Dateline: Intifada #2 – Begins September, 2000
2000: 14 Jews murdered
Oct 8, 2000 – The bullet-riddled body of Hillel Lieberman, 36, of Elon Moreh was found at the southern entrance to Shechem.
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 Authority security forces opened fire on a group of Israeli men, women, and children on a trip at Mount Eval near Shechem.
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.
Nov 13, 2000 – Sarah Leisha, 42, of Neveh Tzuf was killed by gunfire from a passing car while travelling near Ofra, north of Ramallah.
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 Islamic sniper fire at the Gush Katif junction.
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.
Dec 28, 2000 – Capt. Gad Marasha, 30, of Kiryat Arba.
Dec 31, 2000 – Binyamin Zeev Kahane, the son of the late right-wing leader Meir Kahane, and his wife, Talia, were killed when Muslim snipers opened fire while they were driving on the Ramallah bypass road. Five of their children, aged two months to 10 years, were injured.
2001: 128 Jews murdered
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 25, 2001 – Akiva Pashkos, 45, of Jerusalem, was shot dead in an Islamic 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 Muslim gunmen who fired at his car near the Aroub refugee camp on the Jerusalem-Hebron highway.
Dateline: Ariel Sharon is elected Israeli Prime Minister on February 6, 2001
Feb 11, 2001 – Tzachi Sasson, 35, of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim in Gush Etzion, was shot and killed by Muslim gunmen as he drove home from Jerusalem.
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.
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 Muslims 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 an Islamic ambush as she drove with her father and brother on the Alon Highway to attend a family wedding. Muslims fired 30 bullets, 19 of which hit the family’s car.
May 18, 2001 – Lt. Yair Nebenzahl, 22, of Neve Tzuf (Halamish), was killed and his mother seriously wounded, in an Islamic roadside ambush north of Jerusalem.
May 29, 2001 – Gilad Zar, 41, of Itamar, was shot dead in an Islamic ambush while driving in Shomron 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 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 14, 2001 – Lt.Col. Yehuda Edri, 45, of Ma’ale Adumim was killed by an Arab 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 Shechem. 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 Muslim settlement of Silat a-Dahar.
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 – 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 an Islamic suicide 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 Muslims 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 Islamic 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 Muslim 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 Muslims 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 Muslims 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 Muslims 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 Authority 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 Islamic 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 Muslims from a roadside ambush while traveling between the communities of Har Bracha and Itamar, south of Shechem.
Aug 29, 2001 – Oleg Sotnikov, 35, of Ashdod, a truck driver employed by Dor Energy, was killed in a terrorist shooting attack outside the Arab village of Kutchin, west of Shechem.
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 Muslims.
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 Islamic 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 Muslims were arrested and a number of Islamic 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 an Islamic 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 Muslim, 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 Muslims in a machine gun ambush near Avnei Hefetz in central Israel.
Oct 7, 2001 – Yair Mordechai, 43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when an Islamic suicide attacker 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 Muslims 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 Muslims 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 Muslims, members of the PA 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 responsibility for the attack.
Nov.4, 2001 – Islamic gunmen shot and killed St.-Sgt. Raz Mintz, 19, of Haifa and lightly wounded another soldier on Friday night in a drive-by shooting at an IDF roadblock. The Fatah-affiliated Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 2, 2001 – St.-Sgt. Raz Mintz, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin was killed by Islamic gunmen at an IDF roadblock at near Ofra, north of Ramallah.
Nov 4, 2001 – Shoshana Ben-Yishai, 16, of Betar Illit and Menashe (Meni) Regev, 14, of Jerusalem were killed when a Muslim opened fire at an Egged bus in northern Jerusalem with a sub-machine gun, emptying a full magazine.
Nov 6, 2001 – Capt. (Res.) Eyal Sela, 39, of Moshav Nir Banim, was shot mortally wounded with a bullet to the stomach in an ambush by three Muslims on the southern Shechem bypass road.
Nov 9, 2001 Hadas Abutbul 39, mother of four, was shot in the back while on her way home by Muslims who set up a roadside ambush near the Yabed rubbish dump.
Nov 11, 2001 Aharon Ussishkin, 50, of Moshav Kfar Hess was shot to death by a Muslim.
Nov 25, 2001 Staff Sgt. Barak Madmon, 26, from Holon, was killed and two other soldiers were wounded by Gaza mortar fire at the Gush Katif community of Kfar Darom last night. Madmon suffered a fatal neck wound from shrapnel.
Nov 27, 2001 – Noam Gozovsky, 23, of Moshav Ramat Zvi, Michal Mor, 25, of Afula were killed when two Muslims from the Jenin area opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula.
Nov 27, 2001 – Etty Fahima, 45, of Netzer Hazani was killed when a Muslim threw grenades and opened fire at a convoy on the road between the Kissufim crossing and Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip
Nov 27, 2001 – St.-Sgt. Yaron Pikholtz z”l – Age 20 Israeli killed and three wounded (including a 2 year old) when their convoy was attacked in the Gaza Strip
Nov 29, 2001 – Yehiav Elshad, 28, of Tel-Aviv and Inbal Weiss, 22, of Zichron Ya’akovwas killed in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera.
