Netanyahu ‘Heartbroken’ By Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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By Reuters October 27, 2018

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he was “heartbroken and appalled” by a shooting attack in a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed at least eight people.

“The entire people of Israel grieve with the families of the dead. We stand together with the Jewish community of Pittsburgh, we stand together with the American people in the face of this horrendous anti-Semitic brutality and we all pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

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