It does not clone the event since there is no event to clone.
You never assign a click event to divTemplate
, you only do it to elementHolder which divTemplate is not a child of.
Get rid of worrying about cloning the event and just use bubbling
$("#elementHolder").on("click", "a.del_button", function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
var parentDiv = $(this).closest("div");
alert("Id: " + parentDiv.attr('id'));
});