Dec 1, 2001 – Two Islamic “Hamas” suicide bombers detonated explosive devices on Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, the pedestrian mall frequented by many young people on Saturday night. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. In addition to the ten people killed, 188 were injured in the terrorist attack. The dead include…Assaf Avitan,(15), Michael Moshe Dahan (21), Israel Ya’akov Danino (17), Yosef El-Ezra (18), Sgt. Nir Haftzadi (19), Golan Turgeman (15), Guy Vaknin (19), Moshe Yedid-Levy (19)… all from Jerusalem. Also among the murdered were Yuri Korganov (20) of Ma’alei Adumim and Adam Weinstein (14) of Givon Hahadasha.
Dec 2, 2001 – Prof. Baruch Zinger, 51, of Gedera was murdered and four people were wounded after two Arabs shot at several cars on the road between Elei Sinai and Nisanit
Dec 2, 2001 – Fifteen were murdered when yet another Islamic “Hamas” suicide bomber exploded himself, this time as Egged No.16 bus passed through the mixed Jewish-Arab Halissa district. Hizbullah’s radio and television stations expressed support for the attacks. Included among the dead were Tatiana Borovik (23), Mara Fishman (51), Ina Frenkel (60), Ronen Kahalon (30), Samion Kalik (64), Mark Khotimliansky (75), Cecilia Kozamin (76), Yelena Lomakin (62), Yitzhak Ringel (41), Rassim Safulin (78), Leah Strick (73), Faina Zabiogailu (64), Mikhail Zaraisky (71)…all from Haifa. Others murdered include Riki Hadad(30) of Yokne’am and Rosaria Reyes (42) of the Philippines
Dec 8, 2001 – Ido Cohen, 17, of Jerusalem, a victim of the Dec.1, 2001 suicide attack, died of his injuries.
Dec.12, 2001 – 10 Israelis dead and nearly 30 wounded (several critically) when two bombs exploded alongside a Dan bus, stopping it, then at least three Muslims opened fire with automatic rifles near the outskirts of Emmanuel. Murdered were Yair Amar (13) of Emmanuel, Esther Avraham (42) of Emmanuel, Esther Avraham (42) of Emmanuel, Israel Sternberg (46) of Emmanuel, Yirmiyahu Salem (48) of Emmanuel, Yoel Bienenfeld (35) of Moshav Tel Shahar, Avraham Nahman Nitzani (17) of Betar Illit, David Tzarfati (38) of Ginot Shomron and Hananya Tzarfati (32) of Ginot Shomron
Dec 25, 2001 – Sgt. (Res.) Michael Sitbon, 23, of Beit Shemesh was killed in a shooting attack Tuesday morning near the Jordanian border north of Beit She’an along the Jordanian border. Arab Muslims used a hunting rifle fitted with scope and silencer
2002: 383 Jews murdered
Jan 9, 2002 Sgt.- Maj. Ibrahim Hamadieh (23) of Rehaniya, Maj. Ashraf Hawash (28) of Beit Zarzir, Sgt.-Maj. Hana (Eli) Abu-Ghanem (25) of Haifa and St.-Sgt. Mofid Sawaid (25) of Abu Snan … all members of the IDF’s Bedouin desert patrol were killed when armed Muslims from the southern Gaza Strip infiltrated into Israel and attacked an IDF post near Kerem Shalom.
Jan 15, 2002 – Avraham (Avi) Boaz, 72, of Ma’aleh Adumim 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.
Jan 15, 2002 – Yoela Chen, 45, of Givat Ze’ev, was shot and killed by Muslims near the gas station at the entrance to Givat Ze’ev
Jan 17, 2002 – Edward Bakshayev, 48, of Or Akiva; Anatoly Bakshayev, 63, of Or Akiva; Aharon Ben Yisrael-Elis, 32, of Ra’anana; Dina Binayev, 48, of Ashkelon; Boris Melihov, 56, of Sderot; and Avi Yazdi, 25, of Hadera were killed and 35 injured, several seriously, when a Arab Muslim burst into a bat mitzva reception in a banquet hall in Hadera opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle.
Jan 22, 2002 – Sarah Hamburger, 79, and Svetlana Sandler, 56, both of Jerusalem were murdered when a Muslim opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem
Jan 27, 2002 – Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded when a female suicide bomber, Wafa Inris, detonated herself on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem.
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.
Feb 6, 2002 – St.-Sgt. Maj.(res.) Moshe Majos Meconen, 33, of Beit She’an was killed when an armed terrorist infiltrated Moshav Hamra, halfway between Jericho and Beit She’an in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday evening, opening fire.
Feb 8, 2002 – Moran Amit, 25, of Kibbutz Kfar Hanasi was stabbed to death by four Muslims, aged 14 to 16, while strolling in the Peace Forest, below 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. Islamic gunmen opened fire on the car, apparently from an ambush, between Ariel and the Tapuah Junction.
Feb 10, 2002 – IDF female soldiers Lt. Keren Rothstein, 20, of Ashkelon and Cpl. Aya Malachi, 18, of Moshav Ein Habesorwas were killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting by Arab Muslims at the entrance to the IDF Southern Command base in Be’er Sheva.
