Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited the family home of Greek-Israeli student Ionas Karussis, who was killed in October last year in a Palestinian shooting attack in Jaffa, Tel Aviv.
Mitsotakis, who has previously met Ionas’s parents in Athens and Jerusalem, once again expressed his condolences to the student’s mother, father, and sister. He also informed them of the preparations underway to establish a scholarship program in his memory.
“I simply want to express my admiration for the dignity with which you have confronted this unspeakable tragedy, and I want you to know that both I personally and the government will stand by your side,” the prime minister said.
“You are truly a ‘bridge’ of friendship between the two countries, between the two peoples—two remarkable scientists who raised an extraordinary child and lost him under these tragic circumstances,” he added.
Ionas was the son of Thessaloniki-born doctor Dimitris Karussis, who moved to Israel in the late 1980s. He was killed along with six other people during the attack.