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Speaking from Israel via satellite, Frimet Roth
shared her grief with an audience of more than 3000 - many in school uniforms
- at the Caulfield Hebrew Congregation hall. Malki Roth was killed in a Hamas suicide bombing
at a fast food restaurant in Jerusalem on August 9. Mrs Roth spoke from her house in Jerusalem, with
husband Arnold holding his arm around her as she came close to breaking down. "We always knew Malki was special but now
we're finding out how very, very special she was, more special than we every
imagined," she said. In the days since Malki's death, people have told
the Roths "how she reached out to them and others around them in an
unusual, phenomenal way for a 15-year-old girl. "Whenever she saw anyone who looked unhappy
or had a problem, she would go over and embrace them or listen to them and
help them and counsel them, just on her own." She said Malki helped handicapped people
including her baby sister. In the past few years, Malki "worked
tirelessly for the Israeli youth movement". Mr Roth said the family had been comforted by
messages of sympathy from children including Australians. The Roths were speaking at a day of solidarity
with Israel in the Australia-Asia Pacific region organised by the
Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia with the support of Magen David Adom,
the Israeli ambulance service. The event linked audiences around Australia and
New Zealand in prayer with rabbis and politicians in Israel and England
including Israeli politician Nathan Sharansky and Jerusalem Mayor Ehud
Olmert. Mr Olmert said support from Jewish communities
overseas could "make sure we have the strength and courage to fight for
our lives and our country". Monash University student Anthony Herman, 22, of
Caulfield, who was one of the speakers, said later that he had been back for
a fortnight after working as a volunteer with Magen David Adom for three
months. His call-outs included being on stand-by as a bomb was dismantled in
Haifa. He said many ambulance volunteers were students
and told of one friend who had to be counselled after attending the scene of
a fatal blast.
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