Feb 14, 2002 – St.-Sgt. Ron Lavie, 20, of Katzrin and St.-Sgt. Moshe Peled, 20, of Rehovot were killed when a powerful mine exploded under a IDF tank on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip, following the detonation of a roadside bomb at a civilian convoy of cars and a bus. “Happy Valentine’s Day” to the Jews who crammed the “Oslo Peace Accords” down Israel’s throat!
Feb 15, 2002 – St.-Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis, 20, of Holon, and St.-Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis, 20, of Holon, were shot and killed by gunmen on Friday night at a roadblock north of Ramallah.
Feb 16, 2002 – Nehemia Amar, 15, and Keren Shatsky, 15, of Ginot Shomron were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria.
Feb 18, 2002- Maj. Mor Yehuda Elraz (25), St.-Sgt. Amir Mansuri (21) and Ahuva Amergi (30) were killed and three wounded by a terrorist shooting at the entrance to Gush Katif –
Feb 19, 2002- Lt. Moshe Eini (21), St.-Sgt. Benny Kikis (20), St.-Sgt. Mark Podolsky (20), St.-Sgt. Erez Turgeman (20), St.-Sgt. Tamir Atsmi (21) and St.-Sgt. Michael Hochsman (21) were killed and another was wounded, in a shooting attack at a roadblock near the village of Ein Ariq, west of Ramallah
Feb 22, 2002- Valerie Achmir,(56) was killed by a shooting attack on his car on the road between Atarot and Givat Ze’ev, north of Jerusalem
Feb 25, 2002 – Avraham Fish, 65, of Nokdim, and Aharon Gorov, 46, of Nokdim, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim, south of Bethlehem. In another separate incident, 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 neighborhood in northern Jerusalem.
Feb 27, 2002 – Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed by one of his Muslim employees in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem.
Feb 27, 2002 – Rachel Theler, 16, of Ginot Shomron died of wounds suffered on February 16 when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria (see Feb 16, 2002)
Feb 28, 2002 – IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Haim Bachar, 20, of Tel-Aviv was killed during clashes with Muslims in the Balata refugee camp near Shechem.
Mar 1, 2002 – IDF soldier Sgt. Ya’acov Avni, 20, of Kiryat Ata was killed by Islamic 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.
Mar 2, 2002 – Shlomo Nehmad (40), Gafnit Nehmad (32), Shiraz Nehmad (7), Shaul Nehmad (15), Liran Nehmad (3), Oriah (18 months) and Lidor Ilan (12) from Rishon Lezion and Tzofia Eliyahu (32) and Ya’akov Avraham Eliyahu (7 months) from Jerusalem were all killed in a Arab terrorist suicide bombing on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. The bomber stood next to a group of mothers standing with their babies in strollers at the entrance to a guesthouse.
Mar 3, 2002 – Sergei Butarov (33) and Vadim Galigulov (32) of Ariel, Lt.(res.) David Damelin (29) of Kibbutz Metzar, Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Avraham Ezra (38) of Kiryat Bialik, Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eran Gad (24) and 1st Sgt.(res.) Rafael Levy (42) of Rishon Lezion, Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Yochai Porat (26) of Kfar Sava, Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Kfir Weiss (24) of Beit Shemesh, Capt. Ariel Hovav (25) and Didi Yitzhak (66) of Eli were killed when Muslims opened fire at an IDF checkpoint north of Ofra in Samaria.
Mar 3, 2002 – Sgt. Steven Koenigsburg, 19, of Hod Hasharon was killed and 4 soldiers injured when a Muslim gunman opened fire near the Kissufim crossing in the Gaza Strip.
Mar 4, 2002 – Avi Hazan, 37, of Kiryat-Gat, died of injuries suffered on March 2 in a suicide bombing near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem, bringing the death toll to 10 [see Mar 3, 2002]
Mar 5, 2002 – Police officer FSM Salim Barakat (33) of Yarka, Yosef Habi (52) of Herzliya and Eli Dahan (53) of Lod were killed in Tel-Aviv when a Muslim took up a position on a pedestrian bridge in the center of Tel-Aviv and opened fire with a long-barreled M-16 assault rifle at two restaurants below.
Mar 5, 2002 – Devorah Friedman (45) of Efrat was killed in shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass “tunnel” road, south of Jerusalem. Her car was ambushed by a Muslim near the Al-Khader junction, who fired 15 bullets at their car. Devorah was mortally wounded and her husband was injured in the attack.
Mar 5, 2002 – Maharatu Tagana (85) of Upper Nazareth was killed when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus station.
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 following the rocket attack on Sderot.
Mar 6, 2002 – Cpl.(res.) Alexander Nastarenko (37) of Netanya was killed when Islamic gunmen ambushed an army jeep patrol on the patrol road near Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Mar 7, 2002 – Arik Krogliak (18) of Beit El, Tal Kurtzweil (18) of Bnei Brak, Asher Marcus (18), Eran Picard (18) and Ariel Zana (18) of Jerusalem were murdered when a Islamic gunman penetrated the pre-military training academy in the Gush Katif settlement of Atzmona.
Mar 8, 2002 – St.-Sgt. Edward Korol (20) of Ashdod, the medic of the Golani’s Egoz unit, was murdered by an Islamic sniper in the Tulkarem refugee camp
Mar 9, 2002 – Avia Malka (9 months) of South Africa and Israel Yihye (27) of Bnei Brak were killed when two Muslims 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. Over 50 people were wounded.
