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1. On the night between June 14th-15th,Palestinian terrorists that infiltrated from Lebanon had attacked the Israeli Arab towns of Arab Al Aramsheh, Jouradah, Khirbet Arabeen,Khirbet Mughrees and Arab Al Soumaniyeh murdering 1 civilian and injuring 9 more including children.

During the attack , that was motivated as “revenge for collaboration with Israel” , 3 civilian homes were bombed and dozens of other homes were attacked with gunfire.

60 year old Mohammad Abdul Ghani from Arab Al Aramsheh was murdered in one of the bombed homes and 9 people were hospitalized in severe condition , including children , in a hospital in Haifa with more then dozens wounded that were treated locally and did not seek hospitalization

2. On June 14th , a Palestinian terrorist had stabbed and murdered Yisrael Tenenbaum, the 72 year old security guard of Sironit Hotel in Netanya.

Yisrael, son of Zorach, was born on September 11, 1921, in Poland.
Yisrael made aliya to Israel in 1957, at the age of 36, and lived in Moshav Ein Vered.
All these years he was a farmer in the moshav.
The members of the moshav remembered him as a quiet and humble man.

For the last nine years of his life, he found a job as a security guard at the Sironit Hotel in Netanya.
On the morning of Monday, June 14, 1993, Israel's body was found in the Sironit Hotel in Netanya, where he worked as a night watchman. .

Israel was 72 at the time of his murder.
He left a wife - Mina, children - Aryeh and Esther, and grandchildren - Chen, Alon, Idan and Jordana.
He was laid to his eternal rest in the cemetery in Moshav Ein Vered, where he lived.

3. On June 16th , Syrian sniper had opened fire on 3 Israeli hydrologists that were installing a device to record the water flow in the Jordan river near Mishmar HaYarden.
Murdering 1 of them and injuring the 2 others.

The incident occurred during routine works in Israeli territory that happened before without any attacks by any Syrian forces.

1 of the hydrologists , 50 year old Misha Faktorowitz , was critically wounded , his wounded colleagues tried to save him by taking him to a hospital in Tiberias but it was too late and he passed away due to his injuries

Michail “Misha” Fektorovitz was born in Kiev,Ukraine, son Yaakov Fektorovich and Rachel (from the Bialitzerkowski family) in May 1907.
His family was a religious family who immigrated from a neighboring village, and his father had a small factory for sewing leather for shoes.

In his youth he was involved in sports and reached high achievements in high jump (first place in a regional youth competition) and in discus throwing (which accompanied him everywhere even after his immigration to Israel).

After the communist take over and the USSR was formed , he joined the Hashomer HaTza’ir movement, which was an underground Zionist movement in the Soviet Union

In 1925, at the age of 18, he was captured by the KGB and sentenced to imprisonment and deportation for his Zionist activities, which were considered by the authorities to be anti-Soviet.
After about two years in which he was imprisoned in Soviet prisons.

Misha was sentenced to deportation and sent to Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan and later to Aktyubinsk.
During this period of deportation he joined a commune with a large and cohesive group of Zionist youth deported to Siberia.

Many of those he met will later make alliyah to Israel and establish Kibbutz Afikim in northern Israel.

During the deportation period, Misha worked as a surveyor, and at the same time studied and graduated in mechanical engineering. In 1929, his exile sentence was converted to Siberia - with deportation from the USSR, and he made aliya to Israel.

Upon his arrival in Israel, he was hired as a road and land surveyor at the "Hachsharat HaYishuv”.This work allowed him to get to know the country At the same time he completed engineering studies, written studies, and joined as an activist in the defense and aviation club.

This acquaintance with the young volunteers led to Misha's wedding to Judith and In 1936, Misha also joined as a friend in Kfar Giladi, where they established their home and later raised 4 children there: Amnon, Eleanor, Eddie and Rachel.

He was 50 at the time of his murder. Left a wife and four children. Misha was laid to his eternal rest in the cemetery at Kibbutz Kfar Giladi

4. On June 16th 1975 , terrorists infiltrated from #Lebanon had began attacking Israeli civilian communities on the border , launching rockets at Metula, Kiryat Shmona and Nahariya and then infiltration from and taking hostages in Kfar Yuval.

On June 15, 1975, at 01:27 AM, a squad of terrorists from the Arab Liberation Front crossed the border fence from Lebanon on their way to Kfar Yuval.
The fact of the infiltration was found after 3 hours at 4AM and the information was delivered to IDF and police.

IDF immediately deployed forces along the border and in the border communities to prevent any possible attacks.

At 04:45 AM the terrorist cell entered moshav Kfar Yuval.
At 04:50, the terrorists made its first contact with one of the residents of the moshav wich immediately alerted the IDF forces .

