Beth Israel Synagogue
In 1946, taking into account the growing Jewish population in the Şişli-Osmanbey-Nişantaşı neighborhoods, it was decided to build a larger synagogue to meet the need on the property purchased next to the small place of worship that had existed since the 1920s. In 1951, Architect Deragobyan and Architect Pardo won the project competition and with the quick work of Architect Deragobyan and Architect Pardo, the Rosh Hashanah (New Year's Day in the Hebrew calendar) and Kipur (Day of Atonement) holidays of 1952 At 9:30 on the morning of November 15, 2003, a few minutes after the horrific explosion at the Neve Shalom Synagogue, a pickup truck loaded with ammunition exploded outside the back door of the Şişli Synagogue. Bodies were scattered and buildings collapsed. In these two explosions, a young man named Yoel Kohen Ülçer and security officer Emin Yakupoğlu, who were in front of the Şişli Synagogue, 5 Jews who had no other purpose than to attend Shabbat (Sabbath) prayers and fulfill their religious obligations, and 17 Muslims who were shopkeepers in the neighborhood, a total of 24 people were killed and hundreds of citizens were injured. While the funerals of the victims of the terrorist attack, which took place from Sunday onwards, left the entire nation in mourning, the 6 Jewish victims of the attack, Israel Yoel Yoel Kohen Ülçer, Anet Rubinstein, Anna Rubinstein, Avram Aydın Varol, Berta Özdoğan and Yona Romano, were buried on November 17, 2003 with a sad funeral ceremony in the Ulus Ashkenaz Cemetery in a specially reserved area in front of the monument built in memory of the victims of the 1986 massacre.
