Comprehensive Listing of Fatalities
(September 1993 - Present)
From the Oslo Accords (Sept. 1993) until September 2000 - nearly 300 Israelis were killed in attacks.
During the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Intifada (Sept. 2000 - Dec. 2005) another 1,100 Israelis were killed.
Since December 2005, Palestinian terrorist attacks have claimed at least another 203 Israeli lives.
According to data compiled by the Israeli Shin Bet Security Agency, 2015 was the deadliest year for terrorism since 2008. Twenty-eight people were killed in terror attacks on Israel during 2015: two foreigners, one Palestinian, three members of Israeli security services, and twenty-two civilians.
2017
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Lt. Yael Yekutiel (20), Cadet Shir Hajaj (22), Cadet Shira Tzur (20), Cadet Erez Orbach (20) |
A Palestinian truck driver deliberately drove his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers who had just exited a bus in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017, killing four soldiers and inflicting serious injury on over a dozen more bystanders. The attacker was shot and killed shortly after the attack by Israeli soldiers on the scene. |
2016
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Levana Melihi (60), Yosef Kirme (29) |
Palestinian gunmen opened fire from their car at a light-rail stop outside of the main police station in Ammunition Hill, injuring two victims and killing one. Police gave chase on motorcycles after the vehicle fled the scene of the attack, and shootout ensued. One officer, Yosef Kirme, was killed, and another was wounded. The attacker, a 39-year old Palestinian, was killed as well.
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Michael Mark (40) |
Rabbi Michael Mark, father of ten, was driving his car with his wife and two children along Route 60 near Mount Hebron, when they were cut off by another vehicle, and bullets started flying. Mark's car flipped over after swerving off of the road. When police arrived they found upwards of 20 bullet casings inside Mark's car. Michael Mark died on the scene, and his wife and children who were in the vehicle were treated at a local hospital. The terrorist who killed Rabbi Mark had been in hiding since carrying out the attack, but was located on July 26, 2016, and killed by Israeli security forces.
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Hallel Yaffa Ariel (13) |
13-year old Israeli girl Hallel Yaffa Ariel was stabbed to death in her bed by 19-year old Palestinian Mohammad Tarayreh, who had broken into her home. The attacker was from a nearby village, and climbed the fence into Kiryat Arba before breaking into Ariel's home and locking himself inside, where she was alone. A brigade of local residents, including Ariel's father, realized that the fence had been breached and searched the settlement, eventually finding the attacker who was then killed by security personnel.
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Michael Feige (58), Ido Ben Ari (42), Mila Mishayev (33), Ilana Navaa (39) |
Four Israelis were killed and five injured when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire in the popular Sarona Market in Tel Aviv. The attackers were from the town of Yatta, and came from the same family. They were wearing suits to disguise themselves as ultra-orthodox Jews before they began shooting.
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Taylor Force (28) |
A Palestinian attacker began stabbing random Israelis at the entrance to the Jaffa Port, and wounded four people before taking off away from Israeli security gaurds. The attacker continued to stab pedestrians and motorists as he ran down a residential street, seriously injuring three people before being shot and killed by police. One victim stabbed by the attacker later identified as a American tourist Taylor Force, died of his wounds in an Israeli hospital soon after the attack. Force was a U.S. Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and was on a school sponsored trip to Israel through Vanderbilt University. Although he was with a group of fellow students at the time of the stabbing, he was the only one injured.
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Captain Eilav Gelman (30) |
A Palestinian man attempted to stab a reserve IDF Captain and failed, nearby Israeli security forces saw the incident and responded by attempting to neutralize the stabber. The security forces accidentally shot the stabbing victim and he succumbed to his wounds on the scene. The attacker was lightly wounded and taken to an Israeli hospital for treatment.
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Tuvia Yanai Weissman (18) |
Two teenage Palestinian boys entered a supermarket and stabbed two Israelis, before being apprehended and shot by other customers in the store. One of the victims, off duty IDF soldier 21-year old Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman, was killed.
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Hadar Cohen (19) |
Three terrorists armed with knives, guns, and explosives, attacked a group of IDF soldiers at the Damascus Gate after the soldiers approached them. Three people including two Israeli police officers were seriously injured. 19-year old Israeli officer Hadar Cohen died of her wounds later in the day. The attackers were shot dead on scene by arriving Israeli security forces. The number and scale of the weapons recovered from the attackers made it clear that they were planning a more devastating attack, and the Israeli soldiers sacrificed themselves to protect civilians. Israeli police officers referred to this attack as an escalation, and a turning point, from the types of attacks that they had seen over the previous months. All of the attackers had family members associated with Fatah.
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Shlomit Krigman (38) |
Two Israeli women were stabbed while walking outside of a market in their village. After attacking the women the terrorists, aged 17 and 23, tried to enter the market but were stopped by employees who used shopping carts to block the market entrance. The terrorists were also carrying homemade pipe-bombs and other explosive devices at the time of the attack. One of the victims, 24-year old Shlomit Krigman, died of her wounds the following morning.
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Dafna Meir (38) |
Dafna Meir, an Israeli mother of six was attacked outside of her home by a Palestinian terrorist wielding a knife. The attacker approached from behind and stabbed Meir in the back of the head, and a struggle ensued eventually leading into Meir's home. She was killed by the attacker in her kitchen, but none of her children were harmed. The 16-year old assailant fled the scene, but was arrested two days later and charged with murder.
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Alon Bakal (26), Shimon Ruimi (30) |
At a New Years celebration at a local pub an Arab-Israeli opened fire, killing two individuals (including the pub's manager), and injuring eight. The suspect was located and killed in a shootout on January 8, 2016.
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2015
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Rabbi Rueven Birmajer (45) |
45 year old Rabbi Rueven Birmajer was stabbed and killed by a Palestinian assailant outside Jaffa Gate, a bystander was hit and killed by a stray bullet as Israeli security forces attempted to subdue the attacker. The attacker was shot and killed on scene.
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Genadi Kaufman (40) |
A 40-year old Israeli man was injured in a stabbing attack near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The attacker was shot and killed by police witnesses. The victim, identified as Genadi Kofman, died of his wounds three weeks later, on December 30.
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Unnamed Victim (18) |
An 18-year old Israeli soldier was stabbed to death at a gas station by a Palestinian, in an attack that left two others lightly wounded and the assailant dead. The victim had sustained severe abdominal stab wounds and was pronounced dead by paramedics.
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Aharon Yesiab (32), Reuven Aviram (51), Ezra Schwartz (18), Ya’acov Don (51) |
Two Israeli Jews were stabbed to death and two seriously injured by a 39-year old Palestinian from the West Bank, who was apprehended at the scene and taken to an Israeli hospital with minor injuries. The stabbing attack took place at the entrance to the synagogue next to the Panorama office building in Southern Tel Aviv, as afternoon prayers were going on.
In a separate incident, a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on cars stuck in a traffic jam in Gush Etzion, killing an Israeli, an American tourist, and a Palestinian, and wounding seven others. Five of the wounded were American Yeshiva students. After the shooting the terrorist sped off in a car but rammed into another car, attempted to flee on foot, and was then arrested by Israeli security forces. The American victim was identified later in the day as 18-year old Ezra Schwartz, from Massachusetts.
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Father (40) and Son (18) |
An Israeli father and his 18-year old son were killed after two Palestinians opened-fire into their vehicle as they were driving. The mother of the family was shot as well but lightly wounded, a second son was slightly injured, and the family's three daughters who had been riding in the back were unharmed. Allegedly the first ambulance to arrive on scene was a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance, and after the driver realized that the victims were Jews the ambulance drove away.
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Staff Seargent Benjamin Yaakovovich (19) |
An Israeli security officer was hit by a car driven by a Palestinian, who was then shot at the scene. The 19-year old security officer was seriously injured after the Palestinian man purposefully rammed into him, and was taken to a local hospital. The victim, 19-year old Staff Seargent Benjamin Yaakovovich, died of his wounds four days later.
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Omri Levy (19) |
21 year old Palestinian assailant Muhanad Alukabi took the rifle of 19 year old Israeli soldier Omri Levy, and killed him with it. He opened fire in a crowded bus station with the rifle, and injured 11 other people. An Eritrean immigrant was shot by an Israeli security guard and beaten to death by an Israeli mob, suspected of being a second attacker.
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Richard Lakin (76) |
Shooting and stabbing attack on bus in southern Jerusalem neighborhood (Armon Hanatziv). Two (ages 60 & 45) killed, 15 wounded, several seriously. Police shot and killed one of the 2 terrorist perpetrators and apprehended the second (both from Jabel Muqaber). One of the injured victims (76 year old Richard Lakin) died of his wounds two weeks later.
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Aharon Banita-Bennet (22), Rabbi Nehemia Lavi |
Two killed in stabbing attack near Lion’s Gate. Aharon Banita-Bennet (22) was stabbed to death on the way to the Western Wall in the Old City on Saturday evening with his wife and two young children. His wife and two-year-old son were wounded. Rabbi Nehemia Lavi (father of seven), who came to the aid of the Banita-Bennett family, was attacked and stabbed to death. Police shot and killed the attacker.
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Hadar Buchris (21), Ziv Mizrahi (20) |
A 21-year old Israeli woman, Hadar Buchris, was stabbed at a bus stop in Gush Etzion. She was brought to a local hospital in critical condition but died of her wounds soon after her arrival. Israeli security forces shot and killed the assailant.
A 20-year old Israeli soldier was stabbed to death at a gas station by a Palestinian, in an attack that left two others lightly wounded and the assailant dead. The victim had sustained severe abdominal stab wounds and was pronounced dead by paramedics.
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Reuven Aviram (51), Rabbi Aharon Yesiab (32), Yaakov Don (51), Ezra Schwartz (18) |
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed two people to death in the Panorama office building, outside the door of a room in the building used for prayer where afternoon services were taking place. Two more individuals sustained minor injuries. Workers in the Panorama building were instructed to go into lockdown as police searched for a possible second attacker.
In a seperate incident later in the day, a Palestinian attacker opened fire with an uzi machine gun on Israeli vehicles in Gush Etzion sitting in traffic. Three people were killed in the attack, including an American student participating in a gap-year educational program, an Israeli man, and a Palestinian man. The suspect was arrested at the scene.
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Rabbi Yaakov Litman (40), Netanel Litman (18) |
Yaakov Litman and his son Netanel were shot to death by Palestinian gunmen who opened fire on their vehicle neat the Otniel junction in Southern West Bank. The two were seated in the front seats of their car when the terrorist opened fire. Litman's wife, who sustained minor injuries, and three daughters were in the back seat of the car.
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Staff Seargent Benjamin Yaakovovich (19) |
A Palestinian terrorist purposefully rammed his car into Staff Seargent Benjamin Yaakovovich, seriously injuring him. The perpetrator was apprehended directly following the attack, but Yaakovovich died of his wounds four days later.
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Avraham Asher Hasano (50) |
Israeli citizen Avraham Asher Hasano was driving in Fawwar, south of Hebron, when Palestinians began pelting his car with stones and he was unable to drive. He exited his vehicle and was hit by a truck and was killed.
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IDF Soldier
Omri Levy (19) |
21 year old Palestinian assailant Muhanad Alukabi took the rifle of 19 year old Israeli soldier Omri Levy, and killed him with it. He opened fire in a crowded bus station with the rifle, and injured 11 other people. An Eritrean immigrant was shot by an Israeli security guard and beaten to death by an Israeli mob, suspected of being a second attacker.
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Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky (60), Haim Haviv (78), Alon Govberg (59), Richard Lakin (76). |
Two Israelis were killed and fifteen injured in a stabbing and shooting attack on a bus in Southern Jerusalem. The attackers stormed the bus and blocked people from getting off, while attempting to take control of the wheel and ram the bus into a crowded public place. One assailant opened fire with a gun while the other stabbed the bus passengers. Israeli police killed one attacker and managed to take the other into custody. One of the people injured in the attack, 76 year old Richard Lakin, died of his injuries two weeks after the attack. Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky was struck by a car in Jerusalem simultaneously as the bus attack was happening. He was taken to a local hospital but died of his wounds.
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Nahmia Lavi (23), Aaron Bennet (24) |
A Palestinian man approached a group of Israelis in Jerusalem's Old City on October 3, 2015, and began stabbing, according to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. The attacker injured one woman and her baby, and stabbed two other members of the group to death. Israeli police shot the attacker on site, where he died. Palestinian Islamic Jihad issued a statement claiming the attacker was a member of their organization. |
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Eitam Henkin, Naama Henkin (both early 30's) |
Eitam and his wife Naama were ambushed by Palestinian gunmen as they drove with their four children, all under the age of 10, in the West Bank on October 1, 2015. The gunmen shot Eitam and Naama multiple times and they were pronounced dead at the scene, while the children who had just witnessed their parents murder were only lightly injured. They were buried the following day, and Eitam's parents stated at his funeral that they would raise the children as their own. The funeral was attended by Israeli President Rueven Rivlin, who delivered a eulogy. During the subsequent week it was revealed that the husband, Eitam, was an American citizen, and five Hamas members were arrested in connection with the attack. |
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Alexander Levlovitz (64) |
Alexander Levlovitz was killed after the car that he was driving was struck by stones thrown by Palestinian youths. He lost control of the vehicle and crashed while on the way home from celebrating Rosh Hashanah with his family, seriously injuring two female passengers and sustaining injuries himself that would eventually claim his life. Four Palestinian youths were arrested during the following weeks. |
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Malachi Rosenfeld (25) |
Rosenfeld and a group of three friends were attacked by a Palestinian individual with a gun on the evening of June 29, 2015 in the Binyamin region, North of Tel Aviv. Rosenfeld's three friends sustained less serious injuries, but Rosenfeld succumbed to his bullet wounds the next day. The Shin Bet arrested the suspects who carried out the attack on July 19, 2015. The attack was perpetrated by Hamas member Ahmed Najar, who was one of the prisoners released during the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal in 2011. |
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Danny Gonen (25) |
Danny Gonen was travelling in the West Bank in his vehicle with another 25-year old friend, when he was waved down on the side of the road by a Palestinian man seeming to need their assistance. The man opened fire on the vehicle, striking Gonen multiple times but leaving his friend relatively unharmed. Gonen was airlifted to a hospital but died of his wounds. Hamas issued a statement claiming that they “welcome this excellent and heroic attack.” The individual who attacked and killed Gonen was arrested three weeks later by Shin Bet security forces. |
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Shalom Sherki (25) |
Shalom Sherki was killed and his girlfriend was seriously injured on Holocaust Rememberance Day, when West Bank resident Khaled Koutineh ran his car into a bus stop in Jerusalem. Koutineh was arrested and after questioning admitted to perpetrating the attack. Sherki was the son of a prominent Israeli Rabbi, and hundreds of people attended his funeral. Weeks after his death, security camera footage was released, cleatly demonstrating that Koutineh deliberately rammed his car into Sherki and his girlfriend. To view the footage, click here. |
2014
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Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg (68), Rabbi Moshe Twersky (60), Aryeh Kupinsky (43), Rabbi Kalman Zeev Levine (55), Master Sergant Zidan Sif (30) , Chaim Yechiel Rothman (55) |
On November 17 2014 two Palestinian cousins Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal entered the Kehilat Yaakov Synagogue in Jerusalem at 7am armed with knives, meat cleavers, hatchets and guns, and began opening fire and wildly slashing at the estimated 25 individuals inside. The attack killed five individuals including three US citizens holding dual US-Israel citizenships and a policeman responding to the attack, and injured six others including one more policeman who was injured during the shootout with the terrorists. Both attackers were from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, and were known associates of the terrorist organization the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In response to this attack, Israel's Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich announced that weapons carrying restrictions would be temporarily eased for private security gaurds and off duty IDF soldiers. Police officer Master Sergant Zidan Sif, who gave his life protecting others, will be posthumously awarded the Israeli Medal of Distinguished Service, the third highest honor that can be bestowed on an Israeli officer. At Sif's funeral the Rabbi of Kehilat Yaakov praised Sif for standing "like a wall" protecting the individuals inside. Almost a full year after the attack, victim Chaim Yechiel Rothman died of his wounds at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. |
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Dalia Lamkus (25), Almog Shiloni (20) |
A young woman, Dalia Lamkus was stabbed to death by an individual associated with the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization on November 10th. The suspect, Maher Hamdi A-Shalmon is a resident of Hebron and spent 5 years in prison from 2000-2005 for throwing a firebomb at IDF troops. 2 other individuals were stabbed during the attack as well, a 26 and a 50 year old man, who both sustained injuries that required medical attention. Earlier in the day an Israeli soldier Almog Shlioni was stabbed in a seperate incident while standing at a train station in Tel Aviv. He was treated for his multiple stab wounds at the scene and then airlifted to Sheba Medical Center where he succumbed to his stab wounds later that day. The suspect was apprehended and was turned over to the Shin Bet for interrogation. |
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Jedan Assad (38) |
In a similar attack to the one that claimed the lives of a 3 month old child and a 22 year old woman on October 22, a Palestinian man drove his car into a light-rail station on November 5. The attack left one Israeli Border Police officer dead and 14 other individuals injured. The Border Police officer was identified as Jedan Assad, a Druze from Beit Jann. He leaves behind a 3 year old son and a wife 5 months pregnant with their next child. The terrorist drove the car into a crowd at a light-rail station, and then continued driving along the light-rail tracks before crashing his car and getting out brandishing a metal bar. He used the metal bar to attack Israeli police who were standing nearby, and was then shot by the officers. The man was later identified as Ibrahim al-Akary, a man whose brother had spent 19 years in an Israeli prison and was released as part of the Gilad Shalit deal. |
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Chaya Zissel Braun (3 months), Karen Mosquera (22) |
On the afternoon of Wednesday October 22 a 3 month old baby girl was killed when a Palestinian individual rammed his car into a group of Israelis waiting for the light-rail train at the Ammunition Hill station. The individual attempted to flee the scene but was shot in the chest by Israeli security personnel and later died of the wounds in an Israeli hospital. The individual had a record of security related offenses and had served time in prison before. 8 other individuals were wounded in the attack, including Karen Mosquera who days later died of her wounds at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Israeli police confirmed that the baby who was killed had an American passport and her parents were American citizens who had come to Israel to study in the Yeshiva. The following day, Hamas confirmed that the driver of the car was a member, and members of Fatah celebrated the martyrdom of the terrorist on Facebook and in the streets of Gaza. On November 19 the Isreali military levelled the home of the individual responsible for the attack. |
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Sergeant Netanel Maman (21) |
Maman was a soldier in the IDF but was not on duty when he was killed. A rocket struck near a car that he was sitting in and he succumbed to his wounds from shrapnel later in the week. |
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Ze'ev Etzion, (50)- Kibbutz Nirim; Shahar Melamed, (43)- Kibbutz Nirim. |
These two men were killed in the hours before the extended cease-fire took effect on Tuesday August 26. They were killed by a mortar fired on their Kibbutz. Etzion was the Security Chief of the Kibbutz and Melamed was his Deputy. |
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Daniel Tregerman (4) |
Daniel Tregerman was the first Israeli child casualty during Operation Protective Edge. He was killed by a mortar while his parents rushed to get his younger siblings into their home bomb shelter in Sha'ar HaNegev. He was laid to rest on Sunday August 24th. |
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Lt. Hadar Goldin, (23)-Kfar Saba; Maj. Benaya Sarel, (26)- Kiryat Arba; Staff Sgt. Liel Gidoni, (20)- Jerusalem. |
These three brave IDF soldiers were killed in an ambush attack while they were inspecting a terror tunnel dug by Hamas. It was originally thought that Lt Hadar Goldin had been abducted by Hamas following the attack, but it was later deduced that he had died in the ensuing gun fight. Unfortunately Hadar Goldin's body was not recovered, and in September 2016 Israel's mission to the United Nations sponsored a display of his artwork at the U.N. headquarters in a project titled “Bring Hadar Home.” |
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Cpt Liran Adir, (31)- Ezuz; Staff Sgt. Noam Rosenthal, (20)- Meitar; Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Marash, (22)- Rishon LeZion; Capt. Omri Tal, (22)- Yehud; Staff Sgt. Shay Kushnir, (20)- Kiryat Motzkim. |
These young men died when a mortar was fired at their station post along the border with the Gaza Strip. |
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Staff Sgt. Eliav Eliyahu Haim Kahlon, (22)- Safed; Corp. Meidan Maymon Biton, (20)- Netivot; Corp. Niran Cohen, (20)- Tiberias; Staff Sgt. Adi Briga, (23)- Beit Shikma. |
Four people were killed and six wounded by mortar fire on Eshkol during Operation Protective Edge. Because the attack was conducted by mortars and not rockets, there was no Code Red alert. |
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Maj. Tsafrir Baror, (32) - Holon; Capt. Tsvi Kaplan, (28), - Kedumim; Sgt. Gilad Rozenthal Yacoby (21) - Kiryat Ono; Sgt. Oz Mandelovich, (21), - Avtalion; Nissim Sean Carmeli, (21) - Ra’anana, Maj. Atmoz Greenberg, Sgt. Gilad Yaakovi (21) - Kiryat Ono, Max Greenberg - Beersheba |
During Operation Protective Edge, 13 Israeli soldiers were killed when an armored troop carrier in Sejaiya took a direct hit from a shoulder-launched anti-tank missile. Six Israeli soldiers were killed in the fighting that followed. |
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Name Not Yet Released (37) |
This victim was a civilian who had volunteered to distribute food parcels to Israeli soldiers near the Erez crossing with Gaza when he was critically wounded by mortar fire and later died of his injuries. |
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Naftali Frankel (16), Gilad Shaar (16), Eyal Yifracah (19) |
Frankel, Shaar, and Yifrach were hitchhiking home from attending yeshiva in Gush Etzion when they disappeared. After a three week search their bodies were found near Halhul, a short drive away from where they wer abducted. This attack is the spark that began Operation Protective Edge. |
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Shelley Dadon (19) - Afula |
Dadon's body was found in a parking lot in Migdal Haemek with serious trauma including stab wounds. It took some time to solve the crime, but police determined she was killed for nationalistic reasons. |
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Baruch Mizrahi (47) - Modi'in |
Mizrahi was an off duty senior police officer who was on his way to a holiday Seder when he was shot to death by Palestinian terrorists. |
2013
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Salah Shukri Abu Latyef (21) - Rahat |
Abu Latyef was killed by a Palestinian sniper while working on repairs to the Gaza border fence as a civilian contractor for the Israel Defense Ministry. The inicdent occured very close to the northern section of the Gaza-Israel border and resulted in only the injuries to Abu Latyef, who was immediately transported to Saroka Hospital where he was declared dead. |
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Shlomi Cohen (31) -
Afula |
Cohen, a Petty Officer 1st Class in the Israeli Navy, was shot and killed by a Lebanese sniper while driving near the Israel-Lebanon border fence in an unarmored military vehicle. Cohen was on operational duty at the time of his death. Investigation found that he was shot six to ten times from a distance of approximately 200 yards. |
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Eden Atias (18) - Nazareth Illit |
Private Eden Atias was killed after being stabbed in the neck while on a bus in the northern Israeli city of Afula. He was rushed to a hospital in the city but later died of his wounds. Security guards stopped the assailant - Hussein Jawadra, a 16-year-old Palestinian from Jenin who is residing in Israel illegally. He is said to have acted alone though the motivation for the terror attack may have been connected to Jawadra's two cousins who are held in Israeli jails for murder. |
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Seraya Ofer (61) -
Brosh Habikah |
Ofer, a retired IDF colonel, was murdered in a suspected terror attack outside his home in the northern Jordan Valley. Ofer's wife, Monique, told security forces her husband was bludgeoned to death by two Palestinians wielding iron bars and axes. According to Monique, at around 1 am they heard suspicious noises outside their home and her husband was attacked by the Palestinians as he stepped outside to investigate. |
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Gavriel Kobi (20) -
Tirat Carmel |
Kobi, a combat soldier in the Givati Brigade, was shot and killed by a Palestinian sniper while on guard duty positioned outside the holy Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Kobi was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where doctors tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead soon after arrival. “From what we see, the shooting occurred over a long distance,” a senior IDF source said. “At this stage, we have no clear direction as to the identity of the shooter.” |
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Tomer Hazan (20) -
Bat Yam |
Hazan, a non-combat sergeant in the Air force and a Bat Yam native, was lured by a Palestinian acquaintance - Nidal Amar - to the village of Beit Amin near Qalqilya in the West Bank. Amar took Hazan to an open field, murdered him and threw the body into a well. Amar was supposedlt hoping to use corpse to extort the release of his terrorist brother from Israeli jail. |
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Evyatar Borovsky (31) - Yitzhar |
Borovsky, a father of five, was stabbed to death in the early morning by a Palestinian terrorist as he waited for a ride at the bus station near the city of Ariel in the West Bank. The Palestinians, 24 years old from Tulkarm, then stole Borovsky's pistol and began firing at a border police checkpoint in the area before he was incapacitated by the soldiers manning the post. Borovsky is survived by his wife and five children. |
2012
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Lt. Boris Yarmulnik (28) - Netanya |
Yarmulnik, an IDF reservist called to Gaza during Operation Pillar of Defense, succumbed to head injuries suffered during a rocket attack. Five other soldiers were also wounded in the attack and are listed in good to moderate condition. |
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Cpl. Yosef Fartuk (18) - Emmanuel;
Alayaan Salem al-Nabari - Negev |
Fartuk, a corporal in the IDF, was killed when a rocket launched by terrorists in the Gaza Strip exploded in his vicinity in the Eshkol regional council. al-Nabari, an Israeli bedouin, was killed in a rocket attack. |
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Mirah Scharf (25);
Aharon Smadga (40);
Yitzhak Amselam (22) - Kiryat Malachi |
Two men and one woman were killed when a rocket fired by Hamas terrorists in Gaza directly struck the apartment in which they lived. According to Israeli sources, the three were not in the bomb shelter of the building. Mirah Scharf, the woman killed, was a mother of three and pregnant of the time. Three children - including a four year boy and two babies - were also wounded as a result of the rocket strike. |
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Cpl Netanel Yahalomi (20) -
Nof Ayalon |
The 20 year old soldier in the Artillery Corps was killed when during a firefight with terrorists along Israel's southern border with Egypt. Reports from the scene indicate that the terrorists fired on Yahalomi and other soldiers after they had descended from guard towers to bring water and food to a group of African refugees camped next to Israel's security barrier. |
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Said Pashpasha (36) - Haifa |
The father of three was killed when terrorists infiltrated Israel from Sinai and led a coordinated attack against those constructing the fence on the Israel-Egypt border. The attacking terrorists used automatic rifles in addition to anti-tank missiles. |
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Staff-Sgt Netanel Moshiashvili (21) - Ashkelon |
Killed when a terrorist infiltrating Israel from the southern Gaza Strip opened fire at his IDF unit which has been sent to identify and stop any terror attacks. Soldiers responded to the incident and killed the attacking terrorist. |
2011
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Moshe Ami (56) - Ashkelon |
Killed when shrapnel from a GRAD rocket fired by terrorists in Gaza hit his car. Wounded in the abdomen by the shrapnel, Ami's condition quickly deteriorated and he later died on the operating table at Barzilai Medical Center. He is survived by his mother Zvia, sister Zehava, children- Nira, Shlomi, Rachel and Yossi- & 5 grandchildren. |
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Asher Palmer (25);
Yonatan Palmer (1) -
Kiryat Arba |
The father and his one year old son were killed when their car careened off of Route 60 in the West Bank near Hebron after being struck by stones thrown by Palestinians. |
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Eliyahu Naim (79) - Ashkelon |
Naim sustained serious head injury while running for cover during a rocket attack on Ashkelone, he died at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on Sept 4, 2011. |
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Yossi Shoshan (38) - Ofakim |
Killed when a
GRAD rocket shot by terrorists in the Gaza strip landed near him in
Be'er Sheva as he was driving to find his wife who was hiding from the
attacks. Shoshan is survived by his wife who was nine months pregnant
at the time of his death. |
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Flora Gaz (52);
Moshe Gaz (53);
Shula Karlinsky (54); Dov Karlinsky (58);
Yosef Levi (58);
Yitzhak Sela (56);
St-Sgt Moshe Naftali (22);
Chief Wrnt Officer Pascal Avrahami (49)
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Eight Israeli citizens
were killed and more than 40 wounded in a multi-pronged terrorist attack
north of Eilat in southern Israel. Five civilians were killed when terrorists
opened fire on a passenger bus and another civilian was killed in a
separate attack on an empty bus. An IDF combat soldier was killed when
his jeep hit an IED placed on the road and a member of the Israeli police
special SWAT unit was killed when his unit led heavy fighting against
a group of retreating terrorists. |
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Ben-Yosef Livnat (24) - Jerusalem |
Killed by a Palestinian policeman
while visiting Joseph's Tomb in Nablus |
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Daniel
Viflic (16) -
Bet Shemesh |
Viflic suffered mortal wounds when an anti-tank missile was fired by Hamas terrorists at a school bus in souther Israel just moments after it had dropped off the rest of the
school children. The teenager died from his injuries on April 17. |
|
Mary Jean Gardner (55) - U.K. |
Gardner, a British tourist studying at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, was
killed when a bomb exploded across from the Jerusalem
Convention Center, near the Central Bus Station. The bomb had been placed near
a telephone booth at a crowded bus stop. |
|
Udi Fogel (36);
Ruth Fogel (35);
Yoav (11);
Elad (4);
Hadas (3 months) |
Parents Udi and Ruth, along with three of their young children, were stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists inside their home in the village of Itamar in ther northern West Bank during a Sabbath night. Three other children were thankfully not home at the time. |
2010
|
Kristine Luken (46) - U.S.A. |
Luken, a US citizen living in England and touring in Israel, was stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists while hiking in the hills west of Jerusalem with a friend. |
|
Yitzhak Ames (47); Talya Ames (45)
Avishai Shindler (24); Kochava Chaim (37) |
The four Israelis, including a married couple, were murdered in their vehicle in a Hamas terrorist drive-by shooting attack on Route 60 near Kiryat Arba, east of Hebron. |
|
Sgt. Maj. Shuki Sofer (39) - Beersheva |
The IDF officer was killed, and three Israeli policemen were wounded, when Palestinian terrorists opened fire on their vehicle at Al Fawar Junction south of Hebron. |
|
Maj. Eliraz Peretz (32) - Eli
St.Sgt. Ilai Sviatkovsky (21) -Rishon Lzion |
The two IDF officers were killed in an exchange of fire with terrorists who were planting explosives along the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. |
|
Manee Singmueangphon (34) - Thailand |
The foreign worker was killed when a Kassam rocket hit the hothouse area in Netiv Ha'asara, a moshav in the Ashkelon coastal region, north of the Gaza Strip. |
|
First Sgt Ihab Khatib (28) - Kfar Maghar |
Khatib, of the Arab-Druze village of Kfar Maghar, was knifed to death at the Tapuach junction in the West Bank by a senior Palestinian police officer. |
2009
|
Rabbi Meir Chai (45) - Shavei Shomron |
Rabbi Chai, of a village just west of Nablus in the northern West Bank, was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by shooting near his home. |
|
Gregory Rabinowitz (56) - Ashdod |
Kidnapped and strangled to death
by 3 Palestinian near Gan
Yavne in the West Bank. |
|
Shlomo Nativ (13) - Gush Etzion |
The teenager was murdered by an axe-wielding terrorist in his home town of Bat Ayin. |
|
Senior Wrnt Ofcr Yehezkel Ramzarkar (50)
Warrant Officer David Rabinowitz (42) |
Two senior police officers - Ramzarkar of Maale Ephraim and Rabinowitz of Ariel - were killed in a
shooting attack near Massua in the northern Jordan
Valley. |
|
Unpublished IDF Soldier |
An IDF NCO tracker was killed
and three other soldiers wounded when an
explosive device was detonated at an IDF
patrol on the Israeli side of the Gaza Strip
security fence near the Kissufim Crossing.