A large gunfight lasting 10 minutes erupted , during which a general alert was declared throughout the civilian communities near by and sirens sounded. As the firefight was ongoing , the terrorists moved to 1 of the near by homes in which the Moredchai family was living

The family could not leave their home and run to the public shelters as the gunfight was too close to their home and they were afraid that they would be hit.

Approximately at 05AM the terrorists stormed inside the civilian home of the Mordechai family One of the family members, Nehemiah Yosef-Hai, who was a soldier, tried to resist the terrorists by barricading the doors of the house, but the terrorists murdered him instantly .

The rest of the members of the household, some of them wounded, were taken hostage by the terrorists.
Immediately, massive IDF and police forces were moved towards the moshav.

Approximately at 05:10AM , probably as a failed diversion tactic, rockets were fired towards Kiryat Shmona , Metulla and Nahariya causing damage to civilian infrastructure but no injuries

At 05:40, an improvised IDF situation room was set up nearby and the planning of the storm began. One of the moshav residents described the structure of the house to the commanders of the force.

Ya’kov Mordechai , husband of Simcha Mordechai , 1 of the hostages, who left for work just half an hour ago returned and asked the IDF to join the intervention forces that were building up near the home , he was initially refused but later IDF agreed as he was a reserve soldier

Negotiations began with the terrorists at 07AM ,with the help of local resident Rahamim Cohen, who volunteered for the mission as he spoke Arabic.
He was later replaced by a Lebanese-Israeli named Leon Grego, who spoke excellent Arabic and tried to calm the terrorists.

The terrorists made the hostages to stand in the windows of the home with banners in which the terrorists were demanding the release of terrorists detained in Israeli prisons, including the Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto (1 of the terrorists from the Lod airport massacre)

Approximately at 07:50 the storming of the building began , the forces opened fire towards 1 of rooms eliminating the terrorist which was holding the negotiations.

Ya’akov Mordechai stormed the building before the IDF forces that tried to stop him , during the firefight Ya’akov was hit with the terrorists gunfire and was murdered.
The gunfight lasted at least 5 minutes until all the terrorists were neutralized.

In addition to Nechemia , Ya’akov , Simcha ,Ya’akovs wife , was critically wounded by the terrorists fire and passed away due to the wounds the next day.
After his murder, Ya’akov Mordechai was awarded the Medal of Courage for his actions posthumously

The attack was carried out by 4 terrorists of Iraqi, Turkish ,Palestinian and Moroccan origin.
In response to the attack , the Israeli Air Force attacked targets in Kafer Chouba in Lebanon.

Simcha Mordechai,daughter of Zippora and Yitzhak Yosef-Hai, was born in Cochin, India on the 28th of November 1953.
At a young age she made aliya to Israel with her family and they lived in Kfar Yuval, a moshav in the Upper Galilee near the Lebanese border.

Simcha was 21 at the time of her murder. Left an orphaned son.
She was laid to her eternal rest, at a joint funeral with her husband and brother, in the cemetery in Kfar Yuval.

Ya’akov Son of Eliyahu and Hannah. He was born on January 6, 1950, in Cochin, India.Made aliya to Israel with his family in 1954.
Yaakov attended the elementary school in Kfar Yuval, where the family lived. Afterwards, he graduated from the Ahuzat Naftali school in Tiberias.

Yaakov was drafted into the IDF in November 1967, and he is 17. He was assigned to the infantry and after his training he completed a parachuting course and graduated with great success.

In 1973, Yaakov married Simcha. During the Yom Kippur War, she took great care of her because of her complicated pregnancy.

They first moved in Neve Ativ, but Yaakov was not satisfied with his involvement in tourism. He aspired to the countryside, to manual labor, to early awakening, to create.
So he moved to Kiryat Shmona, to Kfar Yuval, and there the disaster happened.

Nechemia Chai-Yossef, son to Yitzchak and Tzipora. Born on the June 11th 1957, in Nevatim.
After a while, the family moved to Kfar Yuval.
There he graduated from elementary school, and later went on to study at Mikveh Israel High School majoring in agriculture

After graduating from 9th grade, he began working on his father's farm. Nehemiah or 'Nami', as he was called, loved farming and especially coop work and poultry care. Every morning he would get up and start working: feed the birds and then go out to work in the field.

He was a great help to his father, who consulted him a lot in various fields and usually had the same opinions as him. Nehemiah was drafted into the IDF in late May 1975 and assigned to the Armored Corps. During his training, he completed a rifle course.

5. On June 16th 1996 , Palestinian terrorists opened fire on an Israeli family that was shopping in a Palestinian store just near Ariel, murdering the father , Meir Alloush, and injuring the mother and their infant child.

