Lucy Dee: Rabbi pays heartbreaking tribute to spouse at her funeral in Israel

A British Rabbi has paid a heartbreaking tribute to his spouse at her funeral immediately, days after she was gunned down in a West Financial institution assault.

Lucy Dee, 45, died yesterday after succumbing to crucial accidents sustained in a drive-by taking pictures within the West Financial institution on Friday.

Her loss of life got here simply at some point after the funeral of her daughters Rina, 15, and Maia, 20, who have been killed immediately within the assault launched by suspected Palestinian gunmen. 

Lucy’s husband Rabbi Leo Dee spoke on the funeral immediately, saying of his slain spouse: ‘Nothing will ever change you, your soul is a part of my soul.’

All three victims have been described as ‘idealistic, pure-hearted and sort’. 

The deadly shootings got here as violence continues to spiral following clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian Muslim worshippers on the al-Aqsa Mosque – a holy web site for each Jews and Muslims – in Jerusalem’s previous city final week amid Jewish Passover celebrations and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. 

The loss of life of Lucy Dee, 45, got here a day after the funeral of her daughters Rina, 15, and Maia, 20, who have been additionally killed. All have been described as ‘idealistic, pure-hearted and sort’ their husband and father, Rabbi Leo Dee (seen far proper)

Three days after the assault, Lucy died in hospital on account of her accidents

Lucy was critically injured within the shock assault on their automobile close to an Israeli settlement within the West Financial institution on Friday. 

On Monday, Israel’s Hadassah hospital introduced that she had died. Hospital employees stated the Dee household has determined to donate her organs to assist save the lives of others.

Rabbi Leo Dee informed a press convention from Erfat Settlement, West Financial institution, on Monday that he had been knowledgeable of an assault and referred to as his household earlier than realising he had acquired a missed name from his daughter Maia.

He stated on the press convention, broadcast on the BBC: ‘I hadn’t seen it ring, I hadn’t picked up the cellphone, the sensation she referred to as me in the course of the assault and I wasn’t capable of converse to her will come again and hang-out me for some time.’

He stated that he noticed {a photograph} on Instagram of his automobile with a bullet gap in it, with the household’s suitcases with blood on them, and drove ‘like a lunatic’ to the scene.

Rabbi Dee informed the BBC that he was capable of determine his daughter Maia on the scene after police produced her id card, and he then drove to the hospital the place his spouse had been taken.

He stated: ‘I went numb. I didn’t cry but, I used to be extremely rational. I drove one other hour and a half to the hospital. Lucy had had two bullets – one by way of the mind stem and one lodged on the prime of her backbone.

‘There was an operation. There was purpose for hope. However alas our household of seven is now a household of 4.’

Rabbi Dee was previously the senior rabbi at Radlett United Synagogue in Hertfordshire and assistant rabbi in Hendon, north London. The sisters have been born in London and the household moved to Israel in 2014, in line with experiences.

His spouse’s funeral earlier immediately got here after Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the ‘abhorrent’ assault. 

The Prime Minister stated: ‘The killing of British-Israeli residents, Maia, Rina and Lucy Dee is abhorrent.

‘The UK condemns this appalling assault on civilians and I ship my deepest condolences to Rabbi Dee and his household.

‘We proceed to induce all sides to de-escalate tensions in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and finish the lethal cycle of violence.’

Israel’s ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely stated: ‘The entire of Israel stands united with Rabbi Leo Dee and his household, following the horrific homicide of his spouse and two daughters.’

Mom Lucy Dee, 45, left, died on account of her accidents following the drive-by taking pictures, three days after her daughters Rina (centre) and Maia (proper) have been killed within the assault

Rabbi Dee described his spouse and daughters as ‘three lovely harmless younger women within the prime of their lives’ and urged individuals to submit photographs of the Israeli flag on social media of their reminiscence.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the British Jewish neighborhood have expressed their condolences to the household.

Mr Netanyahu posted on Twitter: ‘On behalf of all of the residents of Israel, I ship my heartfelt condolences to the Dee household on the loss of life of the mom of the household, the late Leah (Lucy), who was murdered within the extreme assault within the Bekaa final Friday, alongside together with her two daughters Maya and the late Rina.’

The Board of Deputies of British Jews posted: ‘Our hearts exit to the Dee household on the horrible information that Lucy Dee has now additionally handed away after the Palestinian terror assault on Friday that killed two of her daughters, Maia and Rina. 

‘Might their reminiscences be for everlasting blessing.’