The name of the tracker, a Bedouin from Rahat,
has been withheld at the request of his family.
An Islamist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda
calling itself the 'Jihad and Tawhid Brigades'
claimed responsibility for the attack. |
2008
|
Warrant Officer Lutfi Nasraladin (38) |
Nasraladin, a police officer from the Druze town of of Daliat el-Carmel,
was killed on a military
base near Nahal Oz by a mortar attack from Gaza. |
|
Irit Sheetrit (39) - Ashdod |
Sheetrit was killed and several others wounded when a GRAD
rocket exploded in the center of Ashdod.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. |
|
Hani al-Mahdi (27) - Aroar |
al-Mahdi, from the Bedouin settlement of Aroar in southern Israel, was killed
when a GRAD missile fired from Gaza
exploded at his construction site in Ashkelon. |
|
Beber
Vaknin (58) - Netivot |
Killed when a
rocket fired from Gaza hit his apartment building
in Netivot. |
|
Avraham
Ozeri (86) - Jerusalem |
Stabbed to death near his
home in Gilo by an Arab terrorist
from the village of Tekoa. |
|
L-Cpl David Chriqui (19) - Rishon Lzion |
Chriqui, a patrolman in the Border Police, was critically wounded in a terrorist
attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. He succumbed
to his wounds on July 23. |
|
Lili Goren-Friedman (54) - Jerusalem
Batsheva Unterman (33) - Jerusalem
Jean Relevy (68) - Jerusalem |
The three women were killed and another 50 were wounded
in a terror attack in Jerusalem. Driving
a bulldozer on Jaffa Road between the Central
Bus Station and the Mahane Yehuda market, the
terrorist plowed into cars and pedestrians
as well as two public buses carrying some 50 passengers.
Police shot and killed the terrorist. |
|
Amnon Rosenberg (51) - Kibbutz Nirim |
Rosenberg was killed and four others were wounded when a mortar bomb
fired by Palestinian terrorists fom the
Gaza Strip exploded outside the Nirlat paint
factory in Kibbutz Nir-Oz. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack. |
|
Shuli
Katz (70) - Kibbutz Gevaram |
Killed
by rocket fire while visiting relatives in a town 9 miles from the Gaza Strip. |
|
Jimmy
Kadoshim (48) - Kfar Aza |
Killed
by mortar fire from the Gaza Strip while
tending his garden. |
|
Shimon Mizrahi (53) - Bat Hefer
Eli
Wasserman (51) - Alfei Menashe |
The two security guards
were killed in
a shooting attack in the Nitzanei Shalom
industrial park in central Israel. A terrorist
managed to infiltrate the area, opened
fire at the guards at close range and fled.
The Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic JIhad
organization and Izzadin al-Qassam of Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack. |
|
Sgt. Menhash
al-Banyat (20) - Kseife
Sgt. Matan Ovdati (19) - Moshav Patish
Sgt. David Papian (21) - Tel Aviv
|
The three IDF soldiers were killed in a confrontation with armed
Palestinian gunmen approaching the Gaza
security fence south of the Nahal Oz fuel
terminal. Three other soldiers were wounded in the same incident. |
|
Oleg Lipson (37) - Beersheva
Lev Cherniak (53) - Beersheva |
Killed when
Palestinian terrorists, after firing a
salvo of mortars at the Nahal Oz area,
penetrated the fuel terminal and opened
fire on the civilian employees. |
|
St.-Sgt. Sayef Bisan (21) - Jat |
Bisan, a Druze soldier from the Western Galilee, was killed in an exchange of fire
with Palestinian terrorists in an overnight
IDF operation against terror infrastructure
in the southern Gaza Strip. Two other soldiers
were wounded. |
|
Segev Peniel Avihail (15) - Neve Daniel
Neria Cohen (15) - Jerusalem
Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar (16) - Shilo
Yehonadav Hirschfeld (19) - Kohav Hashahar
Yohai Lifshitz (18) - Jerusalem
Doron Meherete (26) - Ashdod
Avraham David Moses (16) - Efrat
Ro'i Roht (18) - Elkana
|
Eight students of the Mercaz
Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem were brutallly killed
when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov
assault rifle infiltrated the yeshiva and
opened fire in the library where about
80 people, mostly teenagers and teachers, were gathered for religious study.
Eleven others were wounded, three
critically. The terrorist, a resident of
East Jerusalem, was killed by an IDF officer. |
|
St. Sgt Liran Banai (20) - Ashkelon
Unidentified Soldier (27) |
An unidentified IDF soldier - a Bedouin tracker - was killed during a routine patrol
along the security fence in the central
Gaza Strip, near Kissufim, when Palestinian
terrorists detonated an explosive device
near his jeep. Hamas
and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack. St.-Sgt. Banai, the jeep
driver, was critically wounded and later succumbed to his injuries on March 9. |
|
St. Sgt. Doron Asulin (20) -
Beersheba
St. Sgt. Eran Dan-Gur (20) - Jerusalem
|
The two IDF officers were killed in an exchange
of fire with Hamas terrorists during an
IDF anti-terror operation in northern Gaza
targeting rocket launchings. The gunmen
reportedly fired mortar shells, antitank
and RPG missiles at the soldiers. |
|
Roni Yihye (47) - Moshav Bitcha |
Yihye, a student at Sapir
College, was killed Wednesday afternoon
when a Kassam rocket exploded in a parking
lot near the Sderot campus. He died shortly
after sustaining massive wounds to his
chest. Hamas claimed responsibility for
the attack. |
|
Lyubov Razdolskaya (73) - Dimona |
Razdolskaya was killed and 38 others wounded - including Razdolskaya's
husband - in a terror attack
carried out by a suicide bomber at a shopping
center in Dimona. A police officer shot
and killed a second terrorist before he
detonated his explosive belt. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack and praised
it as an “heroic act.” |
|
L-Cpl Rami Zuari (20) - Beersheva |
Zuari, a Border Policeman, was shot and
killed at a checkpoint at the northern
entrance to Shuafat, north of Jerusalem.
The Battalions of Struggle and Return,
a previously anonymous offshoot of Fatah's
Aksa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack. |
|
Carlos Andrés
Chávez (21) - Ecuador |
The young volunteer from Quito, Ecuador, was killed by a Palestinian
sniper from the Gaza Strip as he was working
in the fields of Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha.
The Hamas Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades
claimed responsibility for the shooting. |
2007
|
Cpl. Ahikam Amihai (20) - Kiryat Arba
Sgt. David Rubin (21) - Kiryat Arba
|
Killed by Palestinian terrorists while
hiking in the Hebron area. The two Palestinian
terrorists turned themselves in to Palestinian
General Intelligence in Hebron the same
day in order to avoid being apprehended
by Israeli security forces. |
|
Ido Zoldan (29) - Shavei Shomron |
Killed in a shooting attack near Kedumim
in the northern West Bank, when terrorists
opened fire from a passing car around midnight. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility for the terror attack. |
|
Maj.
Ehud Efrati (34) - Beit Yehoshua |
Efrati, an IDF reservist officer. was killed
in an exchange of fire with Palestinian
terrorists in southern Gaza Strip, near
the Sufa crossing. |
|
Sgt. Ben Kubani (20) - Hadera |
Killed in an exchange of fire with
Palestinian terrorists during IDF activity targeting
the terror infrastructure near Khan Younis
in the southern Gaza Strip. |
|
St.Sgt. Ben-Zion Haneman (21) -Moshav Nov |
Killed in an exchange of fire with terrorists
during IDF activity against a terror attack
being jointly planned by operatives of
the Hamas and the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organizations
in the Ein Beit Ilmeh refugee camp in the
West Bank city of Nablus. |
|
St Sgt. Arbel Reich (21) - Yuvalim |
Killed when Hamas
terrorists ambushed IDF troops engaged
in anti-terror activity in the Bureij
refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The
terrorists detonated previously
planted explosive devices and then opened
fire with RPG's and
machine guns. |
|
Oshri Oz (36) - Hod Hasharon |
Killed when a Kassam rocket landed
near his car in Sderot. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack. |
|
Shirel Friedman (32) - Sderot |
Killed when a Kassam rocket fired by terrorists in Gaza scored
a direct hit on her car near the
shopping center in the center of town. |
February
25 |
Erez Levanon (42) - Bat Ayin |
The body of Levanon, from the Gush Etzion settlement
bloc,
was found near Beit Omar, north of Halhul.
He was killed by multiple stab wounds |
January
29 |
Emi Haim Elmaliah (32) - Eilat
Michael Ben Sa'adon (27) - Eilat
Israel Zamalloa (26) - Eilat |
Three people were killed in a
suicide bombing at a residential bakery in the southern city of Eilat.
The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack,
along with the unknown “Army of Believers.” |
2006
February 5 - Kinneret Ben
Shalom Hajbi, 58, of Petah Tikva was stabbed
to death by a Palestinian terrorist while
traveling on a number 51 service taxi to
Tel Aviv. Five other passengers were wounded.
March 1 - Eldar Abir,
48, of Migdalim was killed when two Palestinian
shot him at point blank range at the gas
station near Migdalim in the West Bank. The
Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
March 30 - Rafi Halevy,
63, and his wife Helena, 58, of Kedumim,
Re’ut Feldman, 20, of Herzliya, and
Shaked Lasker, 16, of Kedumim were killed
when a suicide bomber hitchhiker disguised
as an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student detonated
his explosive device in a private vehicle
near the entrance to Kedumim.
April 17 - Eleven people
were killed and over 60 wounded in a suicide
bombing during the Passover holiday at the
Rosh Ha'ir shawarma restaurant, near the
old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for
the attack. The victims: Philip Balhasan,
45, of Ashdod; Rozalia Beseneyi, 48, and
Pirosca Boda 50, of Romania; Marcel Cohen,
73, of Nice, France; Ariel Darhi, 31, of
Bat Yam; Victor Erez, 60, of Givatayim; Binyamin
Haputa, 47, of Lod; David Shaulov, 29, of
Holon; Lily Yunes, 42, of Oranit. Lior Anidzar,
26, of Tel Aviv died of his wounds on May
13. Daniel Wultz, 16, of Weston, Florida
(USA) died on May 14.
June 11 - Marwan Abed
Shweika, 35, of the Abu Tor neighborhood
in Jerusalem was killed and two other Arab
Israelis were wounded in a shooting attack
while driving late at night West Bank highway
north of Jerusalem.
June 25 - Lt. Hanan
Barak, 20, of Arad and Staff-Sgt. Pavel Slutzker,
20, of Dimona were killed when terrorists
from the Hamas and Popular Resistance Committees
terror organizations infiltrated Israeli
territory between the Kerem Shalom and Sufa
crossings, by means of a tunnel dug from
the Rafah area. Another soldier was abducted,
and four others were wounded.
June 25 - Eliyahu
Pinhas Asheri, 18, of Itamar was kidnapped
by terrorists from the Popular Resistance
Committees while hitchhiking from Betar Illit,
southwest of Bethlehem, to Neveh Tzuf, where
he was studying. His body was found on June
29 in Ramallah. It is believed that he was
murdered shortly after his kidnapping.
July 17 - St.-Sgt.
Osher Damari, 20, of Netanya was killed and
six IDF soldiers wounded by an explosive
device in Nablus as troops from the Haruv
Battalion were engaged in anti-terrorist
activity. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 27 - The burnt
body of Dr. Daniel Yaakobi, 59, a doctor
from Yakir in the West Bank, was found in
the trunk of his car near Qalqilya. The Fatah
al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
August 10 - Angelo Frammartino,
24, of Monte Rotondo, Italy was stabbed to
death by an Arab knifeman while walking with
friends on Sultan Suleiman street in east
Jerusalem. It is believed that the attack
was a nationalistically motivated terror
attack, and not an attempted robbery.
August 19 - St.-Sgt. Ro'i
Farjoun, 21, of Yehud was killed when a terrorist
opened fire at the Bekaot chekpoint in the
Jordan Valley. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
September
12 - An IDF reserve Bedouin tracker,
44, was killed by sniper fire in the
course of an army operation to uncover
terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip,
near the Kissufim Crossing. The armed wing
of Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees
claimed responsibility for the shooting.
November
1 - Staff Sergeant Kiril Golenshein,
21, of Moshav Keshet, was killed by a sniper's
bullet as his unit entered the town of
Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip in pursuit
of terrorists firing Kassam rockets at
Israel.
November
15 - Fatima Slutsker, 57, of Sderot,
was killed by a Kassam rocket fired into
the town by Palestinian terrorists in the
Gaza Strip. A barrage of six rockets hit
Sderot at about 7 a.m., also seriously wounding
a security guard for Defense Minister Amir
Peretz.
November
21 - Yaakov Yaakobov, 43, of Sderot,
died following a day-long struggle by doctors
to save his life, after he was mortally wounded
by a Kassam rocket fired in the morning by
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
2005
January 2 - Nissim Arbiv,
25, of Nissanit in the Gaza Strip was mortally
wounded in a mortar shell attack while working
in the Erez Industrial Zone. He died of his
wounds on January 11. Two others were wounded
in the attack, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
January 7 - St.-Sgt. Yosef
(Yossi) Atia, 21, of Petah Tikva, was killed
and three fellow off-duty soldiers were wounded
when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their
car on the Trans-Samaria Highway. The Fatah
al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
January 12 - Gideon Rivlin,
50, of Ganei Tal was killed and three IDF
soldiers were wounded when a bomb was detonated
as a military vehicle patroled the route
near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two
terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The
area was booby-trapped with explosive devices,
in addition to the bomb that exploded. The
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for
the attack.
January 13 - On Thursday
night, shortly before the closing of the
Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive
device on the Palestinian side, blowing a
hole in the door through which Palestinian
terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of
the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians.
As a result of the explosion and exchanges
of fire, six Israeli civilians and three
Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five
Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and
the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
joint responsiblity for the attack. The victims:
Dror Gizri, 30, of Sderot; Ibrahim Kahili,
46, of Umm al-Ghanem; Munam Abu Sabia, 33,
of Daburiyeh; Ivan Shmilov, 53, of Sderot;
Herzl Shlomo, 51, of Sderot; and Ofer Tiri,
23, of Ashkelon.
January 15 - Ayala-Haya
(Ella) Abukasis, 17, of Sderot was mortally
wounded when a Qassam rocket landed near
her and shrapnel penetrated her cerebellum,
leaving her brain dead. She was struck while
protecting her younger brother, who was lightly
wounded. Kept on life support throughout
the week, her parents agreed to stop treatment
when doctors told them there was no chance
of recovery. She died on January 21.
January 18 - Oded Sharon,
36, from Gan Yavne, an ISA officer, was killed,
an IDF officer seriously wounded, and four
IDF soldiers and three members of the ISA
were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing
attack at the Gush Katif junction in the
central Gaza Strip. While search procedures
were being implemented at a post at the junction,
the suicide bomber with explosives strapped
to his body detonated himself. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
February 25 - Five people
were killed and 50 wounded Friday night,
when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside
the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade
at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert
Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Yitzhak Buzaglo, 40, of Mishmar
Hayarden; Aryeh Nagar, 37, of Kfar Sava;
Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot; Ronen Ruevenov,
30, of Tel Aviv. Odelia Hubara, 26, of Jerusalem,
died of her wounds on February 28.
May 2 - St.-Sgt. Dan
Talasnikov, 21, of Nir Galim was killed and
another soldier lightly wounded in an exchange
of fire during an operation to arrest wanted
terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the
village of Saida, north of Tulkarem. One
of the terrorists, responsible for the February
25 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed.
The second terrorist was apprehended.
June 7 - Three workers
were killed and five wounded when a Qassam
rocket hit a packing shed in Ganei Tal, in
the Gaza Strip, penetrating the building's
roof and exploding indoors. The Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility for the attack. The
Chinese worker killed has been identified
as Bi Shude, 46, from Jilin province in northeastern
China. The Palestinian workers killed were
Salah Ayash Imran, 57, of Khan Yunis, married
and the father of 8, and Muhammed Mahmoud
Jaroun, of Khan Yunis.
June 19 - IDF NCO
Sgt.-Maj. Avi Karouchi, 25, of Beersheba was
killed and two soldiers were wounded in a
coordinated Palestinian attack in which RPG
missiles and gunfire were fired at an IDF
engineering force conducting construction
work on the Philadelphi route along the Israeli-Egyptian
border. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
June 20 - Yevgeny
Reider, 28 of Hermesh was killed and a 16-year
old teenager was wounded in a terrorist shooting
attack in the village of Baka A-Sharkiya
in the northern West Bank. The Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 24 - Avihai Levy,
17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by
terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop
about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit
Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad
Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in
the attack, died on June 26. Three
others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and
Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
July 12 - Rachel Ben
Abu, 16, of Tel Aviv; Nofar Horowitz, 16,
of Tel Aviv; and Julia Voloshin, 31, of Netanya
were killed and about 90 people were wounded
when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside
Hasharon Mall in Netanya. Anya Lifshitz,
50, of Netanya, who was mortally wounded,
succumbed to her wounds on July 13. Cpl.
Moshe Maor Jan, 21, of Netanya died
of his wounds on July 14. The bomber was
identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from
the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 14 - Dana Gelkovitch,
22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by
a Qassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara in
the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad
and Fatah all claimed responsibility for
the attack.
July 23 - Dov, 58,
and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed
late Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing
in the southern Gaza Strip while returning
home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three
others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad
and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
August 24 - Shmuel Mett,
21, of Britain, a Mir Yeshiva student, was
returning from the Western Wall to the yeshiva
in Jerusalem’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood
when he was fatally stabbed near Jaffa Gate
in the Old City. Two other students were
wounded.
September 21 - Sasson Nuriel,
55, of Jerusalem was kidnapped and slain
by Palestinian terrorists. His body was found
on Sept 26 in a garbage dump in the industrial
zone of Bitunya, west of Ramallah. Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack.
