Several hundred people waving Israeli flags and expressing grief and solidarity held a vigil in New York City on Monday after the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers were discovered. Gil-ad Shaer, 16, Eyal Yifrach, 19, and Naftali Frenkel, 16, were kidnapped Hamas terrorists while hitchhiking in Gush Etzion on June 12. Their bodies were found in a field near Hebron on Monday. Mourners gathered on a busy Manhattan street outside the Israeli Consulate and then, carrying placards bearing the names of the three slain teens, marched to the Isaiah Wall directly across from U.N. headquarters. "Our hearts are broken," Rabbi Avi Weiss, of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, told the crowd. "Our hearts are shattered. And all of the United Nations must speak out. The murder of a person is the murder of a person. But the murder of a child is the murder of the world." Many in the crowd said they had come because they felt powerless and wanted to express support publicly for the families of the teens. "It's hard being so far away and feeling there is so little I can do," said Ilana Shrier, 25, a commercial real estate agent and Hebrew teacher.
