Israel 60th Birthday Events - Klinghoffer Memorial Service

The daughters of Leon Klinghoffer will arrive in Israel for a special memorial service on Wednesday at 9 a.m. for all Jews who were murdered abroad.

The event is being coordinated by JAFI.

Palestinian terrorists hijacked the cruise ship - Achille Lauro - in October 1985.

During the hijacking, Leon Klinghoffer - a 69-year-old wheelchair-bound American Jew who was with his wife of 36 years on the cruise - was murdered and dumped into the sea.

Klinghoffer's daughters established the Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation with the Anti-Defamation League. The foundation combats terrorism through educational, political and legal means.