October 16 - Matat (Rosenfeld)
Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel,
23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15,
of Maon were killed and three were wounded
when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush
Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Another
teenager was seriously shot and wounded near
Eli, in Samaria. The Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for both attacks.
October 26 - Michael Kaufman,
68, of Hadera, Pirhiya Machlouf, 53, of Hadera,
Sabiha Nissim, 66, of Moshav Ahituv, Jamil
Qa'adan, 48, of Baka al-Gharbiya, and Ya'acov
Rahmani, 68, of Hadera were murdered by a
suicide bomber who detonated himself at the
Hadera open-air market. A sixth victim, Genia
Poleis, 66, of Hadera, died of her wounds
11 days later, on Saturday, November 5. The
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for
the atrocity.
November 2 - St.-Sgt. Yonatan
Evron, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was mortally
wounded in a gun battle with terrorists near
the West Bank town of Jenin before dawn.
Evron's unit was providing security for an
overnight raid on a terrorist hideout in
the village of Marka when terrorists opened
fire from ambush at about 3 a.m., wounding
him. He died while being evacuated to a hospital
by helicopter.
November 9 - Hussam Fathi
Mahajna, 36, an Israeli Arab businessman
from Umm al-Fahm, was among 57 people murdered
and 300 wounded in simultaneous attacks by suicide
bombers in Amman, Jordan at three luxury
hotels. Mahajna was a guest at a wedding
held at the Radisson Hotel, known to be popular
with Israeli tourists. Al-Qaida claimed responsiblity
for the attacks.
December 5 - Five people
were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide
bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping
mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated
the bomb when he was stopped by security
guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Haim Amram, 26, of Netanya,
a security guard at the mall; Alexandra Garmitzky,
65, of Netanya; Daniel Golani, 45, of Nahariya;
Elia Rosen, 38, of Bat Hefer; and Keinan
Tsuami, 20, of Petah Tikva.
December 8 - Sgt. Nir Kahane,
20, of Kiryat Tivon, was stabbed to death
at the Kalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah.
The assailant was apprehended.The Fatah al-Aqsa
Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
December 16 - Yosef (Yossi)
Shok, 35, of Beit Hagai was killed in a shooting
attack while driving home in the southern
Hebron hills. Two passengers were wounded.
The Islamic Jihad and Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades claimed joint responsibility for
the attack.
December 29 - Lt. Ori Binamo,
21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist
en route to carry out an attack in Israel
detonated himself at a roadblock set
up near Tulkarm following an intelligence
tip. A second intended suicide terrorist
was also killed in the blast as well as the
taxi driver and a third passenger. Three
soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.
2004
January 13 - Ro'i Arbel,
29, of Talmon, was killed in a terror shooting
ambush near his home in Samaria. Three other
passengers of the vehicle were wounded. The
Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
January 14 - Cpl. Andrei
Kegeles, 19, of Nahariya; St.-Sgt. Tzur Or,
20, of Rishon Lezion; security guard Gal
Shapira, 29, of Ashkelon; and Border Policeman
St.-Sgt. Vladimir Trostinsky, 22, of Rehovot
were killed and 10 wounded when a female
suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the Erez
Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the
Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint
responsibility for the attack.
January 29 - Eleven people
were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them
seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged
bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov
streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related
Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack, naming the
bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old
Palestinian policeman from Bethlehem. The
victims: Avraham (Albert) Balhasan, 28, of
Jerusalem; Rose Boneh, 39, of Jerusalem;
Hava Hannah (Anya) Bonder, 38, of Jerusalem;
Anat Darom, 23, of Netanya; Viorel Octavian
Florescu, 42, of Jerusalem; Natalia Gamril,
53, of Jerusalem; Yechezkel Isser Goldberg,
41, of Betar Illit; Baruch (Roman) Hondiashvili,
38, of Jerusalem; Dana Itach, 24, of Jerusalem;
Mehbere Kifile, 35, of Ethiopia; and Eli
Zfira, 48, of Jerusalem.
February 22 - Eight people
were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them
school pupils, in a suicide bombing on Jerusalem
bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The
Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack, which was carried out by
Mohammed Za'ul, from the Bethlehem area.
The victims: Ilan Avisidris, 41, of Jerusalem;
Lior Azulai, 18, of Jerusalem; Yaffa Ben-Shimol,
57, of Jerusalem; Rahamim Doga, 38, of Mevasseret
Zion; Yehuda Haim, 48, of Givat Ze'ev; St.-Sgt.
Netanel Havshush, 20, of Jerusalem; Yuval
Ozana, 32, of Jerusalem; and Benayahu Zuckerman,
18, of Jerusalem.
February 26 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.)
Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was killed
and two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian
terrorists opened fire near the Erez Crossing
between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The terrorists
were killed by soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
February 27 - Eitan Kukoi,
30, and his wife, Rima Novikov Kukoi, 25,
were killed in a terrorist shooting attack
on the Lahav-Ashkelon road, along the Green
Line. The PFLP and the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades both claimed responsibility for
the attack.
March 14 - Ten people
were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide
bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed
responsibility for the attack. The victims:
Gil Abutbul, 38, of Ashdod; Danny Assulin,
51, of Ashdod; Avraham Avraham, 34, of Ashdod;
Zion Dahan, 30, of Ashdod; Ophir Damari,
31, of Rehovot; Moshe Hendler, 29, of Rehovot;
Mazal Marciano, 30, of Ashdod; Avi Suissa,
56, of Kiryat Malakhi; Maurice Tubul, 30,
of Ashdod; and Pinhas Avraham Zilberman,
45, of Tel Aviv.
March 19 - George Khoury,
20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known
veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina,
was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging
in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of French
Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade,
which claimed responsibility for the attack,
later published an apology.
April 3 - Yaakov (Kobi)
Zagha, 40, of Avnei Hefetz was shot dead
by a terrorist outside his home, after his
daughter Hani, 14, was shot and wounded.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
April 17 - Border Policeman
Cpl. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed,
three others wounded when a Palestinian suicide
bomber blew himself up at the Erez Crossing.
Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility
for the attack.
April 25 - Border Policeman
Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah, 20, of Jaffa, was killed
and three others lightly wounded just an
hour after the beginning of Memorial Day
for Israel's fallen soldiers when shots were
fired at their vehicle near Hebron. The Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
May 2 - Tali Hatuel,
34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar,
9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the
Gaza Strip were killed and another civilian
and two soldiers wounded when two Palestinian
terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the
entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc
of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed
joint responsibility for the attack.
May 11 - Six IDF soldiers
were killed during an IDF operation to target
Qassam workshops in Gaza City, when an Armored
Personnel Carrier was struck by an explosive
device planted by Palestinian terrorists.
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack. The soldiers killed: Sgt.
Adaron Amar, 20, of Eilat; Sgt. Aviad Deri,
21, of Maale Adumim; Staff-Sgt. Ofer Jerbi,
21, of Moshav Ben-Zakai; Staff-Sgt. Ya'akov
(Zelco) Marviza, 25, of Kibbutz Hama'apil;
Sgt. Kobi Mizrahi, 20, of Moshav Mata; and
Staff-Sgt. Eitan Newman, 21, of Jerusalem.
May 12 - An IDF officer
and four soldiers were killed, and three
IDF soldiers were lightly injured, while
preparing to detonate a weapon-smuggling
tunnel on the Philadelphi Route near the
Israeli-Egyptian border near Rafah. Their
armored personnel carrier exploded, apparently
after being his by an RPG anti-tank rocket.The
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for
the attack. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack. The soldiers killed: Cpl.
Elad Cohen, 20, of Jerusalem; Sgt.-Maj. Aiman
Ghadir, 24, of Bir Makhsur; Lt. Aviv Hakani,
23, of Ashdod; Sgt. Za'ur (Zohar) Smelev,
19, of Ofakim; and Sgt. Lior Vishinski, 20,
of Ramat Gan.
May 14 - St.-Sgt.
Rotem Adam, 21, Rishon Lezion and Sgt. Alexei
Hayat, 21, of Beer Sheva were killed and
two soldiers moderately wounded by Palestinian
sniper fire in the Rafah refugee camp in
the southern Gaza Strip.
May 29 - Maj. Shachar
Ben-Yishai, 25, of Menahemia was killed by
Palestinian gunfire following a search in
the Balata camp near Nablus. The Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
June 21 - A foreign
worker, Weerachai Wongput, 37, from the Nong
Han District of the northeastern province
of Udon Thani in Thailand, died after being
hit by shrapnel from a mortar fired into
greenhouses in Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.
The mortar was fired by Palestinians trying
to divert attention from an attempt to infiltrate
the settlement. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack.
June 27 - St.-Sgt.
Roi Nissim, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was killed
and five other soldiers were wounded when
their outpost in the Gaza Strip was blown
up by Hamas terrorists who tunneled under
the position and detonated a massive explosive
charge.
June 28 - Mordechai
Yosepov, 49, and Afik Zahavi, four, were
killed when a Kassam rocket fired by Hamas
terrorists in the Gaza Strip struck near
a nursery school in the northern Negev town
of Sderot.
June 29 - Moshe Yohai,
63, of Ashdod, was found shot to death in
Beit Rima, a Palestinian Authority-controlled
village near Ramallah, where he had apparently
gone on business. The Aksa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility.
July 4 - Victor Kreiderman,
49, of Mevo Dotan, was ambushed and shot
to death by Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorists
as he and his wife were driving near the
village of Yabad. His wife, Emma, was lightly
wounded.
July 11 - Sgt. Ma'ayan
Na'im, 19, of Bat Yam, was murdered and 33
others were wounded when a bomb exploded
at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about
7 a.m. One person was critically wounded,
four were moderately wounded, and the rest
were lightly hurt.
August 13 - Shlomo Miller,
50, of Itamar in Samaria was killed by a
Palestinian terrorist who opened fire outside
the settlement gate. The The Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility.
August 31 - Sixteen people
were killed and 100 wounded in two suicide
bombings within minutes of each other on
two Beersheba city buses, on route nos. 6
and 12. The buses were traveling along Beersheba's
main street, Rager Blvd, near the city hall.
Hamas in Hebron claimed responsibility for
the attack. The victims, all residents of
Beersheba: Shoshana Amos, 64; Aviel Atash,
3; Vitaly Brodsky, 52; Tamara Dibrashvilli,
70; Raisa Forer, 55; Larisa Gomanenko, 48;
Denise Hadad, 50; Tatiana Kortchenko, 49;
Rosita Lehman, 45; Karine Malka, 23; Nargiz
Ostrovsky, 54; Maria Sokolov, 57; Roman Sokolovsky,
53; Tekele Tiroyaient, 33; Eliyahu Uzan,
58; Emmanuel Yosef (Yosefov), 28.
September 22 - Two Border
Policemen - Lance Cpl. Menashe Komemi, 19,
of Moshav Aminadav and Lance Cpl. Mamoya
Tahio, 20, of Rehovot - were killed and 17
Israelis wounded in a suicide bombing carried
out by a female terrorist at the French Hill
junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem.
The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
September 23 - Capt. Tal
Bardugo, 22, of Jerusalem, St.-Sgt. Nir Sami,
21, of Jerusalem, and St.-Sgt. Israel Lutati,
20, of Neve Dekalim were killed by several
Palestinian terrorists, armed with AK-47
assault riffles and hand grenades, who infiltrated
the military post near the community of Morag
in the southern Gaza Strip. Another soldier
and a journalist were also wounded in the
exchange of fire in which the terrorists
were killed. Two Fatah-related terror groups
and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
September 24 - Tiferet
Tratner, 24, of Jerusalem was killed in her
home in Neve Dekalim by a mortar strike on
the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza
Strip.
September 29 - Dorit Aniso,
2, and Yuval Abebeh, 4, both of Sderot, were
killed by a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza
while playing in the street. Some 20 people
were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack.
September 30 - St.-Sgt.
Gilad Fisher, 22, of Mitzpeh Hoshaya, was
killed before dawn when Hamas terrorists,
under cover of heavy fog, attacked an IDF
lookout post east of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza
Strip. Two other soldiers were wounded. The
terrorists were killed.
September 30 - Shlomit
Batito, 36, of Nissanit, was shot and killed
by Hamas terrorists while jogging on the
road. Sgt. Victor Ariel, 20, of Kadima, a
medic, was killed by a grenade thrown by
one of the terrorists as he ran to aid Batito.
The terrorists were killed by soldiers.
October 6 - Pratheep Nanongkham,
24, a greenhouse worker from Maha Sarakham
province in Thailand, was killed when armed
terrorists infiltrated the hothouse area
of Kfar Darom in the central Gaza Strip.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
October 7 - A total of
32 people were killed in terror bombings
at two Sinai holiday resorts frequented by
Israelis: 29 at the Taba Hilton and three
at Ras a-Satan. Among the dead were 12 Israelis;
over 120 were wounded. The Israeli victims
at Taba: Assaf Greenwald, 27, of Ramat Gan;
Hafez al-Hafi, 39, of Lod; Rotem Moriah,
27, of Tel Aviv; Tzila Niv, 43, and her two
sons, Gilad, 11, and Lior, 3, of Rakefet;
Oleg Paizakov, 32, and his wife Ludmilla,
30, of Bat Yam; and Khalil Zeitounya, 10,
of Jaffa. The Israeli victims at Ras a-Satan:
Michal Alexander, 27, of Ganei Tikva; Roy
Avisaf, 28, of Kfar Sava; and Einat Naor,
27, of Kibbutz Zikim.
October 19 - St.-Sgt.
Yair Nisim Turgemann, 22, of Kiryat Arba,
was killed at an IDF base near Mevo Dotan
in Samaria when Palestinian gunmen opened
fire from Palestinian territory west of the
community. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
October 21 - Sgt.-Maj.
Moshe Almaliach, 35, of Dimona, a career
NCO in the IDF engineering corps, was killed
by a bomb explosion While conducting construction
work on the Philadelphi road in the Gaza
Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
October 28 - Sgt. Michael
Chizhik, 21, of Tiberias was killed and six
other soldiers wounded in a mortar shell
attack on an IDF outpost at Morag in the
southern Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack.
November 1 - Three people
were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide
bombing at the Carmel Market in central Tel
Aviv. The Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine in Nablus claimed responsibility
for the attack, carried out by Amar Alfar,
18, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus. The
victims: Tatiana Ackerman, 32, of Tel Aviv;
Leah Levine, 64, of Givatayim; and Shmuel
Levy, 65, of Jaffa.
December 7 - St.-Sgt. Nadav
Kudinski, 20, of Kiryat Gat of the Oketz
canine unit was killed by a bomb, along with
his dog, when a booby-trapped chicken coup
exploded northwest of the Karni Corssing
in the Gaza Strip. Four soldiers were wounded
in the exchange of fire while evacuating
him. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
December 12 - Five IDF
soldiers were killed and five wounded when
a tunnel filled with 1.5 tons of explosives
were detonated under an IDF post at the Rafah
crossing, followed by the infiltration of
the post by two terrorists who opened fire
and activated another explosive device. Hamas
and the Fatah Hawks claimed responsibility
for the attack. The soldiers killed: Sgt.
Araf Azbarga, 19, of Kseifeh; Sgt. Sa'id
Jahaja, 19, of Arara; Sgt. Hussein Abu Leil,
23, of Ein Mahal; Corp. Adham Shehada, 19,
of Turan; and Sgt. Tarek al-Ziadne, 20, of
Rahat.
December 14 - Jitladda
Tap-arsa, 19, a female agricultural worker
from Udon Thani’s Nong Han district
in northereastern Thailand, was killed and
two other foreign workers from Thailand and
Nepal were wounded by mortar shells fired
at Ganei Tal in the Gush Katif settlement
bloc from the Gaza Strip.
December 21 - Ariella Fahima,
39, of Moshav Nehusha, south of Beit Shemesh,
was stabbed to death at the door to her house,
apparently by a terrorist who infiltrated
the perimeter fence.
December 22 - Salem (Sami)
al-Kimlat, 28, a Bedouin from the town of
Rahat employed as a security guard at the
construction site of the security fence west
of Hebron, was shot and killed by Palestinian
terrorists. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
2003
Jan 2, 2003 - The charred
body of Massoud Makhluf Alon, 72, from Menahemiya
in the Lower Galilee, was found in the northern
Jordan Valley in his burned out car. The
Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the murder.
Jan 5, 2003 - Twenty-three
people - 15 Israelis and 8 foreign nationals
- were killed and about 120 wounded in a
double suicide bombing near the old Central
Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently
carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic
Jihad. The Israeli victims: Moshe (Maurice)
Aharfi, 60, of Tel-Aviv; Mordechai Evioni,
52, of Holon; Andrei Friedman, 30, of Tel-Aviv;
Meir Haim, 74, of Azor; Hannah Haimov, 53,
of Tel Aviv; Avi Kotzer, 43, of Bat Yam;
Ramin Nasibov, 25, of Tel-Aviv; Staff Sgt.
Mazal Orkobi, 20, of Azor; Ilanit Peled,
32, of Azor; Viktor Shebayev, 62, of Holon;
Boris Tepalshvili, 51, of Yehud; Sapira Shoshana
Yulzari-Yaffe, 46, of Bat Yam; Lilya Zibstein,
33, of Haifa; Amiram Zmora, 55, of Holon;
Igor Zobokov, 32, of Bt Yam. Foreign workers:
Krassimir Mitkov Angelov, 32, of Bulgaria;
Steven Arthur Cromwell, 43, of Ghana; Ivan
Gaptoniak, 46, of Ukraine; Ion (Nelu) Nicolae,
34, of Romania; Guo Aiping, 47, of China;
Li Peizhong, 41, of China; Mihai Sabau, 38,
of Romania. Zhang Minmin, 50, of China died
of her wounds on January 13.
Jan 12, 2003 - Eli Biton,
48, of Moshav Gadish was killed and four
people wounded when terrorists infiltrated
the community and opened fire. Two terrorists
were killed by Israeli forces. The Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 12, 2003 - Cpl.(res.)
Mikhail Kazakov, 34, of Jerusalem was killed
by terrorists who infiltrated across the
Israel-Egypt border, near the Negev town
of Nitzana.
Jan 17, 2003 - Netanel Ozeri,
34, was killed when terrorists entered his
home, in an outpost north of Kiryat Arba,
and opened fire. His 5-year-old daughter
and two friends were wounded. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Jan 23, 2003 - Cpl. Ronald
Berer, 20, of Rehovot; Cpl. Assaf Bitan,
19, of Afula; and St.-Sgt. Ya'akov Naim,
20, of Kfar Monash were killed by terrorists
while on patrol south of Hebron. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Feb 6, 2003 - 2nd Lt. Amir
Ben-Aryeh, 21, of Maccabim, and St.-Sgt.
Idan Suzin, 20, of Kiryat Tivon were killed
and two more soldiers were wounded in a shooting
attack in the area of Nablus. Both gunmen
were killed by return fire from IDF troops.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
and Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Feb 11, 2003 - Maj. Shahar
Shmul, 24, of Jerusalem was killed by a Palestinian
sniper near the Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem while checking a suspicious vehicle.
The PFLP and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Feb 15, 2003 - Cpl. Noam
Bahagon, 20, of Elkana; Sgt. Tal Alexei Belitzky,
21, of Rishon Lezion; St.-Sgt. Doron Cohen,
21, of Rishon Lezion; and Sgt. Itay Mizrahi,
20, of Be'er Sheva were killed when their
tank drove over an explosive device weighing
100 kgs while on patrol in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 23, 2003 - Sgt. Doron
Lev, 19, of Holon was shot and killed when
a Palestinian sniper opened fire at an army
position in the southern Gaza Strip. The
PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2003 - Seventeen
people were killed and 53 wounded in a suicide
bombing of an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd.
in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route
to Haifa University. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack. The victims: Maryam Atar,
27, of Haifa; Smadar Firstater, 16, of Haifa;
Kamar Abu Hamed, 12, of Daliat al-Carmel;
Daniel Haroush, 16, of Safed; Mordechai Hershko,
41, of Haifa; Tom Hershko, 15, of Haifa;
Meital Katav, 20, of Haifa ; Elizabeta Katzman,
16, of Haifa; Tal Kerman, 17, of Haifa; St.-Sgt.
Eliyahu Laham, 22, of Haifa; Abigail Litle,
14, of Haifa; Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, of
Haifa; St.-Sgt. Be'eri Oved, 21, of Rosh
Pina; Mark Takash, 54, of Haifa; Assaf Tzur
(Zolinger), 17, of Haifa. Anatoly Biryakov,
20, of Haifa, died of his injuries on March
8. Moran Shushan, 20, of Haifa, died of her
injuries on March 11.
Mar 7, 2003 - Rabbi Eli
Horowitz, 52, and his wife Dina, 50, of Kiryat
Arba, were killed and five wounded Friday
night by armed terrorists disguised as Jewish
worshippers who infiltrated Kiryat Arba,
entered their home and murdered them while
they were celebrating the Sabbath. Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 10, 2003 - St.-Sgt.
Tomer Ron, 20, of Moshav Moledet, was killed
and four soldiers were wounded - one seriously
- in Hebron, on the road between the Cave
of the Patriarchs and Kiryat Arba, when Palestinian
terrorists opened fire on a foot patrol.
Two organizations - Hamas and Ahmed Jibril's
Popular Front-General Command - claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Mar 12, 2003 - St.-Sgt.
Assaf Moshe Fuchs, 21, of Kibbutz Gvat was
killed and another soldier wounded Wednesday
morning in an exchange of fire with wanted
terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the
West Bank village of Saida, near Tulkarm.
Mar 18, 2003 - Sgt.-Maj.
(res.) Ami Cohen, 27, of Netanya was killed
and another soldier wounded south of Bethlehem
when Palestinians opened fire during a search
for wanted terrorists.
Mar 19, 2003 - Zion Boshirian,
51, of Mevo Dotan was shot and killed while
driving in his car between Mevo Dotan and
Shaked in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Apr 10, 2003 - St.-Sgt.
Yigal Lifshitz, 20, of Rishon Lezion, and
St.-Sgt. Ofer Sharabi, 21, of Givat Shmuel
were killed and nine others wounded when
Palestinian terrorists opened fire before
dawn on their base near Bekaot in the northern
Jordan Valley. The PFLP and the al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 15, 2003 - Lt. Daniel
Mandel, 24, of Alon Shvut was killed and
another soldier was wounded in an exchange
of gunfire during a search for wanted Hamas
terrorists in Nablus.
Apr 15, 2003 - Zachar Rahamin
Hanukayev, 39, of Sderot and Ahmed Salah
Kara, 20, of Shuafat in northern Jerusalem
were killed and four Israelis were wounded
when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire
at the Karni industrial zone crossing in
the Gaza Strip. The gunman was killed by
security personnel. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Apr 20, 2003 - IDF photographer
Cpl. Lior Ziv, 19, of Holon, was killed and
three other soldiers were wounded during
an operation to destroy a Hamas smuggling
tunnel in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.
Apr 24, 2003 - Alexander
Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from
Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded,
two seriously, in a suicide bombing outside
the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related
to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and
the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for
the attack.
Apr 30, 2003 - Ran Baron,
23, of Tel Aviv, Dominique Caroline Hass,
29, of Tel Aviv, and Yanai Weiss, 46, of
Holon, were murdered and about 60 people
were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself
up at a beachfront pub, "Mike's Place," in
Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack, carried out
as a joint operation.
May 5, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman,
27, of Ahiya, was killed and two other passengers,
his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve
soldier, were seriously wounded when terrorists
fired shots at their vehicle near Shvut Rachel,
in Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 11, 2003 - Zion David,
53, of Givat Ze'ev near Jerusalem, was shot
in the head and killed by Palestinian terrorists
in a roadside ambush half a kilometer from
Ofra, north of Jerusalem. Both Fatah and
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 17, 2003 - Gadi Levy
and his wife Dina, aged 31 and 37, of Kiryat
Arba were killed by a suicide bomber in Hebron.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 18, 2003 - Seven people
were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide bombing
on Egged bus no. 6 near French Hill in Jerusalem.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Olga Brenner, 52; Yitzhak Moyal,
64; Nelly Perov, 55; Marina Tsahivershvili,
44; Shimon Ustinsky, 68; and Roni Yisraeli,
34 - all of the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood
in Jerusalem; and Ghalab Tawil, 42, of Shuafat.
A second suicide bomber detonated his bomb
when intercepted by police in northern Jerusalem.
The terrorist was killed; no one else was
injured.
May 19, 2003 - Kiryl Shremko,
22, of Afula; Hassan Ismail Tawatha, 41,
of Jisr a-Zarqa; and Avi Zerihan, 36, of
Beit Shean were killed and about 70 people
were wounded in a suicide bombing at the
entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The
Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades both claimed responsibility for
the attack.