On Sunday, June 16, 1996, at noon, Meir, , went in with his wife and son to buy a walker in an Arab-owned store at the entrance to Ariel.The day before he had visited the same store, and told the owner that he would return.

The family was detained by the store owner for a few minutes, then the terrorist came in and opened fire on them.
Meir was murdered on the spot, his wife who was holding their baby was injured were both injured.

Meir Alloush,son of Juliet and Charles, was born in Israel on December 9th 1955. He grew up in Binyamina with his five brothers and sisters, studied there at the Hanadiv school and in high school moved to the Mevoot Yam marine school in Mikhmoret.

After his military service he worked on the merchant navy ship 'Zirius'. Meir (Miro, according to his friends) then enlisted in the Israel Police and worked at the Border Police, at the BGN airport and in other positions.

In 1984, Meir married Nitza and the couple had two children: Eviatar and Chai Yosef Chaim. In his spare time, Meir, who from an early age was an avid football player, refereed football matches.

Meir was 40 at the time of murder.
Left a wife and two sons, a mother, brothers and sisters. He was laid to his eternal rest in the military section of the cemetery in Binyamina.

6. On June 17th 1969 , Jordanian and Iraqi artillery stationed on the Israeli border had opened heavy mortar shell fire in the southern Jordan valley,murdering a 25 year old US tourist Shirley Anderson and 65 year old Israeli Chaim Mizrahi and injuring 4 other civilians.

The incidents began at 8AM that day as the Jordanian artillery opened heavy fire on tourists present near the Qasr El Yahoud baptism site on the Jordan river south east of Jericho, murdering 65 year old Chaim Mizrahi that was accompanying a group of US tourists.

Moments after , the Iraqi forces stationed stationed on the border had began shelling Kaliya beach in the northern part of the Dead Sea , specifically targeting a group of US and Canadian tourists that were just brought by taxi drivers from east Jerusalem.

One of the mortar shells had impacted right on the parking lot , murdering 25 year old Shirley Anderson from the US , moderately injuring Ayleen Bonnet a Canadian tourist and their driver Abdel Kareem Eineh from East Jerusalem, another driver was lightly wounded.

Serious damage was done to the Kaliya hotel and café , 4 taxis were burned and serious damage was done to the beach installations

Number of shells also impacted in Jericho seriously wounding 1 Palestinian in the city.
Serious damage was done to some buildings in the city.

Despite the the rocket shelling , the tourists had stated to Israeli media then that they’re not going to cut their visit short and will continue traveling in Israel.

IDF retaliated destroying the Jordanian and Iraqi artillery batteries.

Chaim Mizrahi, the son of Esther and Jacob, was born in Iraq in 1904.
At the age of twenty he made aliya to Israel. Haim lived in Jerusalem with his wife Rachel and their daughters Tzipora, Zehava and Hadassah.

65 years old at the time of his murder , he left a wife and 3 children. He was laid to his eternal rest in Jerusalem.

7. On June 17th 2003 Palestinian terrorists who were waiting in an ambush near the Eyal junction (north of Qalqilya) opened heavy fire on the Leibowitz family's vehicle,that were on their way to their home.
Murdering 7 year old Noam and injuring 3 other family members

The attack took place ar night around 23:30/11:30PM: The family was on their way back to their home in the town of Yemin Orad near Haifa, after a family bar mitzvah celebration in Jerusalem.

The parents Galit and Shlomo Leibowitz drove their Mazda-MPV van with their 4 children, as well as their grandparents.

At Eyal Junction, heavy fire was opened at the car, and several members of the family were hit. Following the shooting,Shlomo lost control of the car and hit another vehicle, whose occupants were not injured.

Emergency teams arrived at the scene and started treating 3 year old Shira that was severely wounded and the lightly wounded 11 year old Moshe and the 70 year old grandfather.
They attempted to resuscitate 7-year-old Noam but had to pronounce her dead on the scene.

Both the PFLP and Fatah have claimed responsibility for this murderous terror attack.

Noam, daughter of Galit and Shlomo Haim, was born in Israel on August 3, 1995, a little sister to Hila and Moshe.
When she was about five years old, her sister Shira was born, whom Noam always cared for, cared for and cared for with love.

Noam was born in Hadera, and at a young age she moved for a few years to the United States, where her parents did a mission. When they returned to Israel, they lived in the "Yemin Orad" boarding school in the Hof HaCarmel, where both parents worked.

Noam attended the state-religious school in the nearby Moshav Nir Etzion. She also sang in the school choir, and was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement.
Noam loved,the green spaces, hiking in nature and climbing trees.

Noam always loved to save and care for all kinds of animals: butterflies, turtles, birds, dogs and cats.

7 years and 10 months old at the time of her murder.
Noam left parents, a brother and two sisters, an overwhelmed family and hundreds of friends and friends whose light of joy touched their hearts.
She was laid to her eternal rest in the Nir Etzion cemetery.

8. On June 18th 1949 , a group of Palestinian terrorists had infiltrated Israel from the then Jordanian controlled #WestBank , and murdered 2 Israeli civilians that were collecting water in a water well near Rehovot, and an off duty IDF soldier in western Jerusalem.

Asher Grossman , son of Yitzhak and Sara, was born in Czechoslovakia in 1923.
He fought as a partisan throughout the years of World War II, which broke out when he was about 17. After the war he married Chaya Dina and the couple had daughters Sarah and Rachel.

The family made aliya to Israel in early 1949 with the beginning of the wave of immigration after the establishment of the state, and lived in Rehovot.
Asher worked as a guard in agricultural lands near Rehovot.

Who was 26 at the time of his murder, left a wife and two daughters.
He was laid to his eternal rest in the Rehovot cemetery

Isaiah Farkash son of Michel and Sarah, was born in the Czech Republic in 1909.
After graduating he started working. He married Hannah Leah and the couple raised four children.
At the beginning of 1949, the family made aliya to Israel.

The family lived in Rehovot , Isaiah worker as a guard that guarded agricultural lands and water wells in the area.

Isaiah was 40 at the time of his murder, leaving a wife and four children.
He was laid to his eternal rest, next to his friend , Asher Grossman, in the old cemetery in Rehovot.

9. On the morning of June 18th 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber from Bethlehem got onto the Egged line 32A bus, which was on its way from Gilo neighborhood to the Central Bus Station, stopping also at Beit Safafa.
As the bus reached the Pat junction, the terrorist exploded.

The terrorist got onto the bus , approximately at 07:50AM, right at the peak of the morning rush hour , as the bus was packed with schoolchildren on their way to their schools and workers on their way for their day jobs.

According to eyewitnesses , the terrorist ran into the bus from the back door , and continued into the front of the bus , second after the explosion occurred.

When the terrorist ran inside , many passengers already knew what is going to happen and tried to duck for cover , but it was too late. The large suicide vest, filled with metal shrapnel , screws and nails blew up utterly destroying the frontal part of the bus.

The force of the explosion was so strong that most of the passengers , both murdered and wounded, got thrown away from the bus into the outside , onto incoming traffic, to the side of the road or back to the bus station.

Many car drivers and passengers, and people in bus stations were also wounded from the shrapnels and nails that were dispersed by the suicide bombers explosion.

Overall 19 passengers were murdered , and at least 74 people were hospitalized with injuries of different difficulties, 6 were in critical condition.

All of the victims of the attack were civilians: 18 of those murdered in the attack were Jews, 17 were residents of Gilo, 1 was an Palestinian Arab from northern
#WestBank that lived in Beit Safafa (southern #Jerusalem)

Shiri Nagari, daughter of Esther-Miriam and Tuvia, was born in Jerusalem on July 21, 1980.
Sister to Sharon, Shelly-Tova, Shai-Rafael and Shachar-Moshe. She grew up and was educated in Jerusalem, studied at the Brandt State-Religious School in Neve Ya'akov.

In her military service, Shiri served as a teacher-soldier, and worked at a youth center in Kiryat Yam.
As part of her assignment, she taught children who dropped out of regular study frameworks, and helped students who had difficulty in their studies.

After finishing her service in the IDF, Shiri worked as an assistant to a dentist and in a camping equipment store, and saved money for a trip abroad. When she had saved enough, she went on a trip to South America.

After about a year traveling Shiri in South America, including a period working in New York to fund the second part of the trip, she decided to return. Her family told her that she might want to continue traveling, away from the mess and risks of terrorist attacks in the country

But Shiri missed her family and came home. She planned to start studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the end of 2002, had already enrolled in biology and Jewish thought classes, and until then had worked temporarily at Bank Leumi.

On that fateful Tuesday morning, June 18, 2002, Shiri left her home in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem on her way to work. She missed bus number 32A passing near her house, so she joined her mother, who was leaving the house at that time, in order to make the bus

Shiri got off at the next station, and her mother continued on her way to bring Shiriyounger brother to school.
Shiri made the bus there , boarded it , an right on the next station the suicide bomber cut her life short.

Shiri was 22 at the time of the murder.
She left parents, two brothers and two sisters.
She was laid to her eternal rest in the Mount of Beatitudes cemetery, Jerusalem, where she was buried near her grandfather's grave.