Mar 9, 2002 – Limor Ben-Shoham (27), Livnat Dvash (28), Tali Eliyahu (26), Dan Imani (23), Avraham Haim Rahamim (29), and Orit Ozerov (28), all from Jerusalem, Nir Borochov (22) and Uri Felix (25) from Givat Ze’ev, Baruch Lerner-Naor (28) of Eli, Natanel Kochavi (31) of Kiryat Ata and Danit Dagan (25) of Tel-Aviv were murdered when an Islamic suicide bomber exploded himself at the Cafe Moment in the Rehavia neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem.
Mar 10, 2002 – St.-Sgt. Kobi Eichelboim (21) of Givatayim died Sunday afternoon from wounds suffered in the morning when a Muslim 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) and Alexei Kotman (29) of Kibbutz Beit Hashita, Lynne Livne (49) and Atara Livne (15) of Kibbutz Hanita and Lt. German Rozhkov 25 were the six Israelis killed when two Muslims opened fire from an ambush on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba near the northern border with Lebanon.
Mar 14, 2002 – St.-Sgt. Matan Biderman (21) of Carmiel, Sgt. Rotem Shani(19) of Hod Hasharon and St.-Sgt. Ala Hubeishi (21) of Julis were killed when their tank escorting a civilian convoy drove over a land mine exploded on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip.
Mar 17, 2002 – Noa Auerbach, 18, of Kfar Sava was killed and 16 people were injured when a Muslim 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 Muslims opened fire on them in the Jordan Valley.
Mar 20, 2002 – Sgt. Michael Altfiro(19) and St.-Sgt. Shimon Edri (20) of Pardes Hanna, Senior Warrant Officer Meir Fahima (40) and Bella Schneider (53) of Hadera, Alon Goldenberg (28) of Tel Aviv, Mogus Mahento (75) of Holon and Cpl. Aharon Revivo (19) of Afulawere were killed 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.
Mar 21, 2002 – Sgt.-Maj. Gad Shemesh (34) and his pregnant wife, Tzipi Shemesh (29) of Jerusalem and Yitzhak Cohen, 48, of Modi’in was one of three people killed and 86 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem.
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 25, 2002 – Haim Chiprot, 52, of Emmanuel, injured in the terrorist attack near the entrance to Emmanuel in Samaria on December 12, 2001, died of his wounds, bringing the death toll to 11.
Dateline: The total up to this point is 777 dead. This is precisely the same death toll Israel suffered during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War fought on three fronts against the combined armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The difference between that war and this “Oslo War” is that in the 1967 war, Israel gained the entire Sinai Desert, the entire “Judea and Samaria” and the entire Golan Heights. Thus far during this “Oslo War,” Israel has gained absolutely NOTHING!
Mar 27, 2002 – David Anichovitch, 70, Shimon Ben-Aroya (42), Andre Fried (47), Idit Fried (47), Amiram Hamami (44), Dvora Karim (73), Michael Karim (78), Marianne Lehmann Zaoui (77), and Furuk Na’imi (62) all from of Netanya, Eliahu Nakash (85) and Yulia Talmi (87) of Tel-Aviv, Lola Levkovitch (70) of Jerusalem, Ernest Weiss (80) and Eva Weiss (75) and of Petah Tikva, St.-Sgt. Sivan Vider (20) of Bekaot, Irit Rashel (45) of Moshav Herev La’et, Yehudit Korman (70) of Ramat Hasharon, George Yakobovitch (76) of Holon, Perla Hermella (79) a Jew from Sweden and Shula Abramovitch (info unavailable at this time) were killed in a massive Islamic suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday Seder. Hannah Rogen (90) of Netanya, Ze’ev Vider (50) of Beka’ot and Alter Britvich (88) of Netanya died 7 days later and and Frieda Britvich (86) of Netanya died 8 days later. Sarah Levy-Hoffman (89) of Tel-Aviv died on April 7. Anna Yakobovitch, 78, of Holon died on April 11. Clara Rosenberger (77) of Jerusalem died June 25, 2003
Mar 28, 2002 – David Gavish (50), Rachel Gavish (50) and their son Avraham Gavish, 25, all of Kedumim and Yitzhak Kanner (83) of Jerusalem were murdered in Elon Moreh, when an Arab-Muslim infiltrated the hilltop community near Shechem, burst into their home, and shot them.
Mar 29, 2002 – Michael Orlansky (70) of Tel-Aviv and Tuvia Wisner (79) of Petah Tikva were stabbed to death while on his way to the synagogue for morning prayers, when a Muslim infiltrated the Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip
Mar 29, 2002 – Lt. Boaz Pomerantz (22) of Kiryat Shmona and Roman Shliapstein (22) of Ma’ale Efraim were killed in the course of the IDF anti-terrorist action in Ramallah.
Mar 29, 2002 – Rachel Levy (17) and Haim Smadar (55) of Jerusalem were killed when a female Islamic suicide bomber blew herself up in the Jerusalem Kiryat Yovel supermarket
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 Muslims trying to cross into Israel to carry out a suicide attack.