June 5, 2003 - The bodies
of David Shambik, 26, and Moran Menachem,
17, both of Jerusalem, were found near Hadassah
Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, brutally
beaten and stabbed to death.
June 8, 2003 - Sgt. Maj.
(Res.) Assaf Abergil, 23, of Eilat; Sgt.
Maj. (Res.) Udi Eilat, 38, of Eilat; Sgt.
Maj. Boaz Emete, 24, of Beit She'an; and
Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel, 32, of Ramat
Gan were killed and four reserve soldiers
were wounded when Palestinian terrorists
wearing IDF uniforms opened fire on an IDF
outpost near the Erez checkpoint and industrial
zone in the Gaza Strip. Three terrorists
were killed by IDF soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad
issued a joint statement claiming responsibility
for the attack.
June 8, 2003 - St.-Sgt.
Matan Gadri, 21, of Moshav Moledet was killed
in Hebron while pursuing two Palestinian
gunmen who earlier had wounded a Border Policeman
on guard at the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The
two terrorists were killed.
June 11, 2003 - Seventeen
people were killed and over 100 wounded in
a suicide bombing on Egged bus #14A outside
the Klal building on Jaffa Road in the center
of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack. The victims: Sgt. Tamar Ben-Eliahu,
20, of Moshav Paran; Alan Beer, 47, of Jerusalem;
Eugenia Berman, 50, of Jerusalem; Elsa Cohen,
70, of Jerusalem; Zvi Cohen, 39, of Jerusalem;
Roi Eliraz, 22, of Mevaseret Zion; Alexander
Kazaris, 77, of Jerusalem; Yaffa Mualem,
65, of Jerusalem; Yaniv Obayed, 22, of Herzliya; >Bat-El
Ohana, 21, of Kiryat Ata; Anna Orgal, 55,
of Jerusalem; Zippora Pesahovitch;, 54, of
Zur Hadassah; Bianca Shahrur, 62, of Jerusalem;
Malka Sultan, 67, of Jerusalem; Bertine Tita,
75, of Jerusalem. Miriam Levy, 74, of Jerusalem
died of her wounds on June 12. The 17th victim,
male, who has not yet been positively identified,
is believed to be a foreign worker from Eritrea.
June 12, 2003 - Avner Maimon,
51, of Netanya, was found shot to death in
his car near Yabed in northern Samaria. The
Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
June 13, 2003 - St.-Sgt.
Mordechai Sayada, 22, of Tirat Carmel, was
shot to death in Jenin by a Palestinian sniper
as his jeep patrol passed by. The Fatah al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
June 17, 2003 - Noam Leibowitz,
7, of Yemin Orde was killed and three members
of her family wounded in a shooting attack
near the Kibbutz Eyal junction on the Trans-Israel
Highway. The terrorist fired from the outskirts
of the West Bank city of Kalkilya. The Fatah
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General
Command claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 19, 2003 - Avner Mordechai,
58, of Moshav Sde Trumot, was killed when
a suicide bomber blew up in his grocery on
Sde Trumot, south of Beit Shean. The suicide
bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
June 20, 2003 - Zvi Goldstein,
47, of Eli, was killed when his car was fired
upon in an ambush by Palestinian terrorists
near Ofra, north of Ramallah. His parents,
Eugene and Lorraine Goldstein, from New York,
were seriously wounded and his wife lightly
injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for
the attack.
June 26, 2003 - Amos (Amit)
Mantin, 31, of Hadera, a Bezeq employee,
was killed in a shooting attack in the Israeli
Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh. The shots
were fired by a Palestinian teenager, who
was apprehended by police. The Fatah al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
June 27, 2003 - Sgt. Maj.
Erez Ashkenazi, 21, of Kibbutz Reshafim,
an Israeli navy commando, was killed in an
operation in Gaza to capture a Hamas cell,
believed responsible for several bombings
and the firing of anti-tank missiles in the
Netzarim area.
June 30, 2003 - Krastyu
Radkov, 46, a construction worker from Bulgaria,
was killed in a shooting attack on the Yabed
bypass road in northern Samaria, west of
Jenin, while driving a truck. The Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack, in opposition to the declared
ceasefire.
July 7, 2003 - Mazal Afari,
65, of Moshav Kfar Yavetz was killed in her
home on Monday evening and three of her grandchildren
lightly wounded in a terrorist suicide bombing.
The remains of the bomber were also found
in the wreckage of the house. The Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 15, 2003 - Amir Simhon,
24, of Bat Yam was killed when a Palestinian
armed with a long-bladed knife stabbed passersby
on Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade, after
a security guard prevented him from entering
the Tarabin cafe and was wounded. The terrorist,
who was shot and apprehended, is a member
of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
July 21, 2003 - The body
of IDF soldier Cpl. Oleg Shaichat, 20, of
Upper Nazareth, abducted and murdered on
July 21 while on his way home, was found
on July 28, buried in an olive grove near
Kafr Kana, an Arab village in the Lower Galilee.
Aug 8, 2003 - Third Petty
Officer Roi Oren, 20, an Israel Navy commando,
was shot in the head and killed in an assault
on a Hamas bomb factory in Nablus.
Aug 10, 2003 - Haviv Dadon,
16, of Shlomi, was struck in the chest and
killed by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft
shell fired by Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon,
as he sat with friends after work. Four others
were wounded.
Aug 12, 2003 - Yehezkel
(Hezi) Yekutieli, 43, of Rosh Ha'ayin, was
murdered by a teenaged Palestinian suicide
bomber who detonated himself as Yekutieli
was shopping for his children's breakfast
at his local supermarket.
Aug 12, 2003 - Erez Hershkovitz,
18, of Eilon Moreh, was murdered by a teenaged
Palestinian suicide bomber who detonated
himself at a bus stop outside Ariel less
than half an hour after the Rosh Ha'ayin
attack. Amatzia Nisanevitch, 22, of Nofim,
died of his wounds on August 28.
Aug 19, 2003 - Twenty-three
people were murdered and 134 wounded when
a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself
on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem's Shmuel
Hanavi neighborhood. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack. The victims: Avraham Bar-Or,
12, of Jerusalem; Binyamin Bergman, 15, of
Jerusalem; Yaakov Binder, 50, of Jerusalem;
Feiga Dushinski, 50, of Jerusalem; Miriam
Eisenstein, 20, of Bnei Brak; Lilach Kardi,
22, of Jerusalem; Menachem Leibel, 24, of
Jerusalem; Elisheva Meshulami, 16, of Bnei
Brak; Tehilla Nathanson, 3, of Zichron Ya'acov;
Chava Nechama Rechnitzer, 19, of Bnei Brak;
Mordechai Reinitz, 49, and Issachar Reinitz,
9, of Netanya; Maria Antonia Reslas, 39,
of the Philippines; Liba Schwartz, 54, of
Jerusalem; Hanoch Segal, 65, of Bnei Brak;
Goldie Taubenfeld, 43, and Shmuel Taubenfeld,
3 months, of New Square, New York; Rabbi
Eliezer Weisfish, 42, of Jerusalem; Shmuel
Wilner, 50, of Jerusalem; Shmuel Zargari,
11 months, of Jerusalem. Fruma Rahel Weitz,
73, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on August
23; Mordechai Laufer, 27, died of his on
September 5; and Tova Lev, 37, died on September
12.
Aug 29, 2003 - Shalom Har-Melekh,
25, of Homesh was killed in a shooting attack
while driving northeast of Ramallah. His
wife, Limor, who was seven months pregnant,
sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth
to a baby girl by Caesarean section. The
Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Sept 4, 2003 - St.-Sgt.
Gabriel Uziel, 20, of Givat Ze'ev was shot
and mortally wounded by a terrorist sniper
in Jenin; he died en route to the hospital.
The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Sept 5, 2003 - 2nd Petty
Officer Ra'anan Komemi, 23, of Moshav Aminadav,
from the Naval Commandos was killed in a
clash with armed Palestinians in Nablus.
A senior Hamas bomb-maker, believed to have
orchestrated several fatal suicide bombings,
was also killed in the clash. Four soldiers
were wounded, one seriously.
Sept 9, 2003 - Eight IDF
soldiers were killed and 32 people were wounded
in a suicide bombing at a hitchhiking post
for soldiers outside a main entrance to the
Tzrifin army base and Assaf Harofeh Hospital.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Senior Warrant Officer Haim
Alfasi, 39, of Haifa; Chief Warrant Officer
Yaakov Ben-Shabbat, 39, of Pardes Hanna;
Cpl. Mazi Grego, 19, of Holon; Capt. Yael
Kfir, 21, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Felix Nikolaichuk,
20, of Bat Yam; Sgt. Yonatan Peleg, 19, of
Moshav Yanuv; Sgt. Efrat Schwartzman, 19,
of Moshav Ganei Yehuda; and Cpl. Prosper
Twito, 20, of Upper Nazareth.
Sept 9, 2003 - Seven people
were killed and over 50 wounded when a suicide
bomber at Cafe Hillel on Emek Refaim St.,
the main thoroughfare of the German Colony
neighborhood in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack. The victims:
Dr. David Appelbaum, 51, and his daughter
Nava Appelbaum, 20, of Jerusalem; David Shimon
Avizadris, 51, of Mevaseret Zion; Shafik
Kerem, 27, of Beit Hanina; Alon Mizrahi,
22, of Jerusalem; Gila Moshe, 40, of Jerusalem;
and Yehiel (Emil) Tubol, 52, of Jerusalem.
Sept 25, 2003 - St.-Sgt.
Avihu Keinan, 22, of Shilo was killed and
six soldiers wounded in an IDF operation
to arrest wanted Islamic Jihad and Hamas
terrorists in the El Boureij refugee camp
in the southern Gaza Strip.
Sept 26, 2003 - Eyal Yeberbaum,
27, and seven-month-old Shaked Avraham, both
of Negohot, south of Hebron, were killed
during the holiday meal on the eve of Rosh
Hashana in the Yeberbaum home when a Palestinian
terrorist who infiltrated the settlement
opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle. The
terrorist was killed by IDF forces. The Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 4, 2003 - Twenty-one
people were killed, including four children,
and 58 wounded in a suicide bombing carried
out by a female terrorist from Jenin in the
Maxim restaurant in Haifa. The Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility for the attack. The
victims: Admiral (res.) Ze'ev Almog, 71,
of Haifa, and his wife Ruth Almog, 70; their
son Moshe Almog, 43, and grandsons Tomer
Almog, 9, and Assaf Staier, 11, all of Haifa;
Zvi Bahat, 35, of Haifa; Mark Biano, 29,
of Haifa, and his wife Naomi Biano, 25; Hana
Francis, 39, of Fassouta; Mutanus Karkabi,
31, of Haifa; Sharbal Matar, 23, of Fassouta;
Osama Najar, 28, of Haifa, cook; Nir Regev,
25, of Nahariya; Irena Sofrin, 38, of Kiryat
Bialik; Bruria Zer-Aviv, 59, her son Bezalel
Zer-Aviv, 30, and his wife Keren Zer-Aviv,
29, with their children Liran, 4, and Noya,
1, all of Kibbutz Yagur. Lydia Zilberstein,
58, died on October 10 and George Matar,
57, died October 15.
Oct 15, 2003 - Three American
diplomatic personnel - John Eric Branchizio,
37, of Texas, John Martin Linde, Jr., 30,
of Missouri, and Mark T. Parson, 31, of New
York, were killed and one was wounded at
the Beit Hanoun junction in the Gaza Strip
when a massive bomb demolished an armor-plated
jeep in a convoy carrying U.S. diplomats.
Oct 19, 2003 - St.-Sgt.
Erez Idan, 19, of Rishon Lezion, Sgt. Elad
Pollack, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sgt.
Roi Ya'acov Solomon, 21, of Tel Aviv, were
killed and another soldier was seriously
wounded while on patrol in Ein Yabrud, north
of Ramallah, when terrorists fired on them
from behind. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 24, 2003 - Three IDF
soldiers - St.-Sgt. Alon Avrahami, 21, of
Or Yehuda, Sgt. Adi Osman, 19, of Kfar Sava,
and Sgt. Sarit Schneor-Senior, 19, of Shoham
- were killed and two others wounded when
a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the army
base in the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim
and opened fire on the soldiers' barracks.
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint
responsibility for the attack.
Nov 18, 2003 - Two IDF soldiers,
Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Belsky, 23, of Haifa, and
St.-Sgt. Shaul Lahav, 20, of Kibbutz Shomrat,
were killed by a Palestinian terrorist who
opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle,
hidden in a prayer rug, at a checkpoint on
the tunnel bypass road, linking Jerusalem
and the Gush Etzion bloc. The Fatah al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Nov 19, 2003 - Patricia
Ter´n Navarrete, 33, of Ecuador was
killed and four other tourists, pilgrims
from Ecuador, were wounded when a terrorist
entered the Israel-Jordan border crossing
terminal north of Eilat from the Jordanian
side and opened fire. The terrorist was killed
by Israeli security guards.
Nov 22, 2003 - Two Israeli
security guards, Ilya Reiger, 58, of Jerusalem,
and Samer Fathi Afan, 25, of the Bedouin
village Uzeir near Nazareth, were shot dead
at a construction site along the route of
the security fence near Abu Dis in East Jerusalem.
The Jenin Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with
Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 22, 2003 - Capt. Hagai
Bibi, 24, of Maaleh Adumim, and Lt. Leonardo
(Alex) Weissman, 23, of Afula were killed
when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire
and threw hand grenades as they emerged from
their jeep on the Kissufim-Gush Katif road
in the Gaza Strip. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 25, 2003 - Adva Fisher,
20, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Noam Leibowitz,
22, of Elkana; Cpl. Angelina Shcherov, 19,
of Kfar Sava; and Cpl. Rotem Weinberger,
19, of Kfar Sava were killed and over 20
people were wounded in a suicide bombing
at a bus stop at the Geha Junction, east
of Tel Aviv, near Petah Tikva. The Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed
responsibility for the attack.
2002
Jan 9, 2002 - Maj. Ashraf
Hawash, 28, of Beit Zarzir; Sgt.-Maj. Ibrahim
Hamadieh, 23, of Rehaniya; Sgt.-Maj. Hana
(Eli) Abu-Ghanem, 25, of Haifa; and St.-Sgt.
Mofid Sawaid, 25, of Abu Snan, four IDF soldiers
of the Bedouin desert patrol unit, were killed
and two injured when two armed Palestinian
terrorists from the southern Gaza Strip,
carrying explosive belts, assault rifles,
grenades, and dressed in Palestinian Authority
police uniforms, infiltrated into Israel
at 04:30 this morning and attacked an IDF
post near Kerem Shalom. The terrorists, one
a member of the Palestinian Authority's naval
force, and the second a Hamas operative,
were killed. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Jan 14, 2002 - Sgt. Elad
Abu-Gani, 19, of Tiberias, was killed and
an officer sustained gunshot wounds in a
terrorist ambush near Kuchin, between Nablus
and Tulkarm. Fatah claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Jan 15, 2002 - Avraham
(Avi) Boaz, 71, of Ma'aleh Adumim, an American
citizen, was kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint
in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was
found in a car in Beit Sahur, in the Bethlehem
area. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed
responsibility for the murder.
Jan 15, 2002 - Yoela Chen,
45, of Givat Ze'ev, was shot and killed by
Palestinian terrorists near the gas station
at the entrance to Givat Ze'ev shortly before
20:00. Her aunt who was with her in the car
was injured. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade
claimed responsibility for the murder.
Jan 16, 2002 - Shahada
Dadis, 30, an Arab resident of Beit Hanina
in East Jerusalem, was killed in a drive-by
terrorist shooting. He was found dead in
a car bearing Israeli license plates south
of Jenin in the West Bank.
Jan 17, 2002 - Edward Bakshayev,
48, of Or Akiva; Anatoly Bakshayev, 63, of
Or Akiva; Aharon Ben Yisrael-Ellis, 32, of
Ra'anana; Dina Binayev, 48, of Ashkelon;
Boris Melikhov, 56, of Sderot; and Avi Yazdi,
25, of Hadera were killed and 35 injured,
several seriously, when a terrorist burst
into a bat mitzva reception in a banquet
hall in Hadera shortly before 23:00, opening
fire with an M-16 assault rifle. The Fatah
Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Jan 22, 2002 - Sarah Hamburger,
79, and Svetlana Sandler, 56, both of Jerusalem,
were killed and 40 were injured when a Palestinian
terrorist opened fire with an M-16 assault
rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem.
The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Jan 27, 2002 - Pinhas Tokatli,
81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150
people were wounded, four seriously, in a
suicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center
of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female
terrorist, identified as a Fatah member,
was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.
Feb 6, 2002 - Miri Ohana,
45, and her daughter Yael, 11, were murdered
in their home when an armed terrorist infiltrated
Moshav Hamra, halfway between Jericho and
Beit She'an in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday
evening, opening fire. IDF reserve soldier,
St.-Sgt. Maj.(res.) Moshe Majos Meconen,
33, of Beit She'an, was also killed in the
attack. The terrorist, who entered the Ohana
home disguised in IDF uniform, was killed
by IDF forces. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed
responsibility.
Feb 8, 2002 - Moran Amit,
25, of Kibbutz Kfar Hanasi was stabbed to
death by four Palestinians, aged 14 to 16,
while strolling on the Sherover Promenade
in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood
Friday afternoon.
Feb 9, 2002 - Atala Lipobsky,
78, of Ma'ale Ephraim was shot dead on Saturday
night while driving on the Trans-Samaria
Highway with her son. Palestinian gunmen
opened fire on the car, apparently from an
ambush, between Ariel and the Tapuah Junction.
Feb 10, 2002 - Lt. Keren
Rothstein, 20, of Ashkelon and Cpl. Aya Malachi,
18, of Moshav Ein Habesor were killed in
a drive-by terrorist shooting at the entrance
to the IDF Southern Command base in Be'er
Sheva. Four others were wounded, one critically.
One of the terrorists was killed at the scene;
the second, wearing an explosives belt, fled
in the direction of a nearby school when
he was shot and killed by a soldier and police
officer. Hamas claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Feb 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Ron Lavie, 20, of Katzrin, St.-Sgt. Moshe
Peled, 20, of Rehovot, and St.-Sgt. Asher
Zaguri, 21, of Shlomi were killed and four
soldiers injured when a powerful mine exploded
under a IDF tank on the Karni-Netzarim road
in the Gaza Strip Thursday night, following
the detonation of a roadside bomb at a civilian
convoy of cars and a bus.
Feb 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Lee Nahman Akunis, 20, of Holon, was shot
and killed by gunmen on Friday night at a
roadblock north of Ramallah. The Fatah's
Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Feb 16, 2002 - Nehemia
Amar, 15, and Keren Shatsky, 15, both of
Ginot Shomron were killed and about 30 people
were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide
bomber blew himself up on Saturday night
at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei
Shomron in Samaria. Rachel Theler, 16, of
Ginot Shomron died of her wounds on February
27. The Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Feb 18, 2002 - Policeman
Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village
Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by
a suicide bomber whom he had stopped for
questioning on the Ma'ale Adumim-Jerusalem
road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating
the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 18, 2002 - Ahuva Amergi,
30, of Ganei Tal in Gush Katif was killed
and a 60-year old man was injured when a
Palestinian terrorist opened fire on her
car. Maj. Mor Elraz, 25, of Kiryat Ata and
St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21, of Kiryat Arba,
who came to their assistance, were killed
while trying to intercept the terrorist.
The terrorist was killed when the explosives
he was carrying were detonated. The Fatah
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Feb 19, 2002 - Lt. Moshe
Eini, 21, of Petah Tikva; St.-Sgt. Benny
Kikis, 20, of Carmiel; St.-Sgt. Mark Podolsky,
20, of Tel Aviv; St.-Sgt. Erez Turgeman,
20, of Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. Tamir Atsmi, 21,
of Kiryat Ono; and St.-Sgt. Michael Oxsman,
21, of Haifa were killed and one wounded
in an attack near a roadblock west of Ramallah.
Several terrorists opened fire at soldiers
at the roadblock, including three off-duty
soldiers inside a structure at the roadblock,
killing them at point-blank range. The Fatah
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Feb 22, 2002 - Valery Ahmir,
59, of Beit Shemesh was killed by terrorists
in a drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat
Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem as he returned
home from work. Fatah claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Feb 25, 2002 - Avraham
Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, both of Nokdim,
were killed in a terrorist shooting attack
between Tekoa and Nokdim, south of Bethlehem.
Fish's daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously
injured but delivered a baby girl. The Fatah
al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Feb 25, 2002 - Police officer
1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, of Nesher, died
after being fatally shot, when a terrorist
opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya'akov
residential neighbhorhood in northern Jerusalem.
Eight others were injured, two seriously.
The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Feb 27, 2002 - Gad Rejwan,
34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed early
Wednesday morning by one of his Palestinian
employees in a factory in the Atarot industrial
area, north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups
issued a joint statement taking responsibility
for the murder.
Feb 28, 2002 - IDF soldier
St.-Sgt. Haim Bachar, 20, of Tel Aviv was
killed during clashes with Palestinians in
the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. IDF
forces entered the camp to search for wanted
terrorists.
Mar 1, 2002 - IDF soldier
Sgt. Ya'acov Avni, 20, of Kiryat Ata was
killed by Palestinian sniper fire in the
Jenin refugee camp.
Mar 2, 2002 - The bullet-ridden
body of Jerusalem police detective Chief-Supt.
Moshe Dayan, 46, of Ma'aleh Adumim, was discovered
next to his trail motorcycle, near the Mar
Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert. Tanzim
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 2, 2002 - Ten people
were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically,
in a suicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday
evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox
Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of
Jerusalem where people had gathered for a
bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated
the bomb next to a group of women waiting
with their baby carriages for their husbands
to leave the nearby synagogue. The victims:
Shlomo Nehmad (40), his wife Gafnit (32),
and their daughters Shiraz (7) and Liran
(3), of Rishon Lezion; Shaul Nehmad (15),
of Rishon Lezion; Lidor Ilan (12) and his
sister Oriah (18 months), of Rishon Lezion;
Tzofia Ya'arit Eliyahu (23) and her son Ya'akov
Avraham (7 months), of Jerusalem. Avi Hazan,
37, of Moshav Adora, died of his injuries
on Monday morning (Mar 4). The Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the
attack.
Mar 3, 2002 - Ten Israelis
- 7 soldiers and 3 civilians - were killed
and 6 injured when a terrorist opened fire
at an IDF roadblock near Ofra in Samaria:
Capt. Ariel Hovav, 25, of Eli; Lt.(res.)
David Damelin, 29, of Kibbutz Metzar; 1st
Sgt.(res.) Rafael Levy, 42, of Rishon Lezion;
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Avraham Ezra, 38, of Kiryat
Bialik; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eran Gad, 24, of
Rishon Letzion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Yochai Porat,
26, of Kfar Sava; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Kfir Weiss,
24, of Beit Shemesh; Sergei Butarov, 33,
of Ariel; Vadim Balagula, 32, of Ariel; and
Didi Yitzhak, 66, of Eli. The Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Mar 3, 2002 - Sgt. Steven
Koenigsburg, 19, of Hod Hasharon was killed
and 4 soldiers injured when a Palestinian
gunman opened fire near the Kissufim crossing
in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad and
Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2002 - Police officer
FSM Salim Barakat, 33, of Yarka; Yosef Habi,
52, of Herzliya; and Eli Dahan, 53, of Lod
were killed and over 30 people were wounded
in Tel-Aviv when a Palestinian terrorist
opened fire on two adjacent restaurants shortly
after 2:00 AM. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2002 - Devorah Friedman,
45, of Efrat, was killed and her husband
injured in shooting attack on the Bethlehem
bypass
"tunnel road", south of Jerusalem.
The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2002 - Maharatu
Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed
and a large number of people injured, most
lightly, when a suicide bomber exploded in
an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula
central bus station. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Mar 6, 2002 - 1st Lt. Pinhas
Cohen, 23, of Jerusalem, was killed overnight
near the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis,
in the course of anti-terrorist activity.
Cpl.(res.) Alexander Nastarenko, 37, of Netanya
was killed when Palestinian gunmen crossed
the border fence and ambushed an army jeep
on the patrol road near Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Mar 7, 2002 - Arik Krogliak
of Beit El, Tal Kurtzweil of Bnei Brak, Asher
Marcus of Jerusalem, Eran Picard of Jerusalem,
and Ariel Zana of Jerusalem, all aged 18,
were killed and 23 people were injured, four
seriously, when a Palestinian gunman penetrated
the pre-military training academy in the
Gush Katif settlement of Atzmona. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Mar 8, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Edward Korol, 20, of Ashdod, was killed by
a Palestinian sniper in Tulkarem.
