Arutz 7 Karen Jemima Mosquera hy''d, fatally wounded last Wednesday by a Hamas terrorist in Jerusalem, succumbed to her wounds
on Sunday and was buried in the capital. She became the second victim
to die from the attack, along with three-month-old Chaya Zisel Braun
hy''d.
A year-and-a-half ago Mosquera came to Israel from her home in
Guayaquil, Ecuador, to complete her conversion to Judaism, a Foreign
Ministry statement on Sunday said. It revealed she chose to convert
after discovering she was descended from Conversos, Spanish Jews
forcibly converted to Catholicism after 1492.
"She spent the last two months in a Midrasha, an institute of
Jewish studies for women, with other women from South America. Prior to
moving to Israel, she had studied Family Psychology at the Catholic
University of Guayaquil and was planning to study archaeology in
Jerusalem," added the statement [...]
"She was a quiet girl who believed in her path, fought to become a
Jew and nothing bothered her," said a friend. Mosquera's bereaved
mother said her daughter’s dream had been to come to Israel and build
her life here, but her life was cut short. [...]
nebach that makes two young pure souls who were without sin.....BDE
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