Present were his parents Iona Karoussiwhich was assassinated during a terrorist attack in the Yafa area of Tel Aviv last October. The loss of the 26 -year -old student of architecture, who had double nationality, mourned the Greek Orthodox community of Israel.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Isaac Hertzog expressed their deep pain to their father and mother, while the prime minister, who had previously met them in Athens, announced the institutionalization of a program. scholarship in honor of the wrongful young man. As Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, the aim of the program will be “to bring young students closer to studying either in Israel or in Greece”, reflecting the deep connection of himself and his family with the two countries.
Jonah’s father has previously said that his son’s classmates called him “sunbeam”, nicknamed him “because he reflected everyone the same love and the same enthusiasm of life”.
The new scholarship program “is the least we can do to honor his memory,” the prime minister from Jerusalem said.
