The Families
September 23, 2011
While driving with his infant son to Jerusalem to spend Shabbat with his wife's parents, Asher Palmer's car was struck by rocks, causing the car to go off the road and flip over. Asher and 1 year-old Yonatan Palmer were both killed in the crash.
September 4, 2011
On August 22, 2011, there was a rocket attack on Ashkelon. During the attack, while running for cover, Eliyahu Naim sustained a serious head injury. On September 4th, he died at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem
August 20, 2011
There was a series of missiles that were headed towards Beersheba and Yossi Shushan left his home in Ofakim to check on the welfare of his wife, who was visiting her brother in Beersheba. A piece of shrapnel him in his head as he left his car for safety.
August 18, 2011
A series of terrorist attacks was perpetrated against civilians and IDF soldiers in Israel's southern region. Eight people were killed in the attacks - Pascal Avrahami, Flora Gez, Moshe Gez, Dov Karlinsky, Shulamit Karlinsky, Yosef Levy, Moshe Naftali, and Yitzhak Sela - and over 30 people wounded.
The coordinated terrorist attacks on Israeli civilian vehicles began at about noon, when gunfire was opened at an Israeli bus; 14 people were injured and evacuated to nearby hospitals. Simultaneously, fire was opened on an additional bus and two civilian vehicles, injuring several people. An explosive device was detonated on IDF soldiers that arrived at the scene a short while afterwards, injuring several of them.
Several mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip at soldiers conducting routine maintenance work on the security fence on the Israel-Egypt border. IDF forces pursued the terrorists who carried out the attacks and exchanged fire with them.
The weaponry found on the bodies of the terrorists who conducted the attacks included explosive vests and other explosive devices, a commando knife, self-made fragmentation grenades, Kalashnikov rifles, catridges and handcuffs (indicating that the terrorists intended to try to abduct an IDF soldier during the attacks).
April 24, 2011
A group of Breslav Hassidim was shot at by Palestinian policemen as they approached Joseph's Tomb near Nablus. Five worshippers were wounded, one of them - Ben-Yosef Livnat - was fatally wounded in the shooting.
April 17, 2011
A school bus near Kibbutz Sa'ad was fired upon by an anti-tank missile. The bus was empty except for the driver and a 16 year-old young man - Rafael Daniel Ariel Viflic. Daniel was mortally wounded in the attack.
March 11, 2011
At least one terrorist infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Itamar, southeast of Nablus, late Friday night (11 March) and stabbed to death Udi (36) and Ruth (35) Fogel, and their children Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and 3-month-old Hadas.
The killings occurred shortly after 10 p.m., when one or two attackers jumped the fence that surrounds Itamar and broke into the home of Ruth and Udi Fogel. The attackers went from room to room, first stabbing the father and the 3-month-old who were sleeping bed. From there, the attackers stopped the mother, Ruth, as she was coming out of the bathroom and stabbed her. They then went to the boys' bedroom, where they stabbed Yoav (11) as he read before stabbing Elad (4). Photos of the scene show a horrific sight and mixture of blood and children's toys.
Two other boys - Ro'ie, 8 and Yishai, 2 - were sleeping and apparently not seen so were not attacked.
The family's oldest child, 12- year-old Tamar, was out of the house at the time and alerted neighbors when no one opened the door for her.
After the funeral, 12-year-old Tamar promised her relatives, "I will be strong and succeed in overcoming this. I understand the task that stands before me, and I will be a mother to my siblings"
August 31, 2010
On the eve of the resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians in Washington, four Israeli civilians were murdered in their vehicle in a terrorist drive-by shooting attack on Route 60 near Kiryat Arba, east of Hebron, on Tuesday evening, August 31, 2010.
The four victims were driving on Route 60 near the entrance to Kiryat Arba when their vehicle came under fire. The victims were named as Yitzhak Ames, 47, and his wife Talya Ames, 45, Kochava Even Chaim, 37, and Avishai Shindler, 24, all from Beit Hagai. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Yitzhak and Talya Ames were the parents of six children. Talya Ames was nine months pregnant when she was killed by the terrorists.
Kochava Even Chaim was a teacher in Efrat. She left behind her husband and an 8 year-old daughter. Her husband,one of the first Zaka first aid volunteers to arrive at the scene, discovered that his wife was among the victims.
Avishai Shindler had only recently moved to Beit Haggai with his wife.
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