'Ground Zero 360' arrives in Tel Aviv
Travelling exhibition featuring remains of World Trade Center towers, personal belongings and unique photos illustrating 9/11 attacks opens at Rabin Center in the presence of NYC police commissioner.
The opening ceremony was also attended by Rabin Center Chairwoman Dalia Rabin; Israel Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino; Fire and Rescue Services Commissioner Shahar Ayalon; William Grant, the deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv; Dov Shefi, who represented the families of the Israelis killed in the terror attack; and representatives of the families of the victims from New York.
Some half a million people have visited the exhibition so far when it was displayed in the United States and Ireland. It will be open to the public in Israel in the coming month, free of charge.
The exhibition features the personal profile of members of the American security and rescue forces who were killed in the attacks, personal belongings, remains from the World Trade Center towers and unique photos illustrating the disaster.
Dalia Rabin noted in her remarks that the Rabin Center was the most suitable place to display an exhibition commemorating terror victims.
Police Commissioner Danino pointed to the connection between the 9/11 disaster and the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, saying the lesson is that we must not give in to terror. He mentioned the tight security cooperation between Israel and the US.
Commissioner Bratton stressed the connection between the terror offensive in the US and terror attacks against Jews. "We will do everything possible to make sure that never again," he said.
Dov Shefi, whose son was killed in the attack on the World Trade Center, noted that 600 Jews had lost their lives in the 9/11 offensive, including five Israelis: Hagay Shefi, Leon Libor, Daniel Lewin, Alona Avraham and Shai Levinhar, whose daughter was only six weeks old at the time.
