Rabbi Goldberg's descendant Possible Kidnapped Victim From Music Festival

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

                   Rabbi Goldberg on left  and Rabbi Twersky on right, 2 of 4 rabbis slaughtered right in the synagogue during their morning prayers in Jerusalem 9 years ago.  

November 18, 2014 was a day that the newspapers told of 4 rabbis praying in a synagogue in Jerusalem, evidently the Kehillat Yaakov Synagogue,  were slaughtered by terrorists.  One of them, the British born Abraham Shmuel Goldberg, was my newly-found cousin who had been helping me with my genealogy long-distance from Jerusalem to Oregon.  

The party was supposed to be the kind of revelry that recently discharged soldiers tend to enjoy. Goldberg-Polin, who was born in Berkeley, moved to Israel with his parents at age 7 and completed his mandatory army service in April.

Eight days ago another Goldberg was kidnapped and possibly already killed, Hersh Goldberg-Polim whose mother and father live in Jerusalem.  He had been at the kibbutz Re'im in the Negev  taking part in the Music Festival that was purposely attacked by Hamas Palestinian terrorists and so many slaughtered.  Hersh's mother was just interviewed about this on Fox News.  As partygoers ran for their lives, they were cut down. Israeli officials said at least 260 people were killed in the massacre, and others were taken captive to be held as hostages.  Goldberg may be one of them.  

I counted 65 Goldbergs that I share DNA with on Family Tree DNA (FTDNA), one DNA company alone and that covered 3 pages only of the list.  I know there were more Goldbergs on the next pages that were related.  Where they live is unknown to me at this stage of DNA matched listings. 

Resource:

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-day-four-rabbis-were-slaughtered-by.html

https://jweekly.com/2023/10/08/berkeley-born-hersh-goldberg-polin-among-missing-americans-missing-or-dead-in-hamas-invasion/