1. On May 31st 1953, Palestinian terrorists that infiltrated from #Lebanon had opened fire on Israeli civilians near Safed, including on a minibus with Israeli schoolchildren that were on a school trip.
The incident occurred approximately at 20:30\8:30 PM , 2km from Mount Meron. An ambushed cell armed with a machine gun opened fire on cars passing in the area.
16 year old Isaiah Pickler was murdered and 3 other teens were wounded , including 1 critically.
Isaiah (Shaikeh), son of Leah and Chaim, was born in Focșani Romania in 1936. He grew up in Romania.
During the Holocaust, the father of the family perished.
A few years later, in 1950, Isaiah, his mother, his sister Giza and his brothers Moshe, Reuven and Herman made alliyah.
The family settled in the Even Yehuda local council. Due to the difficult economic situation, Isaiah was sent to a high school in the Neve Hadassah boarding school of the Youth Aliyah Institute at kibbutz Tel Yitzhak. He was murdered while on a school trip.
2. On May 31st 1965, Jordanian legion soldiers had , once again , randomly opened heavy fire towards the Notre Dame of Jerusalem cathedral and Musrara neighborhood on the border between the borders of Jordanian controlled east #Jerusalen and Israeli controlled west Jerusalem.
Dozens of Israeli civilians were murdered from the Jordanian legions fire towards the Musrara neighborhood in #Jerusalem throughout the years since the founding of the state of #Israel, with little to no international condemnation nor any action.
The attack began at 15:00\3PM.
First , the Jordanian soldiers had targeted civilian homes in the area. 14 year old Yaffa Binyamin fled to her neighbors apartment as the shots rang out.
Her neighbor Alegriyah, which was used to the random shooting , looked outside from a window and was shot and seriously wounded immediately by the Jordanian soldiers fire , Yaffa ran to help her and was shot and murdered immediately.
After firing towards the homes , the Jordanian soldiers opened heavy fire towards the Notre Dame of #Jerusalem cathedral wounding 3 nuns that were walking in the compound and murdering Israeli Christian man , Jerris Assous, which was installing a window in the cathedral .
Yaffa Binyamin was born in Be'er Sheva in 1951. She grew up in a warm family, olim from Iran and Iraq, the eldest sister of eight brothers and sisters. The family moved to the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem, she was attending the Beit Yaakov girls school.
Jeris Assous, the son of Rashida and Yussef, was born in Nazareth in 1934. He grew up and was educated in the city.
When he grew up he moved to Jerusalem, and worked as a carpenter in Notre Dame Monastery overlooking the Old City.
3. On May 31st 2001 , Tzvika Shleif was murdered after Palestinian terrorists opened fire towards his vehicle near Baqa Al Sharqiyeh in the northern part of the #WestBank

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