Zeevi Katzenelbogen, who was injured in the deadly attack that took place last Sunday in the Old City of Jerusalem in which the late Eliyahu Kay was killed and another person was injured, arrived at the Western Wall yesterday (Tuesday) to thank them for their lives.
Meanwhile, Shaare Zedek Hospital updated two days ago that the seriously injured person's condition had stabilized after undergoing several additional surgeries.
Exciting: The wounded from the attack in the Old City returned to the Western Wall // Photo: The Western Wall Heritage Foundation
Katzenelbogen, 46, married and a father of eight from the Jewish Quarter, was treated at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital and released after recovering from his injury.
He said excitedly, "Wow, what an emotional thank you to God.
'Let his gates be in thanksgiving and his courts in glory' says a chapter of Psalms a hymn of thanksgiving, that King David teaches us to say thank you to Gd.
He also teaches us how to say thank you to God, where to say thank you to God and to whom to say thank you.
Come through the gates of the Temple, in the courtyards of the Temple, where it is the most appropriate place to say thank you before anyone who can hear.
Every person in the world has faith in his heart. '
Zeevi Katzenelbogen from his hospital bed, Photo: Hadassah spokeswoman
He added: "What I went through this week with the bullet of the murderous terrorist who got up in the morning to kill people, is the miracle of miracles.
I got up in the morning to say thank you for the great gifts God gives.
I prayed in the morning here at the Western Wall, I came up with a feeling of gratitude for connecting to God with the tefillin.
I was still with them when this murderous threat tried to take care of my life and the lives of other people and it was indeed partially successful.
The ball that came in my direction hit the tefillin, kept going in the hand on one side and came out on the other. '
As mentioned, the attack took place earlier this week at the chain gate in the Old City by the terrorist Sheikh Fadi Abu-Shihadam, 42, from Shuafat in East Jerusalem, a Hamas member from the political faction, who was armed with a weapon and a knife.
Eliyahu Kay, a 30-year-old fund employee who immigrated from South Africa and worked as a guide at the Western Wall, was killed in a terrorist attack.
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