Gila (Giselle) Goldman, daughter of Alice and Bernard Goldman, was born on May 17, 1947, in France.
Daughter of Holocaust survivors, sister to George and Gerard.
She grew up and was educated in Paris

In the early 1970s, after the death of her mother, Gila made aliya to Israel.
She fell in love with Jerusalem and chose to live in it, and later to establish her family there. Gila married, and between 1973 and 1982 her daughters were born: Ella, Orit and Noa.

For thirty years, until 2001, Gila worked as a travel agent for Travex, and in 2002 began working in the offices of “Elad” (El Ir David - “To the City of David") in Jerusalem.

Gila was an optimistic woman, with an eternal smile.
Everyone who knew her cherished her constant joy of life, even in difficult times. "Mother worked hard," her daughters said, "and did not give up despite the difficulties life posed to her."

In the last years of her life, she lived in the Gilo neighborhood, and in the last year of her life, she dedicated all her spare time to her first grandchild.

That fateful day ,Gila took bus 32A to central #Jerusalem where she worked ? from her home in Gilo neighborhood, never knowing that she will never return.

55 years old at her murder.
Gila left three daughters and a grandson.
She was laid to her eternal rest in the Givat Shaul cemetery, in Jerusalem.

Yelena Pelegov, daughter of Yuri, was born on August 18, 1959, in the Soviet Union, where she grew up and was educated.
From an early age, Yelena attended university and was certified as a family physician.

She married Andrei Pelegov and their children were born: daughter Ksenia, and sons Arseni and Konstantin. Yelena was a devoted woman and mother, who managed to navigate well between her demanding work and family

At the beginning of 2001, Andrei made aliya to Israel to prepare the infrastructure for bringing his family to Israel. He rented an apartment in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem, and at the end of that year, Yelena and his three children also made aliya.

Yelena began studying Hebrew at the local ulpan, and planned to return to work as a doctor.
That fateful day, Yelena boarded the bus 32A to her Ulpan, never to return home.

42 years old at her murder. Yelena left a husband, a daughter and two sons.
She was laid to her eternal rest in the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem.

Rahamim (Rami), son of Hannah and Israel, was born on May 29, 1951, in Jerusalem. He grew up in Jerusalem, attended Horev Elementary School and went on to ORT, where he was certified as a car mechanic.

After serving in the army, Rami worked as a mechanic in a garage, and in 1975 he joined the Egged Cooperative as a member.
From then until his murder he worked as a bus driver.

Rami and lived in Jerusalem with his family. He was an exemplary family man, a devoted son to his parents, a loving husband and father whose main focus was on his children and wife.

Really loved spending time with family, hiking with them in nature, having picnics with the kids and pampering them at every opportunity

Rami was the bus driver that was on route 32A that fateful day , he was not supposed to work that day but agreed to take the shift from another driver that asked him to.

51 years old at his murder.
Rami was laid to his eternal rest in the Givat Shaul cemetery, Jerusalem.
Left parents, wife and children, two sisters and a brother.

Shani Abutzadka daughter of Bella and Eli, was born in Jerusalem on July 16, 1986. A second girl in her family, a sister to three sons: Liron, Nadav and Or. She grew up and was educated in Jerusalem, attended the "Tal”i" elementary and middle schools in the Gilo neighborhood.

After graduating from middle school, she decided not to continue to a traditional high school, and moved to Boyer High School in the Beit VaGan neighborhood.

Shani was a diligent and wise student. She was involved in various school activities, and was known and appreciated among her friends and teachers alike. She was also active in the framework of youth in a community center at her age.

As part of a personal commitment on behalf of the school, she cared for a girl who was referred to her by the Ministry of Defense in the afternoon. In addition, she would from time to time give private lessons to children in her area of ​​residence.

At the end of June 2002, Shani was scheduled to travel to Berlin, Germany, as part of a reciprocal project between her school and a school in Berlin. She was to be hosted by a local family, their daughter of the same age.

In advance, she made a warm connection with her future hosts via the Internet, bought gifts for everyone and waited impatiently for the trip, that she will never live to experience.
The family from Berlin made it to Israel for her funeral

Shani was 16 when she murdered. Left parents and three siblings. She was laid to her eternal rest in the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem.

Helena (Lela) was born on August 16, 1939, in Romania, in the village of Oltenița.
She grew up and was educated in Romania.

In the late 1960s, Helena began working as a caregiver at the Arena and Nikolai Minay home in Bucharest, the Romanian capital. She soon became an integral part of the family, and was considered by the children as a "second mother."

Her fate was linked to the fate of the Minay family forever when in 1977 she rescued the family's children from the rubble of their home, during the Great Vrancea earthquake when most of Bucharest was destroyed.

When members of the Minay family made aliya to Israel in 1983, it was clear to them that Helena was joining in their transition to a new life in a new land. The family lived in Jerusalem.

It was not easy for Helena in Israel with temporary legal status, but soon she fell in love with the place and the people, and her whole wish was to be Israeli.Her happiness knew no bounds when in 1992, Helena received her citizenship from the State of Israel after converting.

62 years old at her murder. Helena was laid to her eternal rest in Jerusalem.

Boaz Machlufi , son of Shulamit and Zechariah, was born in Jerusalem on March 29, 1948). The youngest son in his family, the brother of Kochava and Udi.He grew up and was educated in Jerusalem. He studied at the "Tachkemoni" school and the "Beit Hinuch" high school.

After graduating from high school, Boaz enlisted in the IDF and served in the Air Force as a mechanic. After his military service, he applied to study computer science at Hadassah College in Jerusalem.

Upon graduation, he qualified as a computer engineer, and began working at Bank Tefahot in the city center, to which he took a bus on that fateful day.

54 years old at the time of his murder.
Boaz left a wife, three daughters, two sons, a mother, a brother and a sister. He was laid to his eternal rest in the Mount of Beatitudes cemetery in Jerusalem.

Galila Bogale, the daughter of Kiddist and Barhano, was born in Jerusalem on March 17, 1991. Younger sister to Hanok,she lived with her family in Jerusalem.

Galila's parents met in Jerusalem in 1983. Her father made aliya to Israel in 1979, and her mother in 1982. The two married and returned to Ethiopia to hold the wedding party there.
At the end of the marriage celebrations he returned to Israel, and lived in Jerusalem.

In 1996, the Bogale family moved to the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem. Galila's parents worked in the hotel industry, and she and her brother visited the school bench. Galila studied at the "Paula Ben Gurion" school in the Rehavia neighborhood.

She was very fond of music, singing and dancing, and would often prepare performances for her parents and friends. Everyone loved her, and she loved everything.

In the period between 1999 to 2001, when Palestinian terrorists will regularly fire heavy machine gun fire at the Gilo neighborhood,She used to talk about it with her friends and especially with her brother Hanok, to whom she was particularly close.

Galila was 11 years old at the time of her murder. Left parents and brother. She was laid to rest in the Mount of Beatitudes Cemetery in Jerusalem.

Galilas funeral was attended by thousands including representatives of the Prime Minister, Jerusalem Municipality, a representative of the Israeli Ethiopian community, a representative of the Ethiopian Church,the principal of the school where she studied, her teachers and friends

Michal Marciano, daughter of Zahara and Eliyahu, was born in Jerusalem on July 16, 1978.
A daughter in a family blessed with children, and she had three brothers and three sisters.

She grew up and was educated in Jerusalem, attending the "Ezra Zion" school and the Evelina de Rothschild Girls' High School.
Michal lived with her husband, Barak in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem.

She worked at the Ministry of Tourism in Jerusalem, as secretary of the director of the publications department. Michal was highly valued in her office, so she was sent for advanced training.

On that fateful day Michal was scheduled to begin the first day of advanced training, to which she was sent by the Ministry of Tourism. As usual, she set off with her husband Barak.

On the way, Michal remembered that she had forgotten a bag with change of clothes at home: the couple was preparing to go out together, at the end of the day, to a family event, and in the bag were found a number of items that Michal could not give up.

Michal, who did not want to be late to her job, asked her husband to return home and bring her what she wanted, and she herself boarded an Egged bus, line 32A.

Michal was 23 when she murdered.
She left a husband, parents and six brothers and sisters. She was laid to her eternal rest in the Mount of Beatitudes Cemetery in Jerusalem.

Rafi (Raphael) Berger , son of Ruth and Shmuel, was born in Jerusalem on March 23, 1974, a brother to Noam. He attended the David Yellin Elementary School and a high school near the Hebrew University with emphasis on studying mathematics and chemistry.

After graduating from high school, Rafi enlisted in the IDF, and served in the Armored Corps as a liaison. After his release from the IDF, Rafi worked at a gas station for a few months and then worked as a security guard for the Jerusalem Municipality.

Rafi was married to Orit, a music teacher by profession. The two lived in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem.

28 years old at his murder. Rafi left a wife, parents and a brother. He was laid to his eternal rest in the Givat Shaul cemetery, Jerusalem.

Leah Baruch, daughter of Nissim, was born in 1943 in Iraq. When she was six years old, the family made aliya to Israel, after the death of the father of the family,they lived in Jerusalem. From a young age, Leah worked to help support the family, completing her evening studies.

Leah married and her daughters Hani and Maggie were born.
Leah was a devoted and loving mother, a generous and compassionate woman to all people as well as to animals.
A quiet and unobtrusive woman, but strong and charismatic who entered the hearts of all her acquaintances.

In the mid-1980s, Leah began working as a housekeeper in the presidential residence. The president then was Haim Herzog, and soon a warm personal relationship prevailed between the president and his family and Leah.

Until the day she was murdered, she worked at the President's estate, with Presidents Haim Herzog, Ezer Weizmann and Moshe Katsav.
That fateful day , she took her bus to work as usual , never knowing that she will never make it.

59 years old at her murder. Leah left two daughters.
She was laid to her eternal rest in the Givat Shaul cemetery, Jerusalem

Mendel Barzon, son of Nehama and Absay, was born in Dzisna, (then Poland,now Belarus) on October 15, 1930.
Brother to Eliyahu Chaim, Yitzhak, Fira and Sima. He grew up and was educated in his hometown, and later in Saint Petersburg.

Mendels parents , all of his siblings and most of his extended family with all of Dzisnas Jewish community were murdered in the Holocaust.

Mendel grew up marrying Shifra and was the father of Nina and Semyon. He worked as an engineer-engineer at various shoe factories in Leningrad, Russia, and specialized in the production of modern shoe models.

Mendel made aliya to Israel with his family in April 1991. They live in Jerusalem, in the Gilo neighborhood. Mendel, always full of the joy of life, loved Jerusalem. "He was the backbone of the family and would devote most of his time to his 3 grandchildren,"family members said

Mendel was 71 at the time of his murder. Left a wife, daughter, son and grandchildren.
He was laid to his eternal rest in the Mount of Beatitudes cemetery in Jerusalem.

Tatiana Breslavski daughter of Inna and Boris, was born in the city of Tashkent in the USSR on March 20, 1961. Sister to Raya.
Tatiana graduated with a master's degree from the Tashkent Railway Engineering Institute.

Tatiana married Alexander. The couple had a son - Igor.
The family made aliya to Israel in October 1991, and lived in Jerusalem.
Soon after, Tatiana began working as a building engineer for the “Eshed” company.

On Tuesday morning, June 18, 2002, Tatiana left for her place of work as usual. Her son, Igor, usually accompanied her, but this time, miraculously, he left earlier and took another bus , saving his life.

Tatiana was 41 at the time of her murder.
Left parents, husband, son and sister.
She was laid to her eternal rest forever on Mount of Beatitudes in Jerusalem.

Moshe, son of Pauline and Rabbi Chaim-Shlomo Yosef Halevi, was born in New York in the United States on January 23, 1932. Brother to Seymour, Baruch and Yehuda. He was educated in his youth in the Torah institutions of the Torah and Da'at Yeshiva in the United States.

He also studied for a long time with the great Gaon Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Sheinberg, head of the Torah Or Yeshiva. As an adult, Moshe traded in furs. He then moved to Los Angeles, attended the College of Chiropractic and earned a Ph.D.

He worked privately as a holistic chiropractor (a specialist in skeletal and spinal bone structure) privately for 35 years.

Moshe married Sheila, and the couple had 2 children , Seymour and Feiga-Hanna. He loved the Land of Israel very much and dreamed of making aliya to Israel, and indeed in November 1978) the family members made aliya to Israel, and moved to Jerusalem.

On Tuesday morning, June 18, 2002, after giving the daily lesson in the Mishnayot, praying Shacharit and eating Pet Shacharit, Moshe set out for Tel Hai Hospital to provide voluntary treatments. He boarded the Egged bus on line 32A

Moshe was 70 at the time of his murder.
Left a wife, son and daughter, grandchildren and brothers. He was laid to his eternal rest in the Mount Tamir cemetery in Jerusalem.

Baruch Garwani. son of Simcha and Zechariah, was born in Jerusalem on December 21st 1942. He had four brothers and four sisters. He lived with his family in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem. After the War of Independence, the family moved to the Mamilla neighborhood.

Baruch graduated from an elementary school for boys in Jerusalem. He combined his high school studies with work in the printing department at "Mashbir", in order to help support the family.

He spent his military service in the Artillery Corps. After graduating, he was hired by the military industry and worked there for over thirty years, as an engraver and in charge of grinding machines.

In 1969, Baruch married Esther nee Tzemach. The couple had four children: Menachem and Oded the twins, followed by Doron and Shira. Baruch lived with his family for 17 years in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem, after which they moved to the Gilo neighborhood.

Baruch was an exemplary father and a devoted and loving husband. When his wife Esther became seriously ill he did not get out of bed for a long time and nursed her day and night, until she recovered.

Baruch was 59 years old at the time of his murder. Left a wife and four children, brothers and sisters. He was laid to his eternal rest in the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem.

Raisa Dikshtein daughter of Getzel, was born on February 9, 1933 in the Soviet Union, a sister to Igor. Grew up in Moscow.

As an adult, she worked as a high school teacher. After her retirement, she studied Hebrew and translated books from Hebrew into Russian, mainly translating material on the Holocaust.
In September 2000, Raisa made aliya to Israel. She lived in Jerusalem.

On that fateful day , Raisa took the bus 32A to her ulpan in central #Jerusalem.
Raisa was 69 when she died. Raisa placed a brother in Russia and a brother in Jerusalem. She was laid to rest in a Jerusalem cemetery.

Alfo (Orit), daughter of Veda (Varda) and Damke (Daniel), was born in the village of Avertensa in the Gondar area of ​​Ethiopia in 1982.
Alfo had 7 sibilings. At the age of 3 her family was rescued during Operation “Moshe” and made aliya to Israel.

Alfo or as she was called in Israel - Orit, was a graceful and cheerful girl, always happy in part and very active. She grew up in Ashkelon and attended Uziel Elementary School. A sociable and happy girl, kind and sensitive to others.

While in high school, Orit went to study in boarding school conditions at the "Giv’at Washington " ulpana in Yavne. After her days at the ulpana, she began studying in the Ateret seminary in Jerusalem.

In combination with her studies, Orit worked for a living at the "Lord Kitsch" clothing factory, in Givat Shaul in Jerusalem. Her job was to run the clothing store in the factory store

About two months before her murder, Orit moved to the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem with one of her schoolmates. At her age, Orit began to lead her life, independent in everything.

Orit was 20 when she was murdered.
She left parents and seven brothers and sisters.
She was laid to rest in the Givat Zion Cemetery in Ashkelon.

Liat Yagan ,daughter of Sarah and Aryeh, was born in Israel on the February 20th 1979. Sister to Yaakov, Yehuda, Yehudit and Yoni. She grew up and was educated in Jerusalem.

After graduating from high school, Liat volunteered for national service, and worked as a secretary in the office of the head of the Police Personnel Division, at the national headquarters in Jerusalem.

She continued working for the police for another two years, as a clerk at the national headquarters in Jerusalem , and in 2002 began working as a secretary at a law firm in the city.

On that fateful day , Liat and her youngest brother Yoni boarded together bus 32A , she was on her way to work and Yoni was on his way to school.
Yoni , who was lightly wounded would tell that Liat told him to move to the end of the bus as she was paying for their tickets.

Liat was 23 when she murdered.
Left parents, siblings and sister. She was laid to her eternal rest in the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem.

Ayman Kabha, son of Adila and Ghazi, was born in the village of Barta'a near Hadera on March 9, 1977.Ayman had a brother and five sisters. He attended the elementary school in the village of Barta'a and the high school in Umm al-Fahm.

Everyone loved Ayman. He was a warm and kind young man, who loved to help his many friends and family. He hated violence and could not stand arguments and fights. Ayman was a guy who loved to give up and always looked for the way to compromise and logic.

Ayman's parents would say: "He was a disciplined child distanced himself from naughty friends, and in the village everyone valued and respected him. It was easy to make friends with Ayman. He did not belong to any current or movement or party."

After graduating from High School, Ayman studied accounting at Ramat Gan College, and was certified as a Type 3 accountant and a tax consultant.

Ayman began studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in the Department of Accounting, and also studied special education at the "David Yellin" College in Jerusalem.

In addition to his studies, Ayman participated in the "Perach" project, a mentoring project for students in need.
He lived in a rented apartment with partners, and used to cook for everyone.

During the school holidays, Ayman worked in various jobs, as a truck driver, as a construction worker, as a gas station attendant or as a supermarket worker.

From a young age, Ayman was known as a particularly sociable type, a nature lover who often hiked in the mountains and open fields. In his spare time he really enjoyed playing and playing with the little children of the family.

From a young age Ayman loved football very much, and participated in the training and games of the village team. When he was a student at the university he was not allowed to continue playing with the team, but he never abandoned his love of the game.

That fateful day Ayman and his friends boarded an Egged bus on line 32A, which makes its way from Gill to central Jerusalem, on his way to the Hebrew University to submit an academic work he was tasked to do. Ayamans friends were seriously wounded , but he himself did not survive

Ayman was 24 at the time of his murder.
Left parents, brother and sisters.
He was laid to rest in the cemetery in the village of Barta'a, which was attended by funeral attended by many who knew and cherished him.