Bulgaria's Burgas to Host Commemorative Ceremony for Israeli Victims

Society | August 29, 2012, Wednesday // 08:43
Bulgaria: Bulgaria's Burgas to Host Commemorative Ceremony for Israeli Victims The coffins of the victims of the suicide bombing in Bulgaria arrived at the Ben-Gurion Airport on July 20.

A commemorative ceremony will be held on Wednesday in Bulgaria's Burgas in honor of the five Israeli tourists killed in the Black Sea city last month.

The relatives of the five Israelis killed in the terror attack are expected to attend the ceremony that is to take place at the Burgas airport.

The Kiddush ritual will take place during the ceremony, Sabatai Versanov, chair of the Jewish community "Shalom" in Burgas, has told the Bulgarian National Radio.

A rabbi may be present at the event.

On Tuesday, the people and governments of Bulgaria and Israel honored the memory of the five Israelis and one Bulgarian who perished in the terrorist attack at the Burgas Airport on July 18, 2012.

A memorial service was held in the Sofia Synagogue in the presence of the relatives of the five Israeli tourists and Mustafa Kisyov, the Bulgarian bus driver, who died in the attack.

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