Gavriel Holtzberg
| Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg | |
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Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 June 1979 Kiryat Malakhi, Israel |
| Died | 26 November 2008 (aged 29) Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | American and Israeli |
| Residence | Mumbai, India |
| Parents | Nachman and Freida Holtzberg |
| Spouse | Rivka Rosenberg |
| Children | Menachem Mendel (2003–2006) Dov Ber (2004–2008) Moshe Tzvi (b. November 2006) |
| Occupation | Rabbi of Mumbai Chabad House |
Gavriel Noach Holtzberg (Hebrew: גבריאל נח הולצברג; 9 June 1979 – 26 November 2008) was an Israeli American Orthodox rabbi and the Chabad emissary to Mumbai, India, where he and his wife Rivka ran the Mumbai Chabad House. He was also a religious leader and community builder for the local Jewish Indian community, and led the Friday-night Shabbat services at the Knesset Eliyahoo synagogue. Holtzberg and his wife were killed during the 2008 Mumbai attacks perpetrated by Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Holtzberg was born in Israel to Nachman and Freida Holtzberg. He and his family moved to the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, when he was 9 years old. He had eight siblings. During his years in elementary school, he memorised the entire Second Order (Hebrew: Seder) of the Mishnah, Moed, verbatim and was a two-time champion in a competition of memorizing the Mishnah. During his high school years, Holtzberg was known for his knowledge of the Talmud. He traveled to Jerusalem for an international Talmudic competition, where he came in second.
He studied at yeshivas in New York and Argentina, and as a rabbinical student served communities in Thailand and China under the Summer Rabbinical Visitation Program run by Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of Chabad-Lubavitch.
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