Nitzan Schlezinger is all too familiar with security concerns. She lost her father, Asaf Schlezinger, during the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel. He was the chief paramedic at the Nova Music Festival and was killed while treating the injured.

"I imagine him really like a bright spot in this darkness," she said.

Nitzan channeled her grief into action and delivered her speech in English about her father's bravery to a synagogue in Manchester, England. That same synagogue was attacked on Thursday by a man, who police say, rammed his car into worshippers on the Jewish high holy day of Yom Kippur, and then stabbed some.

"Every time I see something like that it's just devastating because can't you just go to your synagogue, right next to your home, and pray," Schlezinger said.

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