TIMES OF ISRAEL
Thousands from Israel, overseas at wedding of terror victim’s daughter
by Renee Ghert-Zand
November 27, 2015
Sarah Techiya Litman and Ariel Biegel were married Thursday evening at the elevated plaza in front of Jerusalem’s International Convention Center. As hundreds of guests crowded around the white huppah (wedding canopy), the sounds of police and ambulance sirens rose from the streets below to mingle with the music played during the ceremony…Not only Israelis from all over the country, but also Jews from all over the world (including a group of 12 from a Canadian synagogue) responded to the couple’s invitation asking “everyone” to celebrate with them at their wedding, which had been postponed from its originally scheduled date of November 16. Litman and Biegel rescheduled the wedding for Thursday night, less than two weeks since the bride’s father Rabbi Yaakov Litman, and her 18-year-old brother Netanel were shot dead in a terrorist attack as they drove on Route 60 in the southern West Bank on November 13. Other family members in the car — the mother, a 16-year-old boy and three young girls aged 11, 9 and 5 — were lightly wounded..READ MORE