Mar 31, 2002 – Dov Chernevroda (67), Shimon Koren (55), Gal Koren (15), Ran Koren (18), Ran Koren (18), Anat Ron (21), Ofer Ron (18), Ya’akov Shani (53), Moshe Levin (52), Danielle Manchell (22), Orly Ofir (16), Adi Shiran (17), and Daniel Carlos Wegman (50), all from Haifa of Haifa were killed in an Islamic suicide bombing at the Matza Restaurant in Haifa. The blast was so powerful that the restaurant roof blew off completely. Carlos Yerushalmi (52) of Karkur died 3 days later.
Apr 1, 2002 – Policeman Tomer Mordechai (19) of Tel-Aviv, was killed in Jerusalem, when an Islamic suicide bomber driving toward the city center blew himself up after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 3, 2002 – Maj. (res.) Moshe Gerstner (29) of Rishon Lezion was killed during an exchange of fire in Jenin (Operation Defensive Shield).
Apr 4, 2002 – Rachel Charhi (36) of Bat-Yam, died five days after being critically injured in a suicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv on March 30. 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 while attempting to arrest a wanted member of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
Apr 4, 2002 – Lt. Nissim Ben-David (22) of Ashdod, St.-Sgt. Gad Ezra (23) of Bat-Yam and Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Einan Sharabi (32) of Rehovot were killed during exchanges of fire in the Jenin refugee camp (Operation Defensive Shield).
Apr 5, 2002 – Sgt. Merom Fisher (19) of Moshav Avigdor, Sgt. Oded Kornfein (20) of Kibbutz Ha’on and – Sgt. Ro’i Tal (21) of Ma’alot were killed in an exchange of fire between IDF troops and Islamic gunmen in Jenin (Operation Defensive Shield).
Apr 6, 2002 – St.-Sgt. (res.) Nisan Avraham (26) of Lod was killed and five other soldiers were lightly injured when two Arab-Islamic gunmen opened fire and threw grenades at the entrance to Rafiah Yam in the Gaza Strip.
Apr 8, 2002 – St.-Sgt. Matanya Robinson (21) of Kibbutz Tirat Zvi and Sgt. Shmuel Weiss (19) of Kiryat Arba was killed by Islamic gunfire in the Jenin refugee camp
Apr 9, 2002 – Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Eyal Eliyahu Azouri (27) of Ramat Gan, Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Amit Busidan (22) of Bat Yam, 1st Sgt. (res.) Tiran Arazi (33) of Hadera, Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Ronen Alshochat (27) of Ramle, Capt. (res.) Ya’akov Azoulai (30) of Migdal Ha’emek, Lt. (res.) Dror Bar (28) of Kibbutz Einat, Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Amit Busidan (22) of Bat Yam, Maj. (res.) Oded Golomb (32) of Kibbutz Nir David, Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Menashe Hava (23) of Kfar Sava, 1st Sgt. (res.) Yoram Levy (33) of Elad, Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Shmuel Danny Meizlish (27) of Moshav Hemed, 1st Sgt. (res.) Avner Yaskov (34) of Be’er Sheva, Lt. (res.) Eyal Yoel (28) of Ramat Rachel, Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Eyal Zimmerman (22) of Ra’anana and St.-Sgt. Gedalyahu Malik (21) of Jerusalem were killed in action against Arab-Muslim fighters in the Jenin refugee camp.
Apr 10, 2002 – Avinoam Alfia (26) and Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Nir Danieli (24) of Kiryat Ata, Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Shlomi Ben Haim (27), Border Police Lance Cpl. Keren Franco (18), Prison Warr.Off. Shimshon Stelkol (33) and Sgt. Michael Weissman (21) of Kiryat Yam, Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Ze’ev Hanik (24) of Karmiel and Border Police Lance Cpl. Noa Shlomo (18) of Nahariya were killed in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #960 which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa.
Apr 12, 2002 – Lt. Dotan Nahtomi (22) of Kibbutz Tzuba, died of wounds sustained three days earlier during IDF operations in Dura. Border policeman St.-Sgt. David Smirnoff (22) of Ashdod, was killed when a Islamic gunman opened fire at the Erez crossing in the Gaza Strip. Nissan Cohen (57) of Jerusalem, Rivka Fink (75), Suheila Hushi (48) and Yelena Konrab (43) of Jerusalem, Ling Chang Mai (39) and Chai Siang Yang (32) both foreign workers from China were all killed by an Islamic female suicide bomber who detonated a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road next to the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market. Another 104 people were injured in the blast. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 20, 2002 – Border Police St.-Sgt. Uriel Bar Maimon (21) of Ashkelon was killed by a Islamic gunman in an attack on the IDF post at the Erez industrial zone in the Gaza strip. The Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
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 Shechem, to arrest known Hamas Muslims.
Apr 27, 2002 – Arik Becker (22), Katrina Greenberg (45), Ya’acov Katz (51) and Danielle Shefi (5) were murdered when Muslims dressed in IDF uniforms and combat gear cut through the settlement’s defensive perimeter fence and entered Adora, west of Hebron. The Arab-Muslims entered several homes, firing on people in their bedrooms.
