'9/11 of the Israelis': Bay Area Jewish community reacts to Hamas attacks, kidnappings

Bay Area Jewish synagogues, community groups and Israelis are banding together in the face of the attacks in Israel to fundraise and build support. Many of them have direct ties to friends and family in Israel who have been killed, taken hostage or are injured.

"Israel is a small country. Everyone knows someone." according to Rabbi Dovber Berkowitz with the Chabad of Contra Costa. They are knitting together support in the Bay Area Jewish community in the face of what he called horrific attacks.

Israeli American Yana Agranovsky Berger said, "I'm getting news that people that I know personally are no longer with us. They were brutally murdered, brutally slaughtered. And the news just keeps coming. This is the 911 of the Israelis. This is the 911 of the Israelis. I was raised and grew up in Ashkelon. The city that is right now under tremendous attack of missiles. And my parents right now and my mother in law are in the shelters."

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