I want the United States to pursue the murderers of my son, Yaakov Natan Mandell. He was a United States citizen and needs to be protected by United States law which offers a 5 million dollar reward for capturing terrorists, except for those terrorists here in Israel.

I want the United States to pursue the murderers of my son, Yaakov Natan Mandell. He was a United States citizen and needs to be protected by United States law which offers a 5 million dollar reward for capturing terrorists, except for those terrorists here in Israel.

Martin Indyk called me during the shiva and I asked him to visit me. He said that “he wasn’t allowed to.” I asked him to call George Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and have them call me. They never called. They didn’t write or send a letter of condolence.

We are being branded war criminals by the UN. Meanwhile the murderers of my son are free–and the United States is not helping to pursue them and bring them to justice.

Koby loved America. He loved baseball and shopping malls and Michael Jordan and Cal Ripken. He still followed sports in America. He had even sent his bar mitzvah invitations to Bill Clinton and Al Gore. We never heard back from them anything, not even a cordial decline.