The New York City Police Department is keeping a close eye on synagogues around the city after an attack in Jerusalem left four people dead during a morning prayer service.
Israeli police have identified three American victims killed in the attack in a synagogue in Jerusalem.
An NYPD patrol car sits outside a synagogue on Manhattan’s East Side.
One of them was a rabbi with ties to Yeshiva University here in the city.
Aryeh Kupinsky, Kalmen Levin, and Moshe Twersky died after two Palestinian men armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed the synagogue during morning prayers.
Twersky’s father is the founder of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. His brother is the dean at Yeshiva University’s Theological Seminary in the city.
The men were killed along with a fourth person, who is identified as British.
The attackers were shot dead by police.
This is the deadliest incident Jerusalem has seen in years, and Israeli police are calling it a terrorist act.
It comes amid soaring tensions over a disputed holy site in the city.
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