May 3, 2002 – IDF officer Major Avihu Ya’akov (24) of Kfar Hasidim, was killed and two other soldiers injured in Shechem in a raid against a terror cell that was planning a suicide attack in Israel.
May 5, 2002 – Eliezer Korman (74) of Ramat Hasharon was one of 29 people killed in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder, on March 27.
May 7, 2002 – Yitzhak Bablar (57) and Esther Bablar (54) of Bat Yam, Rafael Haim (64), Pnina Hikri (60), Nawa Hinawi (51) and Shoshana Magmari (51) of Tel Aviv, Edna Cohen (61) and Sharouk Rassan (60) of Holon, Rahamim Kimhi (58), Nir Lovatin (31) and Israel Shikar (49) of Rishon Lezion, Avi Bayaz (26) of Nes Ziona, Malka Regina Boslan (62) of Jaffa, Dalia Masa (56) of Nahalat Yehuda and Anat Teremforush (36) of Ashdod were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge in a game club located on the 3rd floor of a building in Rishon Lezion, causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 12, 2002 – Nisan Dolinger (43) of Pe’at Sadeh in the southern Gaza Strip was shot and killed by a Muslim laborer.
May 20, 2002 – Yosef Haviv (70), Arkady Vieselman (39) and Victor Tatrinov (63) all of Netanya were murdered when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded section of Netanya’s open-air market.
May 22, 2002 – Elmar Dezhabrielov (16) and Gary Tauzniaski (65) of Rishon Lezion were victims of a Arab suicide bombing in the heart of the city.
May 24, 2002 – Oren Tzelnik (26) of Bat Yam, an IDF reservist, was killed on the first day of a two-day IDF anti-terrorist operation in Tulkarm.
May 27, 2002 – Ruth Peled (56) of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter Sinai Keinan, (14 months) of Petah Tikva were killed when a suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva.
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. In a separate incident, Yeshiva high school students Netanel Riachi (17) of Kochav Ya’akov, Avraham Siton (18) of Shilo and Gilad Stiglitz (14) of Yakir were murdered in Itamar, southeast of Shechem, when a Arab Islamic gunman infiltrated the community and opened fire on them.
Jun 5, 2002 – Zion Agmon (50), Cpl. Liron Avitan (19), Cpl. Dennis Bleuman (20), St.-Sgt. Eliran Buskila (21), St.-Sgt. Zvi Gelberd (20), Sgt. Violetta Hizgayev (20), St.-Sgt. Ganadi Issakov (21), Cpl. Vladimir Morari (19) and Sgt. Dotan Reisel (22) of Hadera; Cpl. Avraham Barzilai (19), Sgt. Sariel Katz (21) and Sgt. Yigal Nedipur (21) and St.-Sgt. David Stanislavksy (23) of Netanya; Adi Dahan (17) of Afula; Sgt. Sivan Wiener (19) of Holon (19) of Holon; Shimon Timsit (35) of Tel-Aviv were murdered 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
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 Muslims opened fire from an ambush.
Jun 8, 2002 – St.-Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Shalom Mordechai (35) of Nahariya, St.-Sgt. Eyal Sorek (23) of Carmei Tzur and his wife Yael (24) were killed when Muslims infiltrated the community of Carmei Tzur south of Bethlehem on Friday night.
Jun 11, 2002 – Hadar Hershkowitz (15) of Herzliya was killed and 15 others were wounded when an Islamic suicide bomber set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a shawarma restaurant in Herzliya.
June 15, 2002 – St.-Sgt. Alexei Gladkov (20) of Be’er Sheva and St.-Sgt. Haim Yehezkel (Hezki) Gutman (22) of Beit El were killed in a confrontation with Muslims near Alei Sinai and Dugit in the northern Gaza Strip.
Jun 18, 2002 – Galila Bugala (11), Boaz Aluf (54), Shani Avi-Zedek (15), Leah Baruch (59), Mendel Bereson (72), Rafael Berger (28), Michal Biazi (24), Tatiana Braslavsky (41), Dr. Moshe Gottlieb (70), Baruch Gruani (60), Orit Hayla (21), Helena Ivan (63), Gila Nekev (55), Shiri Nagari (21), Liat Yagen (24), Rahamim Zidkiyahu (51), Raisa Dikstein (67), all of Jerusalem, were killed in an Islamic bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. Another 74 Israelis were wounded.
June 19, 2002 – Gal Eisenman (5) of Ma’ale Adumim, St.-Sgt. Yosef Talbi (20) of Yehud, Tatiana Igelski (43) of Moldova, Hadassah Jungreis (20) of Migdal Haemek, Noa Alon (60) of Ofra and Gila Sara Kessler (19) of Eli, Shmuel Yerushalmi (17) of Shilo were murdered when an Arab suicide/homocide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem.
June 19, 2002 – Maj. Shlomi Cohen (26) of Rehovot and St.-Sgt. Yosef Talbi (20) of Yehud were killed in Kalkilya when Islamic gunmen opened fire while the soldiers were in pursuit of two Muslims inside a building.
June 20, 2002 – Avraham Eliahu Nehmad, 17, of Rishon died from injuries he received from the March 2, 2002 bombing (see above)
June 20, 2002 – Rachel Shabo, 40, her three sons, Neria (16), Avishai (5) and Zvika (13) and a neighbor, Yosef Twito (age not listed), all of Itamar were murdered when an Arab-Muslim entered their home in Itamar, south of Shechem, and opened fire.
