{"id":1414561,"date":"2022-04-01T09:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T13:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414561"},"modified":"2022-04-01T09:29:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T13:29:51","slug":"israel-ultra-orthodox-jews-pay-respects-at-funeral-of-arab-christian-police-officer-who-killed-palestinian-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-ultra-orthodox-jews-pay-respects-at-funeral-of-arab-christian-police-officer-who-killed-palestinian-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Ultra-Orthodox Jews Pay Respects at Funeral of Arab Christian Police Officer who Killed Palestinian Terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-ultra-orthodox-jews-pay-respects-at-funeral-of-arab-christian-police-officer-who-killed-palestinian-terrorist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A busload of ultra-Orthodox residents from Bnei Brak, the city in which the last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/03\/30\/two-ukrainians-two-fathers-and-arab-christian-cop-killed-in-terror-attack-in-israel\/\">shooting massacre<\/a> took place, traveled to Israel\u2019s north to pay their respects at the funeral of an\u00a0Israeli Christian Arab police officer who was killed while taking down the Palestinian terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Amir Khoury is credited with saving countless lives after he rushed to the scene of the shooting and opened fire at the Palestinian gunman, Diaa Hamarsheh, killing him. Khoury was shot in the exchange and died shortly after.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Khoury and his partner, motorcycle police officers stationed in Bnei Brak, were the first to reach the terrorist after he gunned down four people in two locations.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yeshiva World News, Khoury once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theyeshivaworld.com\/news\/headlines-breaking-stories\/2074442\/bnei-brak-residents-attend-levaya-of-arab-christian-hero-chassid-umos-haolam.html\">saved<\/a> an ultra-Orthodox man from drowning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20480996\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239644175.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Israeli police officers carry the coffin of Israeli Arab policeman Amir Khoury, 32, one of the five people killed in a shooting attack in the religious town of Bnei Brak, during his funeral in Nazareth on March 31, 2022. (JALAA MAREY\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thousands of people from all over the country traveled to the funeral which took place at the Church of Annunciation in Nazareth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The ultra-Orthodox Israelis from Bnei Brak joined later when the procession reached his final resting place in his hometown of\u00a0Nof Hagalil.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called Khoury, who is from an Arab Catholic family, a \u201chero of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"iw\" dir=\"rtl\">\u05d0\u05de\u05d9\u05e8 \u05d7&#8217;\u05d5\u05e8\u05d9, <br \/>\u05e9\u05e0\u05e4\u05dc \u05d1\u05e4\u05d9\u05d2\u05d5\u05e2 \u05d1\u05d1\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d1\u05e8\u05e7 \u05db\u05e9\u05d4\u05e1\u05ea\u05e2\u05e8 \u05e7\u05d3\u05d9\u05de\u05d4 \u05d5\u05d4\u05e6\u05d9\u05dc \u05d7\u05d9\u05d9 \u05d0\u05d7\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd, <br \/>\u05de\u05d5\u05d1\u05d0 \u05db\u05e2\u05ea \u05dc\u05de\u05e0\u05d5\u05d7\u05d5\u05ea.<\/p>\n<p>\u05d2\u05d9\u05d1\u05d5\u05e8 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc. <\/p>\n<p>\u05d9\u05d4\u05d9 \u05d6\u05db\u05e8\u05d5 \u05d1\u05e8\u05d5\u05da. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2KpUK3bufd\">pic.twitter.com\/2KpUK3bufd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Naftali Bennett \u05d1\u05e0\u05d8 (@naftalibennett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naftalibennett\/status\/1509547094536769537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Khoury,\u00a032, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2022\/03\/31\/a-lion-israeli-police-officer-who-died-while-taking-down-bnei-brak-terrorist-laid-to-rest\/\">eulogized<\/a> as a \u201clion\u201d by his girlfriend of seven years, Shani Yashar. \u201cLove of my life, my heart\u2019s love, my heart. You are a true hero, courageous, a lion like the tattoo on your body. You loved lions. To enter the fire without fear in the eyes,\u201d she said. \u201cI was always proud of you, you are my Amir, my officer. Now you are everyone\u2019s Amir. All the people of Israel thank you. I thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou pledged you would never leave me, that we would marry and have children,\u201d Yashar continued. \u201cI wanted children who were beautiful like you. You promised that nothing would separate us. We overcame every obstacle, but this time we did not overcome, terror overcame us. We said that we are a power together. You promised to take care of yourself, but I knew you would be the first to leap into the fire and defend [others].\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20480960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239639357.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20480960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239639357-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Israeli police officers mourn during the funeral of Israeli police officer Amir Khoury on March 31, 2022 in Nazareth, Israel. (Amir Levy\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Khoury\u2019s father Jiris eulogized his son, saying, \u201cOn Tuesday morning, you left me with an embrace and told me that you would be home on Friday. You returned a day early, in a coffin. I\u2019m sorry that I am separated from you. Children bury their parents, and here everything has turned upside down. My beloved son, I love you. If you had known how many people from across the country called, came to mourn, from Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, Rehovot\u2026 They said they felt an obligation to come embrace you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omer Bar-Lev, Israel\u2019s Minister of Public Security, said Khoury displayed a \u201crare act of courageousness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busload of ultra-Orthodox residents from Bnei Brak, the city in which the last week\u2019s shooting massacre took place, traveled to Israel\u2019s north to pay their respects at the funeral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}