi and the Chabad emissary to Mumbai , India , where he and his wife Rivka ran the Mumbai Chabad House .1 He was also a religious leader and community builder for the local Jewish Indian community, and led the Friday-night Shabbat services at the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue. Holtzberg and his wife were murdered by Pakistani Islamic terrorists in the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai .2
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Gavriel Noach Holtzberg ( ; 1979 – 26 November 2008 ) was an Orthodox rabbi and the Chabad emissary to Mumbai , India, where he and his wife Rivka ran the Mumbai Chabad House . He was also a religious leader and community builder for the local Jewish Indian community, and led the Friday-night Shabbat services at the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue. Holtzberg and his wife were killed during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks .The MetroWest Daily News .The New York Times . p.
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Gavriel Noach Holtzberg ( ; 9 June 1979 – 26 November 2008 (29th of Cheshvan 5769)) was an Israeli American Orthodox rabbi and the Chabad emissary to Mumbai , India, where he and his wife Rivka ran the Mumbai Chabad House . He was also a religious leader and community builder for the local Jewish Indian community, and led the Friday-night Shabbat services at the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue. Holtzberg and his wife were murdered during the 2008 Mumbai attacks perpetrated by Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba ." "Jerusalem funeral of Mumbai rabbi", Australian Jewish News, 3 December 2008" . The MetroWest Daily News . The New York Times . p.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Gavriel Noach Holtzberg ( ; June 9, 1979 – November 26, 2008 (1st of Kislev, 5769) was an Israeli American Orthodox rabbi and the Chabad emissary to Mumbai , India, where he and his wife Rivka ran the Mumbai Chabad House . He was also a religious leader and community builder for the local Jewish Indian community, and led the Friday-night Shabbat services at the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue. Holtzberg and his wife were murdered during the 2008 Mumbai attacks perpetrated by Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba . " "Jerusalem funeral of Mumbai rabbi", Australian Jewish News, 3 December 2008" . The MetroWest Daily News . The New York Times . p.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
American-Israeli rabbi (1979–2008) Gavriel Noach Holtzberg ( Hebrew : גבריאל נח הולצברג ; June 9, 1979 – November 26, 2008 (1st of Kislev, 5769) was an Israeli American Orthodox rabbi and the Chabad emissary to Mumbai , India, where he and his wife Rivka ran the Mumbai Chabad House . He was also a religious leader and community builder for the local Jewish Indian community, and led the Friday-night Shabbat services at the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue. Holtzberg and his wife were murdered during the 2008 Mumbai attacks perpetrated by the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba . " "Jerusalem funeral of Mumbai rabbi", Australian Jewish News, 3 December 2008" . The MetroWest Daily News . The New York Times . p.
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orthodox rabbi and the chabad emissary to mumbai
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israeli american orthodox rabbi and the chabad emissary to mumbai
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