Jun 22, 2002 – Lt. Anatoly Krasik, 22, of Petah Tikva, died of wounds sustained on June 15 in a confrontation with Muslims near Alei Sinai and Dugit in the northern Gaza Strip, in which two other soldiers were killed.
July 10, 2002 – Capt. Hagai (Haim) Lev, 24, of Jerusalem was killed by Islamic sniper fire while conducting a search for weapons smuggling tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
July 16, 2002 – Galila Ades (42), Yonatan Gamliel (16), Keren Kashani (20), Gal Shilon (32), Ilana Siton (35), Tiferet Sarah Shilon (9 months) and the infant son of Yehudit Weinberg, all of Emmanuel, Zilpa Kashi (65) of Givatayim and Lt. Elad Grenadier (21), of Haifa, a soldier who exchanged fire with the Arab Muslims but was killed. Yocheved Ben-Hanan, 21, of Emmanuel, died two days later. These casualties resulted from an Arab terrorist attack on Dan bus #189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel.
July 17, 2002 – Adrian Andres (30) of Romania, Boris Shamis (25) of Tel-Aviv were killed in a double suicide bombing on Neve Sha’anan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. Another victim Dmitri Pundikov (33) of Bat-Yam died on July 25th
July 25, 2002 – Rabbi Elimelech Shapira (43) of Peduel, was killed and another civilian injured in an Islamic shooting attack near the Samaria community of Alei Zahav, west of Ariel.
July 26, 2002 – Hannah Dikstein (42) of Psagot, her husband Rabbi Yosef Dikstein (45) and their son Shuva’el Zion (9) were killed in an Islamic ambush shooting attack south of Hebron. Two other children were injured.
July 26, 2002 – St.-Sgt. Elazar Liebowit (21) of Hebron was killed in a shooting attack south of Hebron.
July 30, 2002 – Mordechai Odesser (52) and his brother Shlomo Odesser (60) both of Tapuach in Samaria, were shot and killed when their truck came under fire in Judea and Samaria Arab village of Jama’in, near Ariel. The two were shot dead by Arabs hiding behind olive trees… similar to the same ones they accuse Israel of uprooting. NOW we know why those olive trees are so valued by the Arabs.
July 31, 2002 – Levina Shapira (53), David Diego Ladowski (29) and Dina Carter (37) of Jerusalem were murdered when a remote-controlled bomb detonated in the Frank Sinatra cafeteria on Jerusalem’s Hebrew University Mt. Scopus campus. American Jews also murdered include Marla Bennett (24) of San Diego, California, David Gritz (24) of Peru, Massachusetts, Benjamin Blutstein (25) of Susquehanna Township, Pennsylvania and Janis Ruth Coulter (36) from New York. Eighty-six others were injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 1, 2002 – Shani Ladani (27) of Moshav Olash was found shot in the head at point blank range, and bound morning west of the Arab town of Tulkarem. Shani was just another victim of the “peace process!”
Aug 4, 2002 – Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda Friedman (24) of Ramat Beit Shemesh, Sgt. Yifat Gavrieli (19), Sgt.-Maj. Roni Ghanem (28) of Maghar of Mitzpe Adi, Sgt. Omri Goldin (20) of Mitzpe Aviv, Marlene Menahem (22) of Moshav Safsufa were murdered by an Arab homocidal-suicidal terrorist who bombed the Egged bus carrying them from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. The blast blew off the roof of the bus, which then burst into flames, killing or wounding nearly everyone inside. Also murdered in that attack were two Philipinos and one Israeli Arab Druze. On Aug 10, 2002 Daphna Spruch (61) and Revital Barashi (30), both of Jerusalem and victims of the Aug. 4th attack, died from their injuries.
Aug 4, 2002 – Yekutiel Amitai (34) of Jerusalem was killed when a Muslim opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City. Also gunned down was an Arab, Nizal Awassat, 52, of Jerusalem
Avi Wolanski, 29, and his wife Avital (27) of Eli, were killed when Arab Muslims opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Shechem road near Eli in Samaria. Their car was found riddled with 10 Arab bullet holes.
Aug 10, 2002 – Yafit Herenstein (31) of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley, was murdered and her husband, Arno, seriously wounded when a Arab-Muslim infiltrated the moshav and opened fire outside their home.
Aug 20, 2002 – Staff-Sergeant Kevin Cohen (19) from Petah Tikva, was killed by a Muslim sniper in the Gaza Strip while on guard duty at the Yakinton outpost in Gush Katif. Hamas proudly claimed responsibility for his murder.
Sept 5, 2002 – 1st Lt. Malik Grifat (24) of Zarzir, was killed when an Arab- Muslim opened fire from a crowded school towards an IDF patrol near Nisanit in the northern Gaza Strip.
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.
Sept 18, 2002 – The charred body of David Buhbut (67) of Ma’ale Adumim was found near el-Azzariya, a Muslim village near Ma’ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, the victim of an Islamic killing.
Sept 18, 2002 – Yosef Ajami (36) of Jerusalem was killed when Muslims opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in Samaria.
