{"id":82747,"date":"2026-09-01T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/heaton-park-synagogue-attack-memorial-service-attended-by-800\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T04:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:56:02","slug":"heaton-park-synagogue-attack-memorial-service-attended-by-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/heaton-park-synagogue-attack-memorial-service-attended-by-800\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaton Park synagogue attack memorial service attended by 800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yoni Finlay, who was hit by a stray police bullet while helping to barricade the doors during the attack, said: &#8220;An evil person tried to destroy us on Yom Kippur and together we have not let that evil win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I was lying on the floor in the foyer, just through those doors, with four of my organs badly damaged by a bullet that had gone through me, I made myself a promise, that I would not die, this is not where my life was going to end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I could not do this on my own, and neither could the shul. We could only do this with the support of the people around us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he was lucky enough to have an amazing family, &#8220;but we are also an incredible community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I realised that maybe, just maybe, we were going to be okay, when we showed that rather than being stopped, we were more together than ever&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qj9z\/episodes\/player\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today<\/a> programme about how the Jewish community in the UK feels almost a year on, he said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think things feel safer, I think we certainly live behind ever increasing gates, more security than we&#8217;ve ever had.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jewish people are having to hide their identity. Even my own son, who&#8217;s in college at the moment, has faced death threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2z4wlxj04o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoni Finlay, who was hit by a stray police bullet while helping to barricade the doors during the attack, said: &#8220;An evil person tried to destroy us on Yom Kippur and together we have not let that evil win. &#8220;When I was lying on the floor in the foyer, just through those doors, with four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[1653,12341,21601,2170,2715,4183,7051],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82749,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82747\/revisions\/82749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}