Mar 9, 2002 - Avia Malka,
9 months, of South Africa, and Israel Yihye,
27, of Bnei Brak were killed and about 50
people were injured, several seriously, when
two Palestinians opened fire and threw grenades
at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city
of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to
the city's boardwalk and hotels. The terrorists
were killed by Israeli border police. The
Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Mar 9, 2002 - Limor Ben-Shoham,
27, of Jerusalem; Nir Borochov, 22, of Givat
Ze'ev; Danit Dagan, 25, of Tel-Aviv; Livnat
Dvash, 28, of Jerusalem; Tali Eliyahu, 26,
of Jerusalem; Uri Felix, 25, of Givat Ze'ev;
Dan Imani, 23, of Jerusalem; Natanel Kochavi,
31, of Kiryat Ata; Baruch Lerner, 29, of
Eli; Orit Ozerov, 28, of Jerusalem; Avraham
Haim Rahamim, 28, of Jerusalem were killed
and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when
a suicide bomber exploded at 22:30 PM Saturday
night in a crowded cafe at the corner of
Aza and Ben-Maimon streets in the Rehavia
neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 10, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Kobi Eichelboim, 21, of Givatayim died Sunday
afternoon from wounds suffered in the morning
when a Palestinian gunman disguised as a
worker opened fire at the entrance to Netzarim
in the Gaza Strip.
Mar 12, 2002 - Eyal Lieberman,
42, of Tzoran was killed and another person
was wounded in a shooting attack at the Kiryat
Sefer checkpoint, east of Modi'in.
Mar 12, 2002 - Yehudit
Cohen, 33, of Shlomi; Ofer Kanarick, 44,
of Moshav Betzet; Alexei Kotman, 29, of Kibbutz
Beit Hashita; Lynne Livne, 49, and her daughter
Atara, 15, of Kibbutz Hanita; and Lt. German
Rozhkov, 25, of Kiryat Shmona were killed
when two terrorists opened fire from an ambush
on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi
and Kibbutz Metzuba near the northern border
with Lebanon. Seven others were injured.
Israeli forces killed the two gunmen, who
were dressed in IDF uniforms, and carried
out wide-scale searches for additional terrorists.
Mar 13, 2002 - Lt. Gil
Badihi, 21, of Nataf died of injuries suffered
Wednesday morning in Ramallah. He was shot
in the head by a Palestinian gunman as he
stood next to his tank.
Mar 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Matan Biderman, 21, of Carmiel, St.-Sgt.
Ala Hubeishi, 21, of Julis, and Sgt. Rotem
Shani, 19, of Hod Hasharon were killed and
two soldiers were injured early Thursday
morning when a tank escorting a civilian
convoy drove over a land mine exploded on
the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip.
Terrorists hiding in a nearby mosque detonated
the remote-controlled explosive charge beneath
the armored vehicle. The Democratic Front
for the Liberation of Palestine and the Fatah's
al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade both claimed responsibility.
Mar 17, 2002 - Noa Auerbach,
18, of Kfar Sava was killed and 16 people
were injured when a terrorist opened fire
on passersby in the center of Kfar Sava.
The gunman was shot and killed by police.
Mar 19, 2002 - 1st Lt.
Tal Zemach, 20, of Kibbutz Hulda, was killed
and three soldiers were injured when Palestinian
terrorists opened fire on them in the Jordan
Valley. Hamas claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Mar 20, 2002 - Sgt. Michael
Altfiro, 19, of Pardes Hanna; St.-Sgt. Shimon
Edri, 20, of Pardes Hanna; SWO Meir Fahima,
40, of Hadera; Cpl. Aharon Revivo, 19, of
Afula; Alon Goldenberg, 28, of Tel Aviv;
Mogus Mahento, 75, of Holon; and Bella Schneider,
53, of Hadera were killed and about 30 people
were wounded, several seriously, in a suicide
bombing of an Egged bus No. 823 traveling
from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction
on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Mar 21, 2002 - Gadi (34)
and Tzipi (29) Shemesh, of Jerusalem and
Yitzhak Cohen, 48, of Modi'in were killed
and 86 people injured, 3 of them seriously,
in a suicide bombing on King George Street
in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist
detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes
and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers.
The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Mar 24, 2002 - Esther Klieman,
23, of Neve Tzuf, was killed in a shooting
attack northwest of Ramallah, while traveling
to work in a reinforced Egged bus.
Mar 24, 2002 - Avi Sabag,
24, of Otniel was killed in a terrorist shooting
south of Hebron.
Mar 26, 2002 - Major Cengiz
Soytunc of Turkey and Catherine Berruex of
Switzerland, members of the TIPH observer
force in Hebron, were killed in an ambush
shooting by a Palestinian gunman near Halhul.
Mar 27, 2002 - 22 people
were killed (6 more died later) and 140 injured
- 20 seriously - in a suicide bombing in
the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya,
in the midst of the Passover holiday seder
with 250 guests. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack. The victims: Shula Abramovitch,
63, of Holon; David Anichovitch, 70, of Netanya;
Sgt.-Maj. Avraham Beckerman, 25, of Ashdod;
Shimon Ben-Aroya, 42, of Netanya; Andre Fried,
47, of Netanya; Idit Fried, 47, of Netanya;
Miriam Gutenzgan, 82, Ramat Gan; Ami Hamami,
44, of Netanya; Perla Hermele, 79, of Sweden;
Dvora Karim, 73, of Netanya; Michael Karim,
78, of Netanya; Yehudit Korman, 70, of Ramat
Hasharon; Marianne Lehmann Zaoui, 77, of
Netanya; Lola Levkovitch, 85, of Jerusalem;
Furuk Na'imi, 62, of Netanya; Eliahu Nakash,
85, of Tel-Aviv; Irit Rashel, 45, of Moshav
Herev La'et; Yulia Talmi, 87, of Tel-Aviv;
St.-Sgt. Sivan Vider, 20, of Bekaot; Ernest
Weiss, 79, of Petah Tikva; Eva Weiss, 75,
of Petah Tikva; Meir (George) Yakobovitch,
76, of Holon. Chanah Rogan, 92, of Netanya;
Zee'v Vider, 50, of Moshav Bekaot; Alter
Britvich, 88, and his wife Frieda, 86, of
Netanya died of their injuries on April 2-3.
Sarah Levy-Hoffman, 89, of Tel-Aviv died
of her injuries on April 7. Anna Yakobovitch,
78, of Holon died of her injuries on April
11.
Mar 28, 2002 - Rachel and
David Gavish, 50, their son Avraham Gavish,
20, and Rachel's father Yitzhak Kanner, 83,
were killed when a terrorist infiltrated
the community of Elon Moreh in Samaria, entered
their home and opened fire on its inhabitants.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 29, 2002 - Tuvia Wisner,
79, of Petah Tikva and Michael Orlinsky,
70, of Tel-Aviv were killed Friday morning,
when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated
the Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.
Mar 29, 2002 - Lt. Boaz
Pomerantz, 22, of Kiryat Shmona and St.-Sgt.
Roman Shliapstein, 22, of Ma'ale Efraim were
killed in the course of the IDF anti-terrorist
action in Ramallah (Operation Defensive Shield).
Mar 29, 2002 - Rachel Levy,
17, and Haim Smadar, 55, the security guard,
both of Jerusalem, were killed and 28 people
were injured, two seriously, when a female
suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat
Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Mar 30, 2002 - Border Policeman
Sgt.-Maj. Constantine Danilov, 23, of Or
Akiva was shot and killed in Baka al-Garbiyeh,
during an exchange of fire with two Palestinians
trying to cross into Israel to carry out
a suicide attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility.
Mar 31, 2002 - 14 people
were killed and over 40 injured in a suicide
bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant
of the gas station near the Grand Canyon
shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack. The victims: Suheil Adawi,
32, of Turan; Dov Chernevroda, 67, of Haifa;
Shimon Koren, 55; his sons Ran, 18, and Gal,
15, of Haifa; Moshe Levin, 52, of Haifa;
Danielle Manchell, 22, of Haifa; Orly Ofir,
16, of Haifa; Aviel Ron, 54; his son Ofer,
18, and daughter Anat, 21, of Haifa; Ya'akov
Shani, 53, of Haifa; Adi Shiran, 17, of Haifa;
Daniel Carlos Wegman, 50, of Haifa. Carlos
Yerushalmi, 52, of Karkur, died on April
1 of wounds sustained in the attack.
Apr 1, 2002 - Sgt.-Maj.
Ofir Roth, 22, of Gan Yoshiya, an IDF reserve
soldier, was killed at a roadblock near Jerusalem's
Har Homa neighborhood by a Palestinian sniper
firing from Beit Sahur, near Bethlehem.
Apr 1, 2002 - Tomer Mordechai,
19, of Tel-Aviv, a policeman, was killed
in Jerusalem, when a Palestinian suicide
bomber driving toward the city center blew
himself after being stopped at a roadblock.
The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Apr 3, 2002 - IDF reservist
Maj. Moshe Gerstner, 29, of Rishon Lezion
was killed in Jenin during anti-terrorist
action (Operation Defensive Shield).
Apr 4, 2002 - Rachel Charhi,
36, of Bat-Yam, critically injured in a suicide
bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby
and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv on March 30,
died of her wounds. Some 30 others were injured
in the attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility.
Apr 4, 2002 - Border Police
Supt. Patrick Pereg, 30, of Rosh Ha'ayin,
head of operations in an undercover unit,
was killed Thursday while attempting to arrest
a wanted member of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade.
Apr 4, 2002 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.)
Einan Sharabi, 32, of Rehovot; Lt. Nissim
Ben-David, 22, of Ashdod; and St.-Sgt. Gad
Ezra, 23, of Bat-Yam were killed during the
IDF anti-terrorist action in Jenin (Operation
Defensive Shield).
Apr 5, 2002 - Sgt. Merom
Fisher, 19, of Moshav Avigdor; Sgt. Ro'i
Tal, 21, of Ma'alot; and Sgt. Oded Kornfein,
20, of Kibbutz Ha'on - were killed in exchanges
of fire between IDF troops and Palestinian
gunmen in Jenin (Operation Defensive Shield).
Apr 6, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Nisan Avraham, 26, of Lod was killed and
five other soldiers were lightly injured
when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire and
threw grenades at the entrance to Rafiah
Yam in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians,
members of the Islamic Jihad, were killed.
Apr 8, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Matanya Robinson, 21, of Kibbutz Tirat Zvi,
and Sgt. Shmuel Weiss, 19, of Kiryat Arba
were killed in an ambush by Palestinian gunfire
in the Jenin refugee camp (Operation Defensive
Shield).
Apr 9, 2002 - 13 IDF soldiers
were killed and 7 injured in the Jenin refugee
camp by Palestinian terrorists. An IDF patrol
by reserve soldiers was ambushed during operations
in the refugee camp. Explosive devices were
detonated against them, as well as gunfire
directed against the soldiers from the rooftops
of the surrounding buildings. The soldiers
killed: Maj.(res.) Oded Golomb, 22, of Kibbutz
Nir David; Capt.(res.) Ya'akov Azoulai, 30,
of Migdal Ha'emek; Lt.(res.) Dror Bar, 28,
of Kibbutz Einat; Lt.(res.) Eyal Yoel, 28,
of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel; 1st Sgt.(res.) Tiran
Arazi, 33, of Hadera; 1st Sgt.(res.) Yoram
Levy, 33, of Elad; 1st Sgt.(res.) Avner Yaskov,
34, of Be'er Sheva; Sgt. 1st Class (res.)
Ronen Alshochat, 27, of Ramle; gt. 1st Class
(res.) Eyal Eliyahu Azouri, 27, of Ramat
Gan; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Amit Busidan,
22, of Bat Yam; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Menashe
Hava, 23, of Kfar Sava; Sgt. 1st Class (res.)
Shmuel Danny Meizlish, 27, of Moshav Hemed;
Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Eyal Zimmerman, 22,
of Ra'anana.
Apr 9, 2002 - Maj. Assaf
Assoulin, 30, of Tel Aviv was killed in an
exchange of fire in Nablus.
Apr 9, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Gedalyahu Malik, 21, of Jerusalem was killed
and 12 soldiers were injured in Jenin when
an explosive charge was thrown at a patrol.
Apr 10, 2002 - Avinoam
Alfia, 26, of Kiryat Ata; Sgt.-Maj.(res.)
Shlomi Ben Haim, 27, of Kiryat Yam; Sgt.-Maj.(res.)
Nir Danieli, 24, of Kiryat Ata; Border Police
Lance Cpl. Keren Franco, 18, of Kiryat Yam;
Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Ze'ev Hanik, 24, of Karmiel;
Border Police Lance Cpl. Noa Shlomo, 18,
of Nahariya; Prison Warrant Officer Shimshon
Stelkol, 33, of Kiryat Yam; and Sgt. Michael
Weissman, 21, of Kiryat Yam were killed and
22 people injured in a suicide bombing on
Egged bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem,
which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of
Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Apr 12, 2002 - Lt. Dotan
Nahtomi, 22, of Kibbutz Tzuba, died of wounds
sustained earlier in the week during IDF
operations in Dura (Operation Defensive Shield).
Apr 12, 2002 - Border policeman
St.-Sgt. David Smirnoff, 22, of Ashdod was
killed when a Palestinian gunman opened fire
near the Erez crossing, in the Gaza Strip,
killing one and injuring another four Israelis.
The terrorist killed one and injured three
Palestinian workers in the same shooting
spree. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Apr 12, 2002 - Nissan Cohen,
57; Rivka Fink, 75; Suheila Hushi, 48; and
Yelena Konrab, 43, all of Jerusalem; and
Ling Chang Mai, 34, and Chai Siang Yang,
32, both foreign workers from China, were
killed and 104 people were wounded when a
woman suicide bomber detonated a powerful
charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the
entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air
market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Apr 20, 2002 - Border Policeman
St.-Sgt. Uriel Bar-Maimon, 21 of Ashkelon
was killed in an exchange of fire near the
Erez industrial park in the northern Gaza
Strip. Israeli forces pursued the Palestinian
gunman and killed him. An explosive belt
was found on his body. The Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.
Apr 22, 2002 - Sgt. Maj.
Nir Krichman, 22 of Hadera, was killed in
an exchange of gunfire, when IDF forces entered
the village of Asira a-Shamaliya, north of
Nablus, to arrest known Hamas terrorists.
Apr 27, 2002 - Danielle
Shefi, 5; Arik Becker, 22; Katrina (Katya)
Greenberg, 45; and Ya'acov Katz, 51, all
of Adora, were killed when terrorists dressed
in IDF uniforms and combat gear cut through
the settlement's defensive perimeter fence
and entered Adora, west of Hebron. Seven
other people were injured, one seriously.
The terrorists entered several homes, firing
on people in their bedrooms. Both Hamas and
the PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 3, 2002 - IDF officer
Major Avihu Ya'akov, 24, of Kfar Hasidim,
was killed and two other soldiers injured
in Nablus in a raid against a terror cell
that was planning a suicide attack in Israel.
May 7, 2002 - 15 people
were killed and 55 wounded in a crowded game
club in Rishon Lezion, southeast of Tel-Aviv,
when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful
charge in the 3rd floor club, causing part
of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Esther Bablar,
54, of Bat Yam; Yitzhak Bablar, 57, of Bat
Yam; Avi Bayaz, 26, of Nes Ziona; Regina
Malka Boslan, 62, of Jaffa; Edna Cohen, 61,
of Holon; Rafael Haim, 64, of Tel-Aviv; Pnina
Hikri, 60, of Tel-Aviv; Nawa Hinawi, 51,
of Tel-Aviv; Rahamim Kimhi, 58, of Rishon
Lezion; Nir Lovatin, 31, of Rishon Lezion;
Shoshana Magmari, 51, of Tel-Aviv; Dalia
Masa, 56, of Nahalat Yehuda; Rassan Sharouk,
60, of Holon; Israel Shikar, 49, of Rishon
Lezion; Anat Teremforush, 36, of Ashdod.
May 12, 2002 - Nisan Dolinger,
43, of Pe'at Sadeh in the southern Gaza Strip
was shot and killed by a Palestinian laborer.
The assailant was apprehended.
May 19, 2002 - Yosef Haviv,
70, Victor Tatrinov, 63, and Arkady Vieselman,
40, all of Netanya, were killed and 59 people
were injured - 10 seriously - when a suicide
bomber, disguised as a soldier, blew himself
up in the market in Netanya. Both Hamas and
the PFLP took responsibility for the attack.
May 22, 2002 - Elmar Dezhabrielov,
16, and Gary Tauzniaski, 65, both of Rishon
Lezion, were killed and about 40 people were
wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself
in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian
mall of Rishon Lezion.
May 24, 2002 - Reserve
IDF Sgt. 1st Class Oren Tzelnik, 23, of Bat
Yam was killed and two soldiers wounded when
terrorists opened fire on their APC during
a counter-terrorist operation in Tulkarm.
May 27, 2002 - Ruth Peled,
56, of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter
Sinai Keinan, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva
were killed and 37 people were injured, some
seriously, when a suicide bomber detonated
himself near an ice cream parlor outside
a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
May 28, 2002 - Albert Maloul,
50, of Jerusalem, was killed when shots were
fired at the car in which he was traveling
south on the Ramallah bypass road. Maloul
and his cousin, who was lightly injured,
were returning home to Jerusalem from Eli,
where they operate the swimming pool. The
Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
May 28, 2002 - Netanel
Riachi, 17, of Kochav Ya'akov; Gilad Stiglitz,
14, of Yakir; and Avraham Siton, 17, of Shilo
- three yeshiva high school students - were
killed and two others wounded in Itamar,
southeast of Nablus, when a Palestinian gunman
infiltrated the community and opened fire
on the teenagers playing basketball, before
he was shot dead by a security guard. The
Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Jun 5, 2002 - 17 people
were killed and 38 injured when a car packed
with a large quantity of explosives struck
Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv
to Tiberias at the Megiddo junction near
Afula. The bus, which burst into flames,
was completely destroyed. The terrorist,
who drove the car bomb, was killed in the
blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack. The names of 16 of the victims
have been released: Cpl. Liron Avitan, 19,
of Hadera; Cpl. Avraham Barzilai, 19, of
Netanya; Cpl. Dennis Bleuman, 20, of Hadera;
St.-Sgt. Eliran Buskila, 21, of Hadera; St.-Sgt.
Zvi Gelberd, 20 of Hadera; Sgt. Violetta
Hizgayev, 20, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Ganadi
Issakov, 21, of Hadera; Sgt. Sariel Katz,
21, of Netanya; Cpl. Vladimir Morari, 19,
of Hadera; Sgt. Yigal Nedipur, 21, of Netanya;
Sgt. Dotan Reisel, 22, of Hadera; St.-Sgt.
David Stanislavksy, 23, of Netanya; Sgt.
Sivan Wiener, 19, of Holon; Zion Agmon, 50,
of Hadera; Adi Dahan, 17, of Afula; Shimon
Timsit, 35, of Tel-Aviv.
Jun 6, 2002 - Erez Rund,
18, of Ofra died of gunshot wounds to the
chest sustained in a shooting attack near
Ofra, north of Ramallah, when Palestinian
terrorists opened fire from an ambush.
June 8, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Eyal Sorek, 23, his wife Yael, 24 - 9 months
pregnant - of Carmei Tzur, and St.-Sgt.-Maj.(res.)
Shalom Mordechai, 35, of Nahariya were killed
and five others injured when terrorists infiltrated
the community of Carmei Tzur in the Gush
Etzion bloc and opened fire at 2:30 A.M.
on Friday night. The Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack.
June 11, 2002 - Hadar Hershkowitz,
14, of Herzliya was killed and 15 others
were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber
set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a
shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.
June 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Haim Yehezkel (Hezki) Gutman, 22, of Beit
El, and St.-Sgt. Alexei Gladkov, 20, of Be'er
Sheva were killed and four soldiers were
wounded in a confrontation with terrorists
near Alei Sinai and Dugit in the northern
Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility.
Lt. Anatoly Krasik, 22, of Petah Tikva died
of his wounds on June 22.
June 18, 2002 - 19 people
were killed and 74 were injured - six seriously
- in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction
in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo
to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which
was completely destroyed, was carrying many
students on their way to school. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack. The victims:
Boaz Aluf, 54, of Jerusalem; Shani Avi-Zedek,
15, of Jerusalem; Leah Baruch, 59, of Jerusalem;
Mendel Bereson, 72, of Jerusalem; Rafael
Berger, 28, of Jerusalem; Michal Biazi, 24,
of Jerusalem; Tatiana Braslavsky, 41, of
Jerusalem; Galila Bugala, 11, of Jerusalem;
Raisa Dikstein, 67, of Jerusalem; Dr. Moshe
Gottlieb, 70, of Jerusalem; Baruch Gruani,
60, of Jerusalem; Orit Hayla, 21, of Jerusalem;
Helena Ivan, 63, of Jerusalem; Iman Kabha,
26, of Barta; Shiri Negari, 21, of Jerusalem;
Gila Nakav, 55, of Jerusalem; Yelena Plagov,
42, of Jerusalem; Liat Yagen, 24 of Jerusalem;
Rahamim Zidkiyahu, 51, of Jerusalem.
June 19, 2002 - Noa Alon,
60, of Ofra; Gal Eisenman, 5, of Ma'ale Adumim;
Michal Franklin, 22, of Jerusalem; Tatiana
Igelski, 43, of Moldova; Hadassah Jungreis,
20, of Migdal Haemek; Gila Sara Kessler,
19, of Eli; and Shmuel Yerushalmi, 17, of
Shilo were killed and 50 people were injured
- three of them in critical condition - when
a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded
bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French
Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly
after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning
home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 19, 2002 - Maj. Shlomi
Cohen, 26, of Rehovot and St.-Sgt. Yosef
Talbi, 20, of Yehud were killed and four
soldiers were wounded Wednesday night in
Kalkilya when Palestinian gunmen opened fire
while the soldiers were in pursuit of two
terrorists inside a building.
June 20, 2002 - Rachel
Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria,
16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai, 5 - as well as
a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to
their aid, were murdered when a terrorist
entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus,
and opened fire. Two other children were
injured, as well as two soldiers. The terrorist
was killed by IDF forces. The PFLP and the
Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
July 10, 2002 - IDF officer
Capt. Hagai Lev, 24, of Jerusalem, deputy
commander of a Givati reconaissance unit,
was killed by Palestinian sniper fire while
conducting a search for weapons smuggling
tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Fatah Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed
responsibility for the shooting.
July 16, 2002 - Nine people
were killed and 20 injured in a terrorist
attack on Dan bus No. 189 traveling from
Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. An explosive
charge was detonated next to the bullet-resistant
bus. The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly
wearing IDF uniforms, and opened fire on
the bus. While four terror organizations
claimed responsibility for the attack, it
was apparently carried out by the same Hamas
cell which carried out the attack in Emmanuel
on Dec 12, 2001. The victims: Galila Ades,
42, of Emmanuel; Yonatan Gamliel, 16, of
Emmanuel; Keren Kashani, 29, of Emmanuel;
Sarah Tiferet Shilon, 8 months, of Emmanuel;
Gal Shilon (her father), 32, of Emmanuel;
Zilpa Kashi (her grandmother), 65, of Givatayim;
Ilana Siton, 35, of Emmanuel. The premature
infant delivered after its mother, Yehudit
Weinberg, was seriously injured, died of
his injuries overnight. Yocheved Ben-Hanan,
21, of Emmanuel, who was critically wounded,
died on July 18.
July 17, 2002 - Lt. Elad
Grenadier, 21, of Haifa was killed and three
soldiers were wounded early Wednesday morning
in an exchange of fire with the terrorists
responsible for the attack in Emmanuel on
July 16.
July 17, 2002 - Adrian
Andres, 30, of Romania; Boris Shamis, 25,
of Tel-Aviv; and Xu Hengyong, 39, of China
were killed and 40 were injured in a double
suicide bombing on Neve Shaanan Street near
the old central bus station in Tel Aviv.
Two of those critically wounded subsequently
died of their injuries: Li Bin, 33, of China
(July 24) and Dmitri Pundikov, 33, of Bat-Yam
(July 25). The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
July 25, 2002 - Rabbi Elimelech
Shapira, 43, of Peduel, was killed and another
civilian injured in a shooting attack near
the West Bank community of Alei Zahav, west
of Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
July 26, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Elazar Lebovitch, 21, of Hebron; Rabbi Yosef
Dikstein, 45, of Psagot, his wife Hannah,
42, and their 9-year-old son Shuv'el Zion
were killed in a shooting attack south of
Hebron. Two other of their children were
injured. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
July 30, 2002 - Shlomo
Odesser, 60, and his brother Mordechai, 52,
both of Tapuach in Samaria, were shot and
killed when their truck came under fire in
the West Bank village of Jama'in, near Ariel.
The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
July 31, 2002 - Nine people
- four Israelis and five foreign nationals
- were killed and 85 injured, 14 of them
seriously, when a bomb exploded in the Frank
Sinatra student center cafeteria on the Hebrew
University's Mt. Scopus campus. The explosive
device was planted inside the cafeteria,
which was gutted by the explosion. Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack. The
victims: David Diego Ladowski, 29, of Jerusalem;
Levina Shapira, 53, of Jerusalem; Marla Bennett,
24, of California (US); Benjamin Blutstein,
25, of Pennsylvania (US); Dina Carter, 37,
of Jerusalem (US); Janis Ruth Coulter, 36,
of Massachusetts (US); David Gritz, 24, of
Jerusalem (US-France). Daphna Spruch, 61,
of Jerusalem died of her wounds on August
10. Revital Barashi, 30, died of her wounds
on August 13.
Aug 1, 2002 - The body
Shani Ladani, 27, of Moshav Olash, shot and
bound, was found west of Tulkarem, near the
Green Line, in the industrial zone where
he was employed.
Aug 4, 2002 - Nine people
were killed and some 50 wounded in a suicide
bombing of Egged bus No. 361 traveling from
Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern
Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for
the attack. The victims: Mordechai Yehuda
Friedman, 24, of Ramat Beit Shemesh; Sari
Goldstein, 21, of Karmiel; Maysoun Amin Hassan,
19, of Sajur; Marlene Menahem, 22, of Moshav
Safsufa; Sgt.-Maj. Roni Ghanem, 28, of Maghar;
Sgt. Yifat Gavrieli, 19, of Mitzpe Adi; Sgt.
Omri Goldin, 20, of Mitzpe Aviv; Adelina
Kononen, 37, of the Philippines; Rebecca
Roga, 40, of the Philippines.
Aug 4, 2002 - Yekutiel
Amitai, 34, of Jerusalem, a security guard,
and Nizal Awassat, 52, of the Jabel Mukaber
neighborhood in East Jerusalem, were killed
and 17 were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist
opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus
Gate of Jerusalem's Old City. Border policemen
exchanged fire with the gunman, killing him.
The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Aug 5, 2002 - Avi Wolanski
(29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, were
killed and one of their children, aged 3,
was injured when terrorists opened fire on
their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus
road near Eli in Samaria. The Martyrs of
the Palestinian Popular Army, a splinter
group associated with Arafat's Fatah movement,
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 10, 2002 - Yafit Herenstein,
31, of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley,
was killed and her husband, Arno, seriously
wounded when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated
the moshav and opened fire outside their
home. The terrorist was killed by soldiers.
The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Aug 20, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Kevin Cohen, 19, of Petah Tikva, was killed
by a Palestinian sniper near Khan Yunis in
the Gaza Strip.
Sept 5, 2002 - 1st Lt.
Malik Grifat, 24, of Zarzir was killed and
a soldier wounded when a Palestinian terrorist
opened fire, from a crowded school, towards
an IDF patrol near Nisanit in the northern
Gaza Strip. The terrorist was killed. The
Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Sept 5, 2002 - Sgt. Aviad
Dotan, 21, of Moshav Nir Galim was killed
and three soldiers were wounded when a large
bomb weighing over 100 kgs exploded under
a Merkava tank near the Kissufim Crossing
in central Gaza Strip. An umbrella group
representing several Palestinian factions
claimed responsibility.
Sept 18, 2002 - The charred
body of David Buhbut, 67, of Ma'ale Adumim,
shot in the head, was found near el-Azzariya,
a Palestinian village near Ma'ale Adumim,
east of Jerusalem, the victim of a terrorist
killing.
Sept 18, 2002 - Yosef Ajami,
36, of Jerusalem was killed Wednesday afternoon
when terrorists opened fire on his car near
Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank.
The other occupant of the car, a foreign
worker, was lightly injured. The Fatah al-Aqsa
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 18, 2002 - Police
Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah, 21, of Elyachin was
killed and three people were wounded in a
suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm
al Fahm junction. The terrorist, who was
apparently planning to detonate the bomb
after boarding a bus, set the charge off
early when approached by the police for questioning.
The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Sept 19, 2002 - Solomon
Hoenig, 79, of Tel Aviv; Yossi Mamistavlov,
39 of Or Yehuda; Yaffa Shemtov, 49, of Tel
Aviv; Rosanna Siso, 63, of Gan Yavneh; Ofer
Zinger, 29, of Moshav Pazael; and Jonathan
(Yoni) Jesner, 19, of Glasgow, Scotland were
killed and about 70 people were wounded when
a terrorist detonated a bomb in Dan bus No.
4 on Allenby Street, opposite the Great Synagogue
in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsbility
for the attack.
Sept 23, 2002 - Shlomo
Yitzhak Shapira, 48, of Jerusalem was killed
and three of his children wounded, one seriously,
in a shooting attack Monday evening near
the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The
family, from Jerusalem, had come to Hebron
to celebrate the Sukkot festival.
Sept 26, 2002 - Capt. Harel
Marmelstein, 23, of Mevasseret Zion, an IDF
officer from the naval commando, was killed
while leading a search for wanted terrorists
in the West Bank village of Labed near Tulkarem.
Senior Hamas terrorist Nisa'at Jaber ambushed
the troops, opening fire and killing the
commander. Jaber was killed by the soldiers.
Sept 30, 2002 - St.-Sgt.
Ari Weiss, 21, of Ra'anana, was killed and
another soldier from the engineering battalion
of the Nahal Brigade was wounded when Palestinian
gunmen opened fire on an army position in
the Nablus casbah. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Oct 8, 2002 - Oded Wolk,
51, of Modi'in, who was critically wounded
in an ambush shooting south of Hebron, died
of his wounds the following day (Oct 9).
Three other Israelis were injured in the
attack when Palestinian gunmen opened fire
on their car. Hamas claimed resopnsibility
for the attack.
Oct 10, 2002 - Sa'ada Aharon,
71, of Ramat Gan was killed and about 30
people were wounded when a suicide bomber
blew himself up while trying to board Dan
bus No. 87 across from Bar-Ilan University
on the Geha highway (Route 4). Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Oct 21, 2002 - 14 people
were killed and some 50 wounded when a car
bomb containing about 100 kilograms of explosives
was detonated next to a No. 841 Egged bus
from Kiryat Shmona to Tel-Aviv, while traveling
along Wadi Ara on Route No. 65 toward Hadera.
The bus had pulled over at a bus stop when
the suicide bomber, from Jenin, driving a
jeep, approached from behind and exploded.
The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack. Thirteen of the victims have
been identified: Osnat Abramov, 16, of Holon;
St.-Sgt. Liat Ben-Ami, 20, of Haifa; Ofra
Burger, 56, of Hod Hasharon; Cpl. Ilona Hanukayev,
20, of Hadera; Ashati Indelau, 50, of Hadera;
Suad Jaber, 23, of Taibe; Iris Lavi, 68,
of Netanya; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eliezer Moskovitch,
40, of Petah Tikva; St.-Sgt. Nir Nahum, 20,
of Carmiel; Sgt. Esther Pisahov, 19, of Givat
Olga; St.-Sgt. Aiman Sharuf, 20, of Ussfiyeh;
Anat Shimshon, 34, of Ra'anana; Cpl. Sharon
Tubol, 19, of Arad.
Oct 27, 2002 - Maj. (res.)
Tamir Masad, 41, of Ben Shemen; Lt. Matan
Zagron, 22, of Itamar; and Sgt.-Maj. Amihud
Hasid, 32, of Tapuah were killed and about
20 people were wounded in a suicide bombing
at the Sonol gas station at the entrance
to Ariel in Samaria. The two officers and
soldier were killed while trying to prevent
the terrorist from detonating the bomb. The
terrorist was identified as a member of Hamas.
Oct 29, 2002 - Three Hermesh
residents - Orna Eshel, 53, Linoy Saroussi
and Hadas Turgeman, both 14 - were killed
and two were wounded when a terrorist armed
with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and wearing
an explosive belt opened fire, after infiltrating
the settlement in northern Samaria. The terrorist
was shot dead. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 4, 2002 - Security guard
Julio Pedro Magram, 51, of Kfar Sava, and
Gastón Perpiñal, 15, of Ra'anana,
both recent immigrants from Argentina, were
killed and about 70 people were wounded in
a suicide bombing at a shopping mall in Kfar
Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Nov 6, 2002 - Assaf Tzfira,
18, of B'dolah and Amos Sa'ada, 52, of Rafiah
Yam were killed when when a Palestinian terrorist
opened fire in a hothouse and textile factory
at Pe'at Sadeh in the southern Gaza Strip.
The terrorist was killed by a security officer.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 9, 2002 - Sgt.-Maj.
Madin Grifat, 23, of Beit Zarzir was killed
when a mine exploded during a routine patrol
northeast of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
The Givati Brigade company commander was
wounded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Nov 10, 2002 - Revital Ohayon,
34, and her two sons, Matan, 5, and Noam,
4, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz
Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, of Elyachin,
were killed when a terrorist infiltrated
the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near
the Green Line, and opened fire. The Fatah
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Nov 15, 2002 - Twelve people
- 9 soldiers and three civilians from the
Kiryat Arba emergency response team - were
killed and 15 others wounded Friday night
in Hebron when Palestinian terrorists opened
fire and threw grenades at a group of Jewish
worshipers and their guards as they were
walking home from Sabbath prayers at the
Cave of the Patriarchs. The dead included
civilian worshipers and soldiers, some of
whom were caught in an ambush as they pursued
the attackers. Three terrorists were killed
in the attack, which was claimed by the Islamic
Jihad. The victims: Col. Dror Weinberg, 38,
of Jerusalem; Border Police officer Ch.-Supt.
Samih Sweidan, 31, of Arab al-Aramsha; Sgt.
Tomer Nov, 19, of Ashdod; Sgt. Gad Rahamim,
19, of Kiryat Malachi; St.-Sgt. Netanel Machluf,
19, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Yeshayahu Davidov,
20, of Netanya; Sgt. Igor Drobitsky, 20,
of Nahariya; Cpl. David Marcus, 20, of Ma'aleh
Adumim; and Lt. Dan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem.
The three civilian members of the Kiryat
Arba emergency response team killed were
Yitzhak Buanish, 46; Alexander Zwitman, 26;
and Alexander Dohan, 33.
Nov 18, 2002 - Esther Galia,
48, of Kochav Hashahar, was killed in a shooting
attack near Rimonim, on the Allon Road, some
15 kilometers northeast of Ramallah.
Nov 21, 2002 - Eleven people
were killed and some 50 wounded by a suicide
bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street
in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem.
The bus was filled with passengers, including
schoolchildren, traveling toward the center
of the city during rush hour. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack. The victims:
Hodaya Asraf, 13, of Jerusalem; Marina Bazarski,
46, of Jerusalem; Hadassah (Yelena) Ben-David,
32, of Jerusalem; Sima Novak, 56, of Jerusalem;
Kira Perlman, 67, and her grandson Ilan Perlman,
8, of Jerusalem; Yafit Ravivo, 14 of Jerusalem;
Ella Sharshevsky, 44, and her son Michael
Sharshevsky, 16, of Jerusalem; Mircea Varga,
25, a tourist from Romania; Dikla Zino, 22,
of Jerusalem.
Nov 22, 2002 - IDF tracker
Sgt.-Maj. Shigdaf (Shai) Garmai, 30, of Lod,
was killed when an Israel Defense Forces
Givati Brigade patrol near Tel Qateifa, in
the Gaza Strip, came under Palestinian gunfire.
Hamas claimed responsibility.
Nov 28, 2002 - Noy and Dvir
Anter, aged 12 and 14, of Ariel, and Albert
(Avraham) de Havila, 60, of Ra'anana were
killed along with 10 Kenyans when a car bomb
exploded in the lobby of the Israeli-owned
beachfront Paradise Hotel, frequented almost
exclusively by Israeli tourists, near Mombasa
in Kenya; 21 Israelis were among the 80 wounded.
Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility
for the attack, as well as for the simultaneous
attempt to down an Arkia plane.
Nov 28, 2002 - Haim Amar,
56; Ehud (Yehuda) Avitan, 54; Mordechai Avraham,
44; Ya'acov Lary, 35; and David Peretz, 48
- all of Beit She'an; and Shaul Zilberstein,
36, of Upper Nazareth, were killed and about
40 wounded when two terrorists opened fire
and threw grenades at the Likud polling station
in Beit She'an, near the central bus station,
where party members were casting their votes
in the Likud primary. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 12, 2002 - Corp. Keren
Ya'akobi, 19, of Hadera and Sgt. Maor Kalfon,
19, of Kiryat Yam were killed while on guard
near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
Dec 20, 2002 - Rabbi Yitzhak
Arama, 40, of Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif,
in the Gaza Strip, was shot and killed on
the Kissufim corridor road while driving
with his wife and six children to attend
a pre-wedding Sabbath celebration in Afula.
The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Dec 27, 2002 - Four yeshiva
students - St.-Sgt. Noam Apter, 23, of Shilo;
Pvt. Yehuda Bamberger, 20, of Karnei Shomron;
Gavriel Hoter, 17, of Alonei Habashan; and
Zvi Zieman, 18, of Reut - were killed in
Otniel, south of Hebron, while working in
the yeshiva kitchen, serving the Shabbat
meal to some 100 students in the adjacent
dining room. The two terrorists from the
Islamic Jihad, which claimed responsibility
for the attack, were killed by IDF forces.
Ten other, including six soldiers, were wounded
in the attack.
2001
Jan 14, 2001 - The bullet-ridden
body of Ron Tzalah, 32, of Kfar Yam in Gush
Katif, apparently killed on Sunday night
(Jan 14), was found the following morning
near the Kfar Yam hothouses.
Jan 17, 2001 - Ofir Rahum,
16, of Ashkelon, traveled to Jerusalem to
meet a young woman with whom he had conducted
a relationship over the Internet. She then
drove him toward Ramallah. At a prearranged
location, another vehicle drove up and three
Palestinian gunmen inside shot Rahum more
than 15 times. One terrorist drove off with
Rahum's body and dumped it, while the others
fled in the second vehicle.
Jan 23, 2001 - Motti Dayan,
27, and Etgar Zeituny, 34, cousins from Tel
Aviv, were abducted from a restaurant in
Tulkarem by masked Palestinian gunmen and
executed.
Jan 25, 2001 - Akiva Pashkos,
45, of Jerusalem, was shot dead in a terror
attack near the Atarot industrial zone north
of Jerusalem.
Jan 29, 2001 - Arye Hershkowitz,
55, of Ofra, was killed by shots fired from
a passing car near the Rama junction north
of Jerusalem.
Feb 1, 2001 - Dr. Shmuel
Gillis, 42, of Karmei Tzur, was killed by
Palestinian gunmen who fired at his car near
the Aroub refugee camp on the Jerusalem-Hebron
highway. Lior Attiah, 23, of Afula was shot
to death by terrorists while traveling near
Jenin.
Feb 5, 2001 - St.-Sgt.
Rujayah Salameh, 23, was killed by sniper
fire near Rafah.
Feb 11, 2001 - Tzachi Sasson,
35, of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim in Gush Etzion,
was shot and killed by Palestinian gunmen
as he drove home from Jerusalem.
Feb 14, 2001 - Simcha Shitrit,
30, of Rishon Lezion; Staff-Sgt. Ofir Magidish,
20, of Kiryat Malachi; Sgt. David Iluz, 21,
of Kiryat Malachi; Sgt. Julie Weiner, 21,
of Jerusalem; Sgt. Rachel Levy, 19, of Ashkelon;
Sgt. Kochava Polanski, 19, of Ashkelon; Cpl.
Alexander Manevich, 18, of Ashkelon; and
Cpl. Yasmin Karisi, 18, of Ashkelon were
killed when a bus driven by a Palestinian
terrorist plowed into a group of soldiers
and civilians waiting at a bus stop near
Holon, south of Tel-Aviv. In addition, 25
people were injured in the attack.
Feb 26, 2001 - The body
of Mordechai Shefer, 55, of Kfar Sava, was
found in an olive grove near Moshav Hagor.
An autopsy revealed that he was murdered.
Investigators suspect terrorist motives.
Mar 1, 2001 - Claude Knap,
29, of Tiberias was killed and 9 people injured
when a terrorist detonated a bomb in a Tel
Aviv to Tiberias service taxi at the Mei
Ami junction in Wadi Ara.
Mar 4, 2001 - Naftali Dean,
85, of Tel Mond; his niece, Shlomit Ziv,
58, of Netanya; and Yevgenya Malchin, 70,
of Netanya were killed in a suicide bombing
in downtown Netanya; 60 people were injured.
The Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Mar 19, 2001 - Baruch Cohen,
59, of Efrat, was killed by shots fired at
his car while driving to work in Jerusalem
from his home in the Gush Etzion area. After
being hit by bullets, he lost control of
the car and collided with an oncoming truck.
Mar 26, 2001 - Shalhevet
Pass, age 10 months, was killed by sniper
fire at the entrance to the Avraham Avinu
neighborhood in Hebron.
Mar 28, 2001 - Eliran Rosenberg-Zayat,
15, of Givat Shmuel and Naftali Lanzkorn,
13, of Petah Tikva were killed in a suicide
bombing at the Mifgash Hashalom ("peace
stop") gas station several hundred meters
from an IDF roadblock near the entrance to
Kalkilya, east of Kfar Saba. Four people
were injured. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Apr 1, 2001 - Staff Sgt.
Ya'akov Krenschel, 23, of Nahariya, an IDF
reserve soldier, was killed in a firefight
between army and Palestinian forces southeast
of Nablus.
Apr 1, 2001 - Dina Guetta,
42, of Haifa, was stabbed to death on Ha'atzmaut
Street. Her murder was the initiation rite
into a terrorist cell apprehended in July.
Apr 2, 2001 - Sgt. Danny
Darai, 20, of Arad, was killed by a Palestinian
sniper after completing guard duty at Rachel's
Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem.
Apr 21, 2001 - The mutilated
body of Stanislav Sandomirsky, 38, of Beit
Shemesh, was found in the trunk of his car
near a village north of Ramallah late last
night. Terrorist motives are suspected.
Apr 22, 2001 - Dr. Mario
Goldin, 53, of Kfar Sava, was killed when
a terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he
was carrying near a group of people waiting
at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman and
Tchernichovsky streets. About 60 people were
injured in the blast. Hamas claimed responsibility.
Apr 28, 2001 - Sgt. Shlomo
Elmakias, 20, of Netanya, was killed and
four women passengers wounded in a drive-by
terrorist shooting attack on the Wadi Ara
highway in the Galilee.
Apr 28, 2001 - Simcha Ron,
60, of Nahariya, was found stabbed to death
in Kfar Ba'aneh, near Carmiel in the Galilee.
The terrorists responsible for the attack
were apprehended in July.
May 1, 2001 - Assaf Hershkowitz,
30, of Ofra, was killed when his vehicle
was fired upon and overturned at a junction
between Ofra and Beit El.
May 8, 2001 - Arnaldo Agranionic,
48, was murdered by terrorists as he guarded
the Binyamin Farm, a lonely outpost where
he lived, on an isolated hilltop east of
Itamar in Samaria.
May 9, 2001 - Yossi Ish-Ran,
14, and Kobi Mandell, 14, both of Tekoa,
were found stoned to death in a cave about
200 meters from the small community south
of Jerusalem where they lived.
May 10, 2001 - Constantin
Straturula, 52, and Virgil Martinesc, 29,
two Romanian citizens employed by an Israeli
contractor, were killed in a bomb attack
while repairing a vandalized fence at the
Kissufim Crossing into the Gaza District.
May 15, 2001 - Idit Mizrahi,
20, of Rimonim, was fatally shot in a terrorist
ambush as she drove with her father and brother
on the Alon Highway to attend a family wedding.
Terrorists fired 30 bullets, 19 of which
hit the family's car.
May 18, 2001 - Tirza Polonsky,
66, of Moshav Kfar Haim; Miriam Waxman, 51,
of Hadera; David Yarkoni, 53, of Netanya;
Yulia Tratiakova, 21, of Netanya; and Vladislav
Sorokin, 34, of Netanya were killed in a
suicide bombing at Hasharon Mall in the seaside
city of Netanya, in which over 100 were wounded.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 18, 2001 - Lt. Yair
Nebenzahl, 22, of Neve Tzuf (Halamish), was
killed and his mother seriously wounded,
in a Palestinian roadside ambush north of
Jerusalem.
May 23, 2001 - Asher Iluz,
33, of Modi'in was killed outside Ariel en
route to supervise a road paving in the area,
when Palestinian gunmen opened fire in an
ambush.
May 25, 2001 - The burnt
body of Yosef Alfasi, 50, of Rishon Letzion,
was discovered near the West Bank city of
Tulkarem.
May 29, 2001 - Gilad Zar,
41, of Itamar, was shot dead in a terrorist
ambush while driving in the West Bank between
Kedumim and Yizhar. The Fatah Tanzim claimed
responsibility for the attack.
May 29, 2001 - Sarah Blaustein,
53, and Esther Alvan, 20, of Efrat, were
killed in a drive-by shooting near Neve Daniel
in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem.
The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for
the attack.
May 31, 2001 - Zvi Shelef,
63, of Mevo Dotan, was killed in a drive-by
shooting attack in northern Samaria north
of Tulkarem. He was shot in the head and
died en route to hospital.
June 1, 2001 - Marina Berkovizki,
17, of Tel Aviv; Roman Dezanshvili, 21, of
Bat Yam; Ilya Gutman, 19, of Bat Yam; Anya
Kazachkov, 16, of Holon; Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir,
15, of Ramat Gan; Aleksei Lupalu, 16, of
the Ukraine; Mariana Medvedenko, 16, of Tel
Aviv; Irina Nepomneschi, 16, of Bat Yam;
Yelena Nelimov, 18, of Tel Aviv; Yulia Nelimov,
16, of Tel Aviv; Raisa Nimrovsky, 15, of
Netanya; Pvt. Diez (Dani) Normanov, 21, of
Tel Aviv; Simona Rodin, 18, of Holon; Ori
Shahar, 32, of Ramat Gan; Liana Sakiyan,
16, of Tel Aviv; Maria Tagilchev, 14, of
Netanya; and Irena Usdachi, 18, of Holon
were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself
outside a disco near Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium
along the seafront promenade just before
midnight on Friday. Sergei Pancheskov, 20,
of the Ukraine; Yael-Yulia Sklianik, 15,
of Holon; Jan Bloom, 25, of Ramat Gan; and
Yevgenia Dorfman, 15, of Bat Yam died subsequently
from their injuries. 120 people were wounded
in the bombing.
June 11, 2001 - Yehuda
Shoham, aged 5 months, of Shilo, died of
injuries incurred in a fatal stoning on June
5. He was critically injured by a rock thrown
at the family's car near Shilo in Samaria.
June 12, 2001 - Father
Georgios Tsibouktzakis, 34, a Greek Orthodox
monk from the St. George Monastery in Wadi
Kelt in the Judean desert, was shot and killed
while driving on the Jerusalem-Ma'ale Adumim
road.
June 14, 2001 - Lt.Col.
Yehuda Edri, 45, of Ma'ale Adumim was killed
by a Palestinian informant for Israeli intelligence
in a shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass
tunnel road connecting the Gush Etzion bloc
with Jerusalem. One of his security guards
was seriously injured.
June 18, 2001 - Dan Yehuda,
35, of Homesh was killed in a drive-by shooting
attack between Homesh and Shavei Shomron,
near Nablus. Alex Briskin, 17, was moderately
injured. Doron Zisserman, 38, of Einav, was
shot and killed in his car by sniper fire
near the entrance to Einav, east of Tulkarem.
Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 20, 2001 - Ilya Krivitz,
62, of Homesh in Samaria was shot and killed
at close range in an ambush late Wednesday
afternoon in the nearby Palestinian town
of Silat a-Dahar.
June 22, 2001 - Sgt. Aviv
Iszak, 19, of Kfar Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit,
19, of Jerusalem, were killed in a suicide
bombing near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a
jeep with yellow Israeli license plates,
supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as
they approached.
June 28, 2001 - Ekaterina
(Katya) Weintraub, 27, of Ganim in northern
Samaria was killed and another woman injured
late Thursday afternoon by shots fired at
the two-car convoy on the Jenin bypass road.
July 2, 2001 - Aharon Obadyan,
41, of Zichron Ya'akov was shot and killed
near Baka a-Sharkia, north of the West Bank
city of Tulkarem and close to the 1967 Green
Line border, after shopping at the local
market.
July 2, 2001 - The body
of Yair Har Sinai, 51, of Susiya in the Hebron
hills, missing since Monday (July 2) was
found early Tuesday morning shot in the head
and chest.
July 4, 2001 - Eliahu Na'aman,
32, of Petah Tikva, was shot at point-blank
range just inside the Green Line at Sueika,
near Tulkarem.
July 9, 2001 - Capt. Shai
Shalom Cohen, 22, of Pardes Hanna, was killed
and another soldier was wounded when an explosive
charge detonated beneath their jeep after
leaving the Aduraim IDF base south of Hebron.
July 13, 2001 - Yehezkel
(Hezi) Mualem, 49, father of four from Kiryat
Arba, was shot and killed between Kiryat
Arba and Hebron while protesting a shooting
attack in the area the previous day.
July 14, 2001 - David Cohen,
28, of Betar Illit, died of injuries sustained
in a drive-by shooting in Kiryat Arba on
July 12.
July 16, 2001 - Cpl. Hanit
Arami, 19, and St.Sgt. Avi Ben Harush, 20,
both of Zichron Yaakov, were killed and 11
wounded - 3 seriously - when a bomb exploded
in a suicide terrorist attack at a bus stop
near the train station in Binyamina, halfway
between Netanya and Haifa, at about 19:30
Monday evening. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
July 24, 2001 - The body
of Yuri Gushchin, 18, of Jerusalem, brutally
murdered, bearing stab and gunfire wounds,
was found in Ramallah.
July 26, 2001 - Ronen Landau,
17, of Givat Ze'ev, was shot and killed by
Palestinian terrorists while returning home
from Jerusalem with his father.
Aug 5, 2001 - Tehiya Bloomberg,
40, of Karnei Shomron, mother of five and
5 months pregnant, was killed when Palestinian
gunmen opened fire on the family vehicle
between Alfei Menashe and Karnei Shomron.
Three people were seriously wounded, including
her husband, Shimon, and daughter, Tzippi,
14.
Aug 6, 2001 - Yitzhak Snir,
51, of Ra'anana, an Israeli diamond merchant,
was shot dead in Amman, in the yard of the
building where he kept a flat. His body was
found the following morning.
Aug 7, 2001 - Wael Ghanem,
32, an Arab Israeli resident of Taibeh, was
shot and killed by Palestinian assailants
on the road near Kalkilya. Police believe
he was murdered because of suspected collaboration
with Israeli authorities. Zohar Shurgi, 40,
of Moshav Yafit in the Jordan Valley, was
shot and killed by terrorists while driving
home at night on the Trans-Samaria Highway.
Aug 9, 2001 - Giora Balash,
60, of Brazil; Zvika Golombek, 26, of Carmiel;
Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, 31, of the U.S.;
Tehila Maoz, 18, of Jerusalem; Frieda Mendelsohn,
62, of Jerusalem; Michal Raziel, 16, of Jerusalem;
Malka Roth, 15, of Jerusalem; Mordechai Schijveschuurder,
43, of Neria; Tzira Schijveschuurder, 41,
of Neria; Ra'aya Schijveschuurder, 14, of
Neria; Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder,
4, of Neria; Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, of
Neria; Lily Shimashvili, 33, of Jerusalem;
Tamara Shimashvili, 8, of Jerusalem; and
Yocheved Shoshan, 10, of Jerusalem were killed
and about 130 injured in a suicide bombing
at the Sbarro pizzeria on the corner of King
George Street and Jaffa Road in the center
of Jerusalem. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 9, 2001 - Aliza Malka,
17, a boarding student at Kibbutz Merav,
was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting
at the entrance to the kibbutz in the Gilboa
region, west of Beit She'an. Three teenage
girls who were with her in the car were injured,
one seriously.
Aug 25, 2001 - Maj. Gil
Oz, 30, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Kobi Nir,
21, of Kfar Sava; and Sgt. Tzahi Grabli,
19 of Holon were killed and seven soldiers
wounded when two Palestinian terrorists infiltrated
an IDF base in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip
at about 3:00 AM Saturday morning. The attackers,
members of the PLO Fatah faction and of the
Palestinian security forces, were killed
by IDF soldiers. The Democratic Front claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Aug 25, 2001 - Sharon,
26, and Yaniv Ben-Shalom, 27, of Ofarim,
were killed when Palestinian gunmen opened
fire on their car as they were returning
home on the Jerusalem-Modi'in on road Saturday
night. Their children, aged one and two,
were lightly wounded. Sharon's brother, Doron
Sviri, 20, of Jerusalem was fatally wounded
and died the following day.
Aug 26, 2001 - Dov Rosman,
58, of Netanya was killed in a shooting attack
shortly before 17:00 on Sunday afternoon
near the entrance to the village of Zaita,
opposite Kibbutz Magal. Fatah claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Aug 27, 2001 - Meir Lixenberg,
38, of Itamar, father of five, was shot and
killed by Palestinian terrorists from a roadside
ambush while traveling between the communities
of Har Bracha and Itamar, south of Nablus.
Aug 29, 2001 - Oleg Sotnikov,
35, of Ashdod, a truck driver employed by
Dor Energy, was killed in a terrorist shooting
attack outside the Palestinian village of
Kutchin, west of Nablus.
Aug 30, 2001 - Amos Tajouri,
60, of Modi'in, was shot in the head at point-blank
range by a masked gunman in the Arab village
of Na'alin, while dining at a restaurant
owned by close friends.
Sept 6, 2001 - Lt. Erez
Merhavi, 23, of Moshav Tarum was killed in
an ambush shooting near Kibbutz Bahan, east
of Hadera, while driving to a wedding. A
female officer with him in the car was seriously
injured. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Sept 9, 2001 - Ya'akov
Hatzav, 42, of Hamra in the Jordan Valley,
the driver, and Sima Franko, 24, of Beit
She'an, a kindergarten teacher, were killed
in a shooting attack 300 meters south of
the Adam Junction in the Jordan Valley. A
minibus transporting teachers to the regional
school was attacked by Palestinian terrorists.
Sept 9, 2001 - Dr. Yigal
Goldstein, 47, of Jerusalem; Morel Derfler,
45, of Mevasseret Zion; and Sgt. Daniel Yifrah,
19, of Jerusalem were killed and some 90
injured, most lightly, in a suicide bombing
near the Nahariya train station in northern
Israel.
Sept 11, 2001 - Border
Policemen Sgt. Tzachi David, 19, of Tel-Aviv,
and St.-Sgt. Andrei Zledkin, 26, of Carmiel,
were killed just after midnight when Palestinian
gunmen opened fire on the Ivtan Border Police
base near Kibbutz Bachan in central Israel.
A Fatah group claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Sept 12, 2001 - Ruth Shua'i,
46, of Alfei Menashe, was traveling home
around 19:30 PM when shots were fired from
a passing vehicle near the village of Habla
near Kalkilya. She sustained injuries to
her head and stomach and died en route to
Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.
Sept 15, 2001 - Meir Weisshaus,
23, of Jerusalem, was fatally shot late Saturday
night in a drive-by shooting on the Ramot-French
Hill road in northern Jerusalem.
Sept 16, 2001 - Sgt. David
Gordukal, 23, of Upper Nazareth, was killed
in the exchange of fire on Saturday night
in the south of Ramallah, during which five
senior Palestinian terrorists were arrested
and a number of Palestinian positions and
a Force 17 camp were attacked.
Sept 20, 2001 - Sarit Amrani,
26, of Nokdim, was killed Thursday morning
and her husband Shai was seriously wounded
in a shooting attack near Tekoa, south of
Bethlehem. The couple's three children who
were traveling in the vehicle were not injured.
Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 24, 2001 - Salit Sheetrit,
28, of Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu was killed by
gunfire shortly after 6:30 near Shadmot Mehola
on the Jordan Valley road. The Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 2, 2001 - Cpl. Liron
Harpaz, 19, of Alei Sinai, and Assaf Yitzhaki,
20, of Lod, were killed when a Palestinian
terrorist cell infiltrated the northern Gaza
District community of Alei Sinai, opening
fire on residents and hurling grenades into
homes. 15 others were wounded in the attack.
Oct 4, 2001 - Sgt. Tali
Ben-Armon, 19, an off-duty woman soldier
from Pardesia, Haim Ben-Ezra, 76, of Givat
Hamoreh, and Sergei Freidin, 20, of Afula
were killed when a Palestinian terrorist,
dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opened
fire on Israeli civilians waiting at the
central bus station in Afula. 13 other Israelis
were wounded in the attack. Fatah claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Oct 5, 2001 - Hananya Ben-Avraham,
46, of Elad was killed by Palestinian terrorists
in a machine gun ambush near Avnei Hefetz
in central Israel.
Oct 7, 2001 - Yair Mordechai,
43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when a
Palestinian suicide terrorist detonated a
large bomb strapped to his body near the
entrance of the kibbutz in the Beit She'an
Valley.
Oct 17, 2001 - Tourism
Minister Rechavam Ze'evy, 75, was assassinated
by two shots to the head outside his room
at the Jerusalem Hyatt Hotel. The Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Oct 18, 2001 - Lior Kaufman,
30, of Ramat Sharon was killed and two injured,
one seriously, by shots fired by terrorists
at their jeep in the Judean desert, near
the Mar Saba monastery.
Oct 28, 2001 - St.-Sgt.
Yaniv Levy, 22, of Zichron Yaakov was killed
by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by machine-gun
ambush near Kibbutz Metzer in northern Israel.
The Tanzim wing of Arafat's Fatah faction
claimed responsibility for the murder.
Oct 28, 2001 - Ayala Levy,
39, of Elyachin; Smadar Levy, 23, of Hadera;
Lydia Marko, 63, of Givat Ada; and Sima Menachem,
30, of Zichron Yaakov were killed when two
Palestinian terrorists, members of the Palestinian
police, armed with assault rifles and expanding
bullets, opened fire from a vehicle on Israeli
pedestrians at a crowded bus-stop in downtown
Hadera. About 40 were wounded, three critically.
The Islamic Jihad claimed responsiblity for
the attack.
Nov 2, 2001 - St.-Sgt.
Raz Mintz, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin was killed
by Palestinian gunmen 5:45 P.M. on Friday
at an IDF roadblock at near Ofra, north of
Ramallah. The Fatah-affiliated Al-Aksa Brigade
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 4, 2001 - Shoshana
Ben-Yishai, 16, of Betar Illit and Menashe
(Meni) Regev, 14, of Jerusalem were killed
when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire
with a sub-machine gun shortly before 16:00
at a No. 25 Egged bus at the French Hill
junction in northern Jerusalem. 45 people
were injured in the attack.
Nov 6, 2001 - Capt. (Res.)
Eyal Sela, 39, of Moshav Nir Banim, was shot
dead in an ambush by three Palestinian terrorists
on the southern Nablus bypass road.
Nov 9, 2001 - Hadas Abutbul,
39, of Mevo Dotan in northern Samaria was
shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists
on Friday afternoon as she drove from work
in nearby Shaked.
Nov 11, 2001 - Aharon Ussishkin,
50, head of security at Moshav Kfar Hess,
east of Netanya, was shot and killed at the
entrance to the moshav on Sunday evening,
after being summoned to investigate a suspicious
person.
Nov 24, 2001 - St.-Sgt.
Barak Madmon, 26, of Holon, an IDF reservist,
was killed by a mortar shell that landed
in the soccer field of Kfar Darom in Gush
Katif, while on his way to take up guard
duty. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Nov 27, 2001 - Noam Gozovsky,
23, of Moshav Ramat Zvi, and Michal Mor,
25, of Afula were killed when two Palestinian
terrorists from the Jenin area opened fire
with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd
of people near the central bus station in
Afula. Police officers and a reserve soldier
confronted them, killing the terrorists in
the ensuing firefight. Another 50 people
were injured, 10 of them moderately to seriously.
Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint
responsibility.
Nov 27, 2001 - Etty Fahima,
45, of Netzer Hazani was killed three others
were injured when a Palestinian terrorist
threw grenades and opened fire at a convoy
on the road between the Kissufim crossing
and Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday
evening. Hamas claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Nov 29, 2001 - 1st Sgt.
Yaron Pikholtz, 20, of Ramat Gan, was killed
and a second soldier was injured in a drive-by
shooting incident on the Green Line, near
the West Bank village of Baka el-Sharkiya.
Nov 29, 2001 - Inbal Weiss,
22, of Zichron Ya'akov; Yehiav Elshad, 28,
of Tel-Aviv; and Samuel Milshevsky, 45, of
Kfar Sava were killed and nine wounded in
a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en
route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the
city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 1, 2001 - Assaf Avitan,
15, of Jerusalem; Michael Moshe Dahan, 21,
of Jerusalem; Israel Ya'akov Danino, 17,
of Jerusalem; Yosef El-Ezra, 18, of Jerusalem;
Sgt. Nir Haftzadi, 19, of Jerusalem; Yuri
(Yoni) Korganov, 20, of Ma'alei Adumim; Golan
Turgeman, 15, of Jerusalem; Guy Vaknin, 19,
of Jerusalem; Adam Weinstein, 14, of Givon
Hahadasha, and Moshe Yedid-Levy, 19, of Jerusalem
were killed and about 180 injured - 17 seriously
- when explosive devices were detonated by
two suicide bombers close to 11:30 P.M. Saturday
night on Ben Yehuda Street, the pedestrian
mall in the center of Jerusalem. A car bomb
exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack. Ido Cohen,
17, of Jerusalem, fatally injured in the
attack, died of his wounds on December 8.
Dec 2, 2001 - Prof. Baruch
Singer, 51, of Gedera was killed when Palestinian
gunmen opened fire on his car near the northern
Gaza settlement of Elei Sinai. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Dec 2, 2001 - Tatiana Borovik,
23, of Haifa; Mara Fishman, 51, of Haifa;
Ina Frenkel, 60, of Haifa; Riki Hadad, 30,
of Yokne'am; Ronen Kahalon, 30, of Haifa;
Samion Kalik, 64, of Haifa; Mark Khotimliansky,
75, of Haifa; Cecilia Kozamin, 76, of Haifa;
Yelena Lomakin, 62, of Haifa; Rosaria Reyes,
42, of the Philippines; Yitzhak Ringel, 41,
of Haifa; Rassim Safulin, 78, of Haifa; Leah
Strick, 73, of Haifa; Faina Zabiogailu, 64,
of Haifa; Mikhail Zaraisky, 71, of Haifa
were killed and 40 injured in a suicide bombing
on an Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa shortly after
12:00. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Dec 12, 2001 - Yair Amar,
13, of Emmanuel; Esther Avraham, 42, of Emmanuel;
Border Police Chief Warrant Officer Yoel
Bienenfeld, 35, of Moshav Tel Shahar; Moshe
Gutman, 40, of Emmanuel; Avraham Nahman Nitzani,
17, of Betar Illit; Yirmiyahu Salem, 48,
of Emmanuel; Israel Sternberg, 46, of Emmanuel;
David Tzarfati, 38, of Ginot Shomron; Hananya
Tzarfati, 32, of Kfar Saba; Ya'akov Tzarfati,
64, of Kfar Saba were killed when three terrorists
attacked a No. 189 Dan bus and several passenger
cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades,
and light arms fire near the entrance to
Emmanuel in Samaria at 18:00 P.M. About 30
others were injured. Both Fatah and Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 25, 2001 - Sgt. Michael
Sitbon, 23, of Beit Shemesh, an IDF reserve
soldier, was killed, and four other soldiers
were injured, in a shooting attack Tuesday
morning near the Jordanian border north of
Beit She'an.
2000
Sept 27, 2000 - Sgt. David
Biri, 19, of Jerusalem, was fatally wounded
in a bombing near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
Sept 29, 2000 - Border
Police Supt. Yossi Tabaja, 27, of Ramle was
shot to death by his Palestinian counterpart
on a joint patrol near Kalkilya.
Oct 1, 2000 - Border Police
Cpl. Yosef Madhat, 19, of Beit Jann, died
of gunshot wounds sustained in a gun battle
with Palestinians at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus.
Oct 2, 2000 - Wichlav Zalsevsky,
24, of Ashdod, was shot in the head in the
village of Masha on the trans-Samaria highway.
Sgt. Max Hazan, 20, of Dimona, died of gunshot
injuries sustained near Beit Sahur.
Oct 6, 2000 - Bachor Jean (54) was killed when rocks thrown at his vehicle while he was travelling from Haifa to Rishon Lezion. The rocks shattered the windshield and struck his chest. His brother, who was driving the car, sped to the hospital but was too late. The perpetrators were found to be from the nearby Arab village of Jisar a-Zarka.
Oct 8, 2000 - The bullet-riddled
body of Hillel Lieberman, 36, of Elon Moreh
was found at the southern entrance to Nablus.
Oct 12, 2000 - First Cpl.
Yosef Avrahami and First Sgt. Vadim Novesche,
33, two reserve IDF soldiers, were lynched
by a Palestinian mob at the police building
in Ramallah.
Oct 19, 2000 - Rabbi Binyamin
Herling, 64, of Kedumim, was killed when
Fatah members and Palestinian security forces
opened fire on a group of Israeli men, women,
and children on a trip at Mount Ebal near
Nablus.
Oct 28, 2000 - The body
of Marik Gavrilov, 25, of Bnei Aysh was found
inside his burned-out car, between the village
of Bitunia and Ramallah.
Oct 30, 2000 - Eish-Kodesh
Gilmor, 25, of Mevo Modi'in, was shot and
killed while on duty as a security guard
at the National Insurance Institute's East
Jerusalem branch. Another guard was injured.
Amos Machlouf, 30, of the Gilo neighborhood
in Jerusalem, was found murdered in a ravine
near Beit Jala.
Nov 1, 2000 - Lt. David-Hen
Cohen, 21, of Karmiel and Sgt. Shlomo Adshina,
20, of Kibbutz Ze'elim were killed in a shooting
incident in the Al-Hader area, near Bethlehem.
Maj. (res.) Amir Zohar, 34, of Jerusalem
was killed in the Nahal Elisha settlement
in the Jordan Valley while on active reserve
duty.
Nov 2, 2000 - Ayelet Shahar
Levy, 28, and Hanan Levy, 33, were killed
in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda
market in Jerusalem. 10 people were injured
in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Nov 8, 2000 - Noa Dahan,
25, of Moshav Mivtahim in the south, was
shot to death while driving to her job at
the Rafah border crossing in Gaza.
Nov 10, 2000 - Sgt. Shahar
Vekret, 20, of Lod was fatally shot by a
Palestinian sniper near Rachel's Tomb at
the entrance to Bethlehem.
Nov 11, 2000 - Sgt. 1st
Class Avner Shalom, 28, of Eilat, was killed
in a shooting attack at the Gush Katif junction
in the Gaza Strip.
Nov 13, 2000 - Sarah Leisha,
42, of Neveh Tzuf was killed by gunfire from
a passing car while travelling near Ofra,
north of Ramallah. Cpl. Elad Wallenstein,
18, of Ashkelon, and Cpl. Amit Zanna, 19,
of Netanya were killed by gunfire from a
car passing the military bus carrying them
near Ofra. Gabi Zaghouri, 36, of Netivot
was killed by gunfire directed at the truck
he was driving near the Kissufim junction
in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Nov 18, 2000 - St.-Sgt.
Baruch (Snir) Flum, 21, of Tel-Aviv was shot
and killed by a senior Palestinian Preventive
Security Service officer who infiltrated
the Kfar Darom greenhouses in the Gaza Strip.
St.-Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi, 21, of Ramle, wounded
in the Palestinan shooting attack in Kfar
Darom, died of his wounds on Nov 20.
Nov 20, 2000 - Miriam Amitai,
35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, both of Kfar Darom,
were killed when a roadside bomb exploded
alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar
Darom to school in Gush Katif. Nine others,
including 5 children, were injured.
Nov 21, 2000 - Itamar Yefet,
18, of Netzer Hazani died from a gunshot
wound to the head by Palestinian sniper fire
at the Gush Katif junction.
Nov 22, 2000 - Shoshana
Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35,
of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded
when a powerful car bomb was denotated alongside
a passing bus on Hadera's main street, when
the area was packed with shoppers and people
driving home from work. 60 were wounded in
the blast.
Nov 23, 2000 - Lt. Edward
Matchnik, 21, of Beersheba, was killed in
an explosion at the District Coordination
Office near Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.
(The joint DCOs were established at the borders
of Palestinian-ruled areas under the interim
peace accords and were responsible for coordinating
security and humanitarian cooperation.) Sgt.
Samar Hussein, 19, of Hurfeish, was killed
when Palestinian snipers opened fire at soldiers
patrolling the border fence near the Erez
crossing.
Nov 24, 2000 - Maj. Sharon
Arameh, 25, of Ashkelon was killed by Palestinian
sniper fire in fighting near Neve Dekalim
in the Gaza Strip. Ariel Jeraffi, 40, of
Petah Tikva, a civilian employed by the IDF,
was killed by Palestinian fire as he travelled
near Otzarin in the West Bank.
Dec 8, 2000 - Rina Didovsky,
39, a Beit Hagai school teacher on her way
to work, and Eliyahu Ben-Ami, 41, of Otniel,
the driver of the van, were killed when a
car full of gunmen opened fire on the van
near Kiryat Arba. Sgt. Tal Gordon, 19, was
killed when gunmen in a passing car opened
fire on an Egged bus traveling south from
Tiberias to Jerusalem on the Jericho bypass
road.
Dec 21, 2000 - Eliahu Cohen,
29, of Modi'in was shot and killed tonight
by Palestinian terrorists waiting in ambush
on the road between Givat Ze'ev and Beit
Horon.
Dec 28, 2000 - Capt. Gad
Marasha, 30, of Kiryat Arba and Border Police
Sgt.-Maj. Yonatan Vermullen, 29, of Ben-Shemen,
were killed when called to dismantle a road-side
bomb near the Sufa crossing in the Gaza Strip.
The bomb was dismantled, but another bomb
exploded, killing both and injuring two other
soldiers. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Dec 31, 2000 - Binyamin
Zeev Kahane, the son of the late right-wing
leader Meir Kahane, and his wife, Talia,
were killed when Palestinian snipers opened
fire while they were driving on the Ramallah
bypass road. Five of their children, aged
two months to 10 years, were injured.
1993 - 1999
Terrorist Activity |
Judea and Samaria |
Gaza Strip |
| IDF soldiers killed |
20 |
32 |
| IDF soldiers wounded |
617 |
419 |
| Israeli civilians killed |
43 |
5 |
| Israeli civilians wounded |
567 |
86 |
| Molotov cocktails |
1784 |
715 |
| Shootings |
305 |
453 |
| Cases of arson |
102 |
13 |
| Explosive devices |
157 |
181 |
| Fragmentation grenades |
58 |
62 |
| Stabbings |
284 |
214 |
| Sep
24 93 |
Yigal
Vaknin was stabbed to death in
an orchard near the trailer home
where he lived near the village
of Basra. A squad of the HAMAS'
Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responsibility
for the attack. |
| |
| Oct
9 93 |
Dror
Forer and Aran Bachar were murdered
by terrorists in Wadi Kelt in the
Judean Desert. The Popular Front
and the Islamic Jihad 'Al-Aqsa
Squads' each publicly claimed responsibility. |
| |
| Oct
24 93 |
Two
IDF soldiers, Staff Sgt. (res.)
Ehud Rot, age 35, and Sgt. Ilan
Levi, age 23, were killed by a
HAMAS Iz a-Din al Kassam squad.
The two entered a Subaru with Israeli
license plates outside a Jewish
settlement in the Gaza Strip, whose
passengers were apparently terrorists
disguised as Israelis. Following
a brief struggle, the soldiers
were shot at close range and killed.
HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility
for the attack. |
| |
| Oct
29 93 |
Chaim
Mizrahi, resident of Beit-El, was
kidnapped by three terrorists from
a poultry farm near Ramallah. He
was murdered and his body burned.
Three Fatah members were convicted
of the murder on July 27, 1994. |
| |
| Nov
7 93 |
Efraim
Ayubi of Kfar Darom, Rabbi Chaim
Druckman's personal driver, was
shot to death by terrorists near
Hebron. HAMAS publicly claimed
responsibility for the murder. |
| |
| Nov
9 93 |
Salman
'Id el-Hawashla, age 38, an Israeli
Bedouin of the Abu Rekaik tribe
who was driving a car with Israeli
plates, was killed by three armed
men driving a truck hijacked from
the Gaza municipality, in a deliberate
head-on collision. |
| |
| Nov
17 93 |
Sgt.
1st Cl. Chaim Darina, age 37, was
stabbed by a Gazan terrorist while
seated at the cafeteria at the
Nahal Oz road block at the entrance
to the Gaza Strip. The perpetrator
was apprehended. The Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility for the
murder. |
| |
| Dec
1 93 |
Shalva
Ozana, age 23, and Yitzhak Weinstock,
age 19, were shot to death by terrorists
from a moving vehicle, while parked
on the side of the road to Ramallah
because of engine trouble. Weinstock
died of his wounds the following
morning. Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed
responbility for the attack, stating
that it was carried out in retaliation
for the killing by Israeli forces
of Imad Akel, a wanted HAMAS leader
in Gaza. |
| |
| Dec
5 93 |
David
Mashrati, a reserve soldier, was
shot and killed by a terrorist
attempting to board a bus on route
641 at the Holon junction. The
Islamic Jihad Shekaki gorup claimed
responsibility for the attack. |
| |
| Dec
6 93 |
Mordechai
Lapid and his son Shalom Lapid,
age 19, were shot to death by terrorists
near Hebron. HAMAS publicly claimed
responsibility for the attack. |
| |
| Dec
22 93 |
Eliahu
Levin and Meir Mendelovitch were
killed by shots fired at their
car from a passing vehicle in the
Ramallah area. HAMAS claimed responsibility. |
| |
| Dec
23 93 |
Anatoly
Kolisnikov, an Ashdod resident
employed as a relief watchman at
a construction site there, was
stabbed to death while on duty. |
| |
| Dec
31 93 |
Chaim
Weizman and David Bizi were found
murdered in a Ramle apartment.
ID cards of two Gaza residents
were found in the apartment, together
with a leaflet of the Popular Front
'Red Eagle' group, claiming responsibility
for the murder. |
| |
| Dec
24 93 |
Lieut.Col.
Meir Mintz, commander of the IDF
special forces in the Gaza area,
was shot and killed by terrorists
in an ambush on his jeep at the
T-junction in Gaza. The HAMAS Iz
a-Din al Kassam squads publicly
claimed responsibility for the
attack. |
| |
| Jan
12 94 |
Moshe
Becker of Rishon Le-Zion was stabbed
to death by three Palestinian employees
while working in his orchard. The
Popular Front claimed responsibility
for the murder. |
| |
| Jan
14 94 |
Grigory
Ivanov was stabbed to death by
a terrorist in the industrial zone
at the Erez junction, near the
Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility
for the attack. |
| |
| Feb
9 94 |
Ilan
Sudri, a taxi driver, was kidnapped
and murdered while returning home
from work. The Islamic Jihad Shekaki
group sent a message to the news
agencies claiming responsibility
for the murder. |
| |
| Feb
10 94 |
Naftali
Sahar, a citrus grower, was murdered
by blows to his head. His body
was found in his orchard near Kibbutz
Na'an. |
| |
| Feb
13 94 |
Noam
Cohen, age 28, member of the General
Security Service, was shot and
killed in an ambush on his car.
Two of his colleagues who were
also in the vehicle suffered moderate
injuries. HAMAS claimed responsibility
for the attack. |
| |
| Feb
17 94 |
Yuval
Golan, stabbed on December 29,
1993 by a terrorist near Adarim
in the Hebron area, died of his
wounds. |
| |
| Feb
19 94 |
Zipora
Sasson, resident of Ariel and five
months pregnant, was killed on
the trans-Samaria highway in an
ambush by shots fired at her car.
The terrorists were members of
HAMAS. |
| |
| Feb
25 94 |
Sam
Eisenstadt, age 80, was assaulted
with an axe in the center of Kfar
Saba. He died of his wounds shortly
afterwards. |
| |
| Mar
23 94 |
Victor
Lashchiver, employed as a guard
at the Income Tax offices in East
Jerusalem, was shot and killed
near Damascus Gate on his way to
work. The Popular Front claimed
responsibility for the attack. |
| |
| Mar
29 94 |
Yitzhak
Rothenberg, age 70 of Petah Tikva,
was attacked on a construction
site by two residents of Khan Yunis
by axe blows to the head. He died
several days later of his wounds.
The murderers, apprehended the
next day, stated that they carried
out the attack in order to clear
themselves of suspected collaboration
with the Israeli authorities. |
| |
| Mar
31 94 |
Yosef
Zandani, age 28 of Bnei Ayish,
near Gedera, was found murdered
in his apartment. Near the body
was a leaflet of the DFLP "Red
Star", explaining that the
murder was carried out in revenge
for the shooting of one of its
members by an Israeli citizen.
The Israeli acted in self-defense. |
| |
| Apr
6 94 |
Asher
Attia, 48, of Afula, bus driver;
Vered Mordechai, 13, of Afula;
Maya Elharar, 17, of Afula; Ilana
Schreiber, 45, a teacher from Kibbutz
Nir David; Meirav Ben-Moshe, 16,
of Afula; Ayala Vahaba, 40, a teacher
from Afula; and Fadiya Shalabi,
25, of Iksal were killed in a car-bomb
attack on a bus in the center of
Afula. HAMAS claimed responsibility
for the attack. Ahuva Cohen Onalla,
37, wounded in the attack, died
of her wounds on April 25. |
| |
| Apr
7 94 |
Yishai
Gadassi, age 32 of Kvutzat Yavne,
was shot and killed at a hitchhiking
post at the Ashdod junction by
a member of HAMAS. The terrorist
was killed by bystanders at the
scene. |
| |
| Apr
13 94 |
Rahamim
Mazgauker, 34, of Hadera; David
Moyal, 26 of Ramat Gan, an Egged
mechanic; Daga Perda, 44, who immigrated
from Ethiopia in 1991; Bilha Butin,
49, of Hadera; and Sgt. Ari Perlmutter,
19, of Ir Ovot in the Arava were
killed in a suicide bombing attack
on a bus in the central bus station
of Hadera. HAMAS claimed responsibility
for the attack. |
| |
| Apr
21 94 |
The
body of officer cadet Shahar Simani,
20, of Ashkelon, was found stabbed
to death near the roadside at the
village of Beit Hanina, north of
Jerusalem. He had been kidnapped
while hitchhiking in the south. |
| |
| May
17 94 |
Rafael
Yairi (Klumfenbert), 36, of Kiryat
Arba, and Margalit Ruth Shohat,
48, of Ma'ale Levona, were killed
when their car was fired upon by
by terrorists in a passing car
near Beit Haggai, south of Hebron. |
| |
| May
20 94 |
Staff
Sgt. Moshe Bukra, 30, and Cpl.
Erez Ben-Baruch, 24, were shot
dead by HAMAS terrorists at a roadblock
one kilometer south of the Erez
checkpoint in the Gaza Strip. |
| |
| Jul
7 94 |
Sarit
Prigal, 17, was shot to death when
terrorists opened fire from a passing
car near the entrance to Kiryat
Arba. |
| |
| Jul
7 94 |
The
body of Arye Frankenthal, 20, from
Moshav Gimzo near Lod, who had
left his base in the south the
previous day, was found stabbed
and shot near the Arab village
of Kafr Akab, near Ramallah. |
| |
| Jul
19 94 |
Lt.
Guy Ovadia, 23, of Kibbutz Yotvata,
was fatally wounded in an ambush
near Rafiah. HAMAS took responsibility
for the attack, saying it was "a
response to the massacre at the
Erez checkpoint". |
| |
| Jul
25 94 |
Border
policeman Sgt.-Maj. Jacques Attias,
24, died of his wounds after being
shot by Palestinian policemen during
the riots at Erez checkpoint on
July 17. |
| |
| Aug
2 94 |
Yoram
Sakuri, 30, of Kiryat Netafim in
Samaria, died of stab wounds suffered
when a terrorist broke into his
home on July 1st. |
| |
| Aug
14 94 |
Ron
Soval, 18, of Lehavim, north of
Beersheba, was shot to death in
an ambush near Kissufim junction
in the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed
responsibility for the attack. |
| |
| Aug
26 94 |
Shlomo
Kapach, 22, of Holon and Gil Revah,
21, of Bat Yam, elevator technicians,
were murdered at a Ramle building
site. Israel has requested the
extradition of the suspected killers
from the Palestinian Authority. |
| |
| Sep
4 94 |
Sgt.
Victor Shichman, 24, was killed
at the Morag junction in the southern
Gaza Strip while on patrol, from
shots fired from a vehicle bearing
Palestinian license plates. |
| |
| Sep
94 |
Natasha
Ivanov, 32, of Ashdod was strangled
to death. In March 2001, a Palestinian
arrested for being in Israel illegally,
admitted to carrying out the murder
in order to gain acceptance into
a terrorist organization. |
| |
| Oct
9 94 |
Ma'ayan
Levy, 19, an off-duty soldier from
Moshav Beit Zayit and Samir Mugrabi,
35, from Kafr Akab, in north Jerusalem,
were killed in a terrorist attack
in the Nahalat Shiva section of
downtown Jerusalem. HAMAS claimed
responsibility for the attack. |
| |
| Oct
14 94 |
Cpl.
Nahshon Wachsman, 20, who had been
abducted by HAMAS, was murdered
by his captors. Capt. Nir Poraz,
23, was killed in the course of
the unsuccessful IDF rescue operation
to obtain his release. |
| |
| Oct
19 94 |
In
a suicide bombing attack on the
No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in
Tel-Aviv, 21 Israelis and one Dutch
national were killed: Haviv Tishbi,
54, of Tel Aviv; Moshe Gardinger,
83, of Tel Aviv; Pnina Rapaport,
74, of Tel Aviv; Galit Rosen, 23,
of Holon; Zippora Ariel, 64, of
Tel Aviv; David Lida, 74, of Tel
Aviv; Puah Yedgar, 56, of Givatayim;
Dalia Ashkenazi, 62, of Tel; Aviv
Esther Sharon, 21, of Lod; Ofra
Ben-Naim, 33, of Lod; Tamar Karlibach-Sapir,
24, of Moshav Zafaria; Shira Meroz-Kot,
20, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita; Miriam
Adaf, 54, of Sderot; Anat Rosen,
21, of Ra'anana; Salah Ovadia,
52, of Holon; Eliahu Wasserman,
66, of Bat Yam; Alexandra Sapirstein,
55, of Holon; Dr. Pierre Atlas,
56, of Kiryat Ono; Ella Volkov,
21, of Safed; Ayelet Langer-Alkobi,
26, of Kibbutz Yiron; Kochava Biton,
59, of Tel Aviv; Rinier Yurest,
23, of the Netherlands. |
| |
| Nov
11 94 |
Capt.
Yehazkel Sapir, 36, of Kfar Sava;
Lt. Yotam Rahat, 31, of Tel-Aviv;
and Capt. Elad Dror, 24, of Kibbutz
Nachson were killed at the Netzarim
junction in the Gaza Strip when
a Palestinian riding a bicycle
detonated explosives strapped to
his body. Islamic Jihad said it
carried out the attack to avenge
the car bomb killing of Islamic
Jihad leader Hani Abed on Nov 2. |
| |
| Nov
19 94 |
Sgt.-Maj.
Gil Dadon, 26, of Bat Yam, was
killed at the army post at Netzarim
junction by shots fired from a
passing car. HAMAS claimed responsibility
for the attack. |
| |
| Nov
27 94 |
Rabbi
Amiran Olami, 34, of Otniel was
killed near Beit Hagai 10 kms south
of Hebron by shots fired from a
passing car. |
| |
| Nov
30 94 |
Sgt.
Liat Gabai, 19, of Afula, was axed
to death in the center of Afula. |
| |
| Jan
6 95 |
Ofra
Felix, 20, of Beit El, a university
student, was killed when terrorists
opened fire on her car north of
Beit El. |
| |
| Jan
22 95 |
Two
consecutive bombs exploded at the
Beit Lid junction near Netanya,
killing 18 soldiers and one civilian.
The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack. The soldiers killed
were: Lt. David Ben-Zino, 20, of
Ashdod; Lt. Adi Rosen, 20, of Moshav
Bitzaron; Lt. Yuval Tuvya, 22,
of Jerusalem; Sgt.-Maj. Anan Kadur,
24, of Daliat al-Carmel; Staff-Sgt.
Damian Rosovski, 20, of Kadima;
Staff-Sgt. Yehiel Sharvit, 21,
of Haifa; Staff-Sgt. Yaron Blum,
20, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Maya Kopstein,
19, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Daniel Tzikuashvili,
19, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Avi Salto,
19, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Rafael
Mizrahi, 19, of Ramat Gan; Sgt.
Eran Gueta, 20, of Ashkelon; Cpl.
Soli Mizrahi, 18, of Ramat Ramat
Gan; Cpl. David Hasson, 18, of
Ashkelon; Cpl. Amir Hirschenson,
18, of Jerusalem; Cpl. Gilad Gaon,
18, of Herzliya; Cpl. Ilie Dagan,
18, of Kochav Yair; Cpl. Eitan
Peretz, 18, of Nahariya; and Shabtai
Mahpud, 34, of Moshav Tnuvot.
Lt. Eyal Levy, 20, of Ashdod, and Cpl.
Yaniv Weiser, 18, of Givatayim, who
were seriously wounded in the attacks,
later died of their wounds. |
| |
| Feb
6 95 |
Yevgeny
Gromov, 32, of Ashkelon, a security
guard, was killed when terrorists
opened fire from a passing car
on the Gaza bypass road between
Jabalya and Gaza City, as he was
escorting a gasoline truck to a
Gaza Strip filling station. |
| |
| Feb
13 95 |
Rafael
Cohen, 35, of Jerusalem, a taxi
driver, was fatally stabbed on
the Jerusalem-Ma'aleh Adumim road. |
| |
| Mar
19 95 |
Nahum
Hoss, 32, of Hebron and Yehuda
Fartush, 41, of Kiryat Arba, were
killed when terrorists fired on
an Egged bus near the entrance
to Hebron. |
| |
| Mar
29 95 |
Police
Insp. Nitzan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem
and Sgt.-Maj. Jamal Suwitat from
Makr village in Western Galilee
were killed when a Palestinian
driver rammed his truck into their
jeep in a convoy east of the Netzarim
junction in Gaza. |
| |
| Apr
9 95 |
Staff-Sgt.
Yuval Regev, 20, of Holon; Staff-Sgt.
Meir Scheinwald, 20, of Safed;
Sgt. Itai Diener, 19, of Rishon
Lezion; Sgt. Zvi Narbat, 19, of
Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Netta Sufrin,
20, of Rishon Lezion; Cpl. Tal
Nir, 19, of Kibbutz Miflasim; Sgt.
Avraham Arditi, 19, of Jerusalem;
and Alisa Flatow, 20, of the United
States were killed when a bus was
hit by an explosives-laden van
near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack. |
| |
| Jul
18 95 |
Ohad
Bachrach, 18, of Beit El, and Ori
Shahor, 20, of Ra'anana, were killed
while hiking in Wadi Kelt. |
| |
| Jul
24 95 |
Moshe
Shkedi, 75, of Ramat Gan; Rahel
Tamari, 65, of Tel Aviv; Zviya
Cohen, 62, of Tel Aviv; Zahava
Oren, 60, of Tel Aviv; Nehama Lubowitz,
61, of Tel Aviv; and Mordechai
Tovia, 37, of Tel Aviv were killed
in a suicide bomb attack on a bus
in Ramat Gan. |
| |
| Aug
21 95 |
Rivka
Cohen, 26, of Jerusalem; Hannah
Naeh, 56, of Jerusalem; Joan Davenney,
46, of Connecticut; and Police
Chief Superintendent Noam Eisenman,
35, of Jerusalem were killed in
a suicide bombing of a Jerusalem
bus. |
| |
| Sep
5 95 |
Daniel
Frei, 28, of Ma'aleh Michmash,
was stabbed to death when a terrorist
broke into his home at night. |
| |
| Jan
16 96 |
Sgt.
Yaniv Shimel and Major Oz Tibon,
both of Jerusalem, were killed
when terrorists fired on their
car on the Hebron-Jerusalem road. |
| |
| Jan
30 96 |
Staff
Sgt. Ehud Tal, 21, of Kibbutz Maoz
Haim, was stabbed to death at the
liaison office in an army camp
south of Jenin. |
| |
| Feb
25 96 |
In
a suicide bombing of bus No. 18
near the Central Bus Station in
Jerusalem, 26 were killed (17 civilians
and 9 soldiers).
The civilians:
Daniel Biton, 42; Yitzhak Elbaz, 57,
Boris Sharpolinsky, 64; Semion Trakashvili,
60; Yitzhak Yakhnis, 54; Peretz Gantz,
61; Anatoly and Jana Kushnirov, 36
and 37; Masuda Amar, 59; Swietlana
Gelezniak, 32; Celine Zaguri, 19 -
all of Jerusalem; Navon Shabo, 22,
of Bnei Brak; Michael Yerigin, 16,
of Kibbutz Maabarot; Matthew Eisenfeld,
25 and Sara Duker, 23, of the United
States.
Wael Kawasmeh, 23, of East Jerusalem,
and Ira Yitzhak Weinstein, 53, of Maaleh
Adumim, later died of their wounds.
The soldiers:
Sgt. Yonatan Barnea, 20; St-Sgt. Gavriel
Krauss, 24; St.-Sgt. Gadi Shiloni,
22; Cpl. Moshe Reuven, 19; St.-Sgt.
Maj. (res.) Arye Barashi, 39; Cpl.
Iliya Nimotin, 19; Cpl. Merav Nahum,
19; Sgt. Sharon Hanuka, 19; Arik Gaby,
16 (student in pre-army boarding school)
- all of Jerusalem.
HAMAS claimed responsibility for the
attack. |
| |
| Feb
25 96 |
Sgt.
Hofit Ayyash, 20, of Ashdod was
killed in an explosion set off
by a suicide bomber at a hitchhiking
post oustide Ashkelon. HAMAS claimed
responsibility for the attack. |
| |
| Feb
26 96 |
Flora
Yehiel, 28, of Kiryat Ata, was
killed when a car was driven into
a bus stop at the French Hill junction
in Jerusalem. |
| |
| Mar
3 96 |
In
a suicide bombing of bus No. 18
on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, 19
were killed (16 civilians and 3
soldiers).
The civilians:
Maya Birkan, 59; Naima Zargary, 66;
Gavriel Shamashvili, 43; Shemtov Sheikh,
63; Anna Shingeloff, 36; Raya Daushvili,
55; George Yonan, 38 - all of Jerusalem;
Sarina Angel, 45, of Beit Jalla; Gidi
Taspanish, 23, a tourist from Ethiopia;
Valerian Krasyon, 44, a tourist from
Romania; Dominic Lunca, 29; Daniel
Patenka, 33; Marian Grefan, 40; Mirze
Gifa, 39; Dimitru Kokarascu, 43 - all
Romanian workers.
Imar Ambrose, 51, of Romania, died
on March 9.
The soldiers:
Sgt. Yoni Levy, 21, of Jerusalem; Sgt.
Haim Amedi, 19, of Jerusalem; Senior
NCO Uzi Cohen, 54, border policeman
of Jerusalem. |
| |
| Mar
4 96 |
Outside
Dizengoff Center in Tel-Aviv, a
suicide bomber detonated a 20-kilogram
nail bomb, killing 13 (12 civilians
and 1 soldier):
Bat-Hen Shahak, 15, of Tel Mond; Hadas
Dror, 15, of Tel Mond; Kobi Zaharon,
13, of Tel Aviv; Inbar Atiya, 21, of
Ramat-Efal; Dan Tversky, 58, of Tel
Aviv; Dana Gutman, 14, of Moshav Mishmeret;
Yovav Levy, 13, of Tel Aviv; Leah Mizrahi,
60, of Tel Aviv; Tali Gordon, 24, of
Givatayim; Rahel Sela, 82, of Tel Aviv;
Sylvia Bernstein, 73, of Hod Hasharon;
Gail Belkin, 48, of Herzliya; St.-Sgt.
Assaf Wachs, 21, of Holon. |
| |
| May
14 96 |
David
Baum, 17, a yeshiva high school
student in Beit El, was killed
when terrorists fired at students
at a hitchhiking post at Beil El,
near Ramallah. |
| |
| Jun
9 96 |
Yaron
(26) and Efrat (25) Unger, of Kiryat
Arba, were killed when terrorists
fired on their car near Beit Shemesh. |
| |
| Jun
16 96 |
First-Sgt.
Meir Alush, 40, an off-duty policeman,
was shot and killed in a toy store
in the village of Bidiya. |
| |
| Jun
26 96 |
Staff
Sgt. (Res.) Asher Berdugo, 22,
of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt. Ashraf Shibli,
20, of Shibli; and Cpl. (Res.)
Ya'acov Turgeman of Rishon Lezion
were killed in an ambush along
the Jordan River north of Jericho
by terrorists who infiltrated from
Jordan. |
| |
| Jul
26 96 |
Uri
Munk, 53, and his daughter-in-law,
Rachel Munk, 24, of Moshav Mevo
Betar, were killed in a drive-by
shooting attack near Beit Shemesh.
30-year-old Ze'ev Munk, Rachel's
husband, was critically wounded
and died in the hospital the following
week. |
| |
| Dec
11 96 |
Etta
Tzur, 48, and her son Ephraim,
12, were killed when their car
was shot at by terrorists near
Surda, west of Beit El. |
| |
| Mar
21 97 |
Michal
Avrahami, 32, Yael Gilad, 32, and
Anat Winter-Rosen, 32, were killed
when a suicide bomber detonated
a bomb on the terrace of a Tel
Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded. |
| |
| Apr
10 97 |
The
body of IDF Staff-Sgt. Sharon Edri,
missing for seven months, was found
buried near the West Bank village
of Kfar Tzurif. Edri had been kidnapped
and murdered by a Hamas terrorist
cell in September 1996 while hitchiking
to his home in Moshav Zanoah. |
| |
| Apr
25 97 |
Hagit
Zavitzky, 23, of Kfar Adumim and
Liat Kastiel, 23, of Holon were
found stabbed to death in Wadi
Kelt. |
| |
| Jul
30 97 |
16
people were killed and 178 wounded
in two consecutive suicide bombings
in the Mahane Yehuda market in
Jerusalem: Lev Desyatnik, 60, of
Jerusalem; Regina Giber, 76, of
Jerusalem; Valentina Kovalenko,
67, of Jerusalem; Shmuel Malka,
44, of Mevaseret Zion; David Nasco,
44, of Mevaseret Zion; Muhi A-din
Othman, 33, of Abu Ghosh; Simha
Fremd, 92, of Jerusalem; Grisha
Paskhovitz, 15, of Jerusalem; Leah
Stern, 50, of Jerusalem; Rachel
Tejgatrio, 80, of Jerusalem; Liliya
Zelezniak, 47, of Jerusalem; Shalom
(Golan) Zevulun, 52, of Jerusalem;
Mark Rabinowitz, 80, of Jerusalem.
Eli Adourian, 49, of Kfar Adumim,
died of his wounds on August 11.
Ilia Gazrach, 73, of Pisgat Ze'ev,
died on August 29. Baruch Ostrovsky,
84, of Jerusalem died on October
3. |
| |
| Sep
4 97 |
Five
people were killed and 181 wounded
in three suicide bombings on the
Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.
The victims: Yael Botwin, 14; Sivan
Zarka, 14; Smadar Elhanan, 14;
Rami Kozashvili, 20; and Eliahu
Markowitz, 40 - all of Jerusalem. |
| |
| Nov
19 97 |
Gabriel
Hirschberg, 26, was killed by automatic
gunfire in the Old City of Jerusalem. |
| |
| Jan
6 98 |
Yael
Meivar, 25, died of gunshot wounds
sustained in a terrorist attack
on Dec 31, 1997 near the settlement
of Alei Zahav in Samaria. |
| |
| Feb
11 98 |
David
Ktorza, 40, of Jerusalem, was stabbed
to death near his home. |
| |
| May
6 98 |
Haim
Kerman, 28, was stabbed to death
in the Old City of Jerusalem. |
| |
| Aug
5 98 |
Harel
Bin-Nun, 18, and Shlomo Liebman,
24, were shot and killed in an
ambush by terrorists while on patrol
at the Yizhar settlement in Samaria. |
| |
| Aug
20 98 |
Rabbi
Shlomo Ra'anan, 63, was stabbed
to death in the bedroom of his
caravan in Hebron. |
| |
| Oct
9 98 |
IDF
soldier Michal Adato, 19, was stabbed
to death at Moshav Tomer in the
Jordan Valley. |
| |
| Oct
14 98 |
Itamar
Doron, 24, was shot to death near
Moshav Ora, outside Jerusalem. |
| |
| Oct
26 98 |
Danny
Vargas, 29, of Kiryat Arba was
shot to death in Hebron. |
| |
| Oct
29 98 |
Sergeant
Alexey Neykov, 19, was killed when
a terrorist drove an explosives-laden
car into an Israeli army jeep escorting
a bus with 40 elementary school
students from the settlement of
Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. |
| |
| Jan
13 99 |
Sergeant
Yehoshua Gavriel, 25, of Ashdod,
was killed when terrorists opened
fire at the Othniel junction near
Hebron. |
| |
| Aug
7 99 |
The
body of an Israeli, shot in the
head, was found in a burned vehicle. |
| |
| Aug
30 99 |
Yehiel
Finfeter, 25, of Kiryat Motzkin,
and Sharon Steinmetz, 21, of Haifa,
were murdered whlie hiking in the
Megiddo region. |
| |
Note: 15
IDF soldiers were killed in the Palestinian
riots of Sept 26-27, 1996.
Sources: Israeli
Ministry of Foreign Affairs |