Sept 18, 2002 – Police Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah (21) of Elyachin was murdered and three people were wounded in a suicide/homocide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 19, 2002 – Solomon Hoenig (79) and Yaffa Shemtov (49) of Tel Aviv, Yossi Mamistavlov (39) of Or Yehuda, Shoshana Siso (63) of Gan Yavneh, Ofer Zinger (29) of Moshav Pazael and Jonathan (Yoni) Jesner (19) of Glasgow, Scotland murdered when a suicide/homicadal Arab-Muslim detonated himself in Dan bus No. 4 on Allenby Street, opposite the Great Synagogue in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jonathan Jesner (19) of Glasgow, Scotland died on Sept 20. When he was declared “brain-dead,” Jesner’s parents gave permission for his organs to be donated. One of his kidneys was implanted into Yasmin Abu Ramila, a 7 year old Muslim.
Sept 23, 2002 – Shlomo Yitzhak Shapira (48) of Jerusalem was killed and three of his children wounded, one seriously, in a shooting attack near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron during the Sukkot festival.
Sept 26, 2002 – Capt. Harel Marmelstein (23) of Mevasseret Zion was killed while leading a search for wanted Muslims in Judea and Samaria village of Labed near Tulkarem.
Sept 30, 2002 – St.-Sgt. Ari Yehoshua Weiss (21) of Ra’anana, was killed when Islamic gunmen opened fire on an army position in the Shechem casbah.
Oct 9, 2002 – Oded Wolk (51) of Modi’in, who was critically wounded in an ambush shooting south of Hebron on October 8, died of his wounds the following day. Hamas claimed responsibility 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 boarda bus across from Bar-Ilan University.
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
October 21, 2002 – Osnat Abramov (16) of Holon, Indelou Ashati (54) and Cpl. Ilona Hanukayev (20) of Hadera, St.-Sgt. Liat Ben-Ami (20) of Haifa, Ofra Burger (56) of Netanya, Iris Lavi (68) of Hod Hasharon, Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Eliezer Moskovitch (40) of Petah Tikva, St.-Sgt. Nir Nahum (20) of Karmiel, St.-Sgt. Aiman Sharuf (20) from Ussfiyeh, Sergei Shavchuk (35) of Afula, Anat Shimshon (33) of Ra’anana, Cpl. Sharon Tubol (19) of Arad, Sgt. Esther Pesachov (19) from Givat Olga and Suad Jaber (23) of Taibe were murdered when their bus was blown up by an Arab terrorist driving an explosives-laden jeep near the Karkur junction. [Note: The last victim was an Arab-Israel and will not be counted as past of the total Jewish body count!]
Oct 27, 2002 – Sgt.-Maj. Amihud Hasid (32) of Tapuah, Maj.(res.) Tamir Masad (41) of Ben Shemen and Lt. Matan Zagron (22) of Itamar were killed in a suicide bombing at the Sonol gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria while trying to prevent the terrorist from detonating the bomb.
Oct 29, 2002 – Orna Eshel (53) of Hermesh, her daughter Linoy Saroussi (14) and friend Hadas Turgeman (14) [left photo] were shot dead by a Muslim who infiltrated the settlement north of Tulkarm in Samaria and entered their home.
Nov 4, 2002 – Mall security guard Julio Pedro Magram (51) of Kfar Sava and Gastón Perpiñal (15) of Ra’anana, both recent immigrants from Argentina, were killed when an Islamic suicide bomber detonated himself at a Kfar Sava shopping mall.
Nov 6, 2002 – Amos Sa’ada (52) of Rafiah Yam in the Gaza Strip and Assaf Tzfira (18) of B’dolah were shot to death by an Arab Muslim posing as a worker.
Nov 10, 2002 – Revital Ohayon(34) and her two sons, Matan (5) and Noam (4) of Kibbutz Metzer and two visitors to the Kibbutz, Tirza Damari (42) and Yitzhak Dori(44) both of Elyachin were gunned down by an Arab Muslim
Nov 15, 2002 – Yitzhak Buanish (46), Alexander Zwitman (26) and Alexander Zwitman (26) all of Kiryat Arba, Lt. Dan Cohen (22) and Col. Dror Weinberg (38) of Jerusalem, Border Police St.-Sgt. Yeshayahu Davidov (20) of Netanya, Sgt. Igor Drobitsky (20) of Nahariya, Border Police St.-Sgt. Netanel Machluf (19) of Hadera, St.-Sgt. David Marcus (20) of Ma’aleh Adumim, Border Police Sgt. Gad Rahamim (19) of Kiryat Malachi and Border Police Sgt. Tomer Nov (19) of Ashdod were the eight Jewish soldiers and three civilians from the Kiryat Arba emergency response team who were murdered when Muslims opened fire and threw grenades at a group of Jewish worshipers and their guards as they were walking home from Sabbath Eve prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs.
Nov 18, 2002 – Esther Galia, 48, of Kochav Hashahar, the mother of seven children, was shot and mortally wounded by an Arab terrorist who fired nine bullets into her car as she drove home from work in Jerusalem.
Nov 21, 2002 – Eleven people were murdered 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 Asaraf (13), Marina Bazarski (46), Yelena-Hadassah Ben-David (32), Kