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(A7) Hundreds of mourners gathered in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, Tuesday, to pay their last respects to Leah (Lucy) Dee, one of three victims killed in the Jordan Valley terrorist shooting attack last Friday.
Mourners gather as 48 year old Lucy (Leah) Dee is laid to rest in Israel. Along with her two daughters, Rina and Maia, she was brutally murdered in a Palestinian terror attack in the Jordan Valley on Friday. The mourners shown here are singing “V’Hee Sh’Amda” from the Passover Haggadah
Dee was laid to rest at the Kfar Etzion Cemetery, near the town of Efrat where she lived.
During the funeral, one of Dee’s surviving daughters, Keren, eulogized her mother saying: “Losing a mother is like losing a life. We worked on our relationship until we became best friends. There is no one to tell us what to do anymore. A hole has been created that cannot be filled. Mom, you were everything.”
Rabbi Leo Dee, the husband of Leah Dee and father of Rina and Maia Dee, who were all brutally murdered in a Palestinian terror attack in the Jordan Valley on Friday speaks at the funeral of his wife who succumbed to her severe injuries yesterday. Despite deep divisions in Israeli society over the judicial reform measures, Rabbi Dee speaks of the unity of the Jewish nation as he notes that the real enemy is the “mad, ideological terrorist” who ruthlessly murders Jews, no matter where they come from
Tal Dee, Lucy Dee’s other surviving daughter, said: “I need you. You are taking care of Maia and Rina now, but who will take care of us?”
“I need you. You are taking care of Maia and Rina now, but who will take care of us?”
After Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee were murdered in a brutal terrorist attack, their father and husband, Rabbi Leo Dee, requested everyone share a picture of the Israeli flag in their memory.
Israel’s security forces will not rest until they capture everyone involved in the attack.… pic.twitter.com/SHL8C41O4v— The Jewish Voice (@JewishVoice) April 11, 2023
Dee’s brother said that his sister had “decided to give back to the community in the way she knew best, by teaching English classes and by cooking for new mothers and volunteers.”
People in Israel gather as Shir HaMaalos is heard in the background at the funeral of Leah Dee in Israel
Two days ago, Lee’s 20-year-old daughter, Maia, and her 16-year-old daughter, Rina, were laid to rest at the Kfar Etzion Cemetery.
Dee’s two daughters were killed in Friday’s attack, while Lee was critically wounded, succumbing to her wounds on Monday.
Dee, 48, was an English teacher at the Orot Yehuda Bnei Akiva school in Efrat.
After her death, Dee’s husband, Rabbi Leo Dee, and her three surviving children agreed to donate her organs.
Rabbi Leo Dee told Israel National News that the organs have already been transplanted to five patients who had been waiting for donors, with two others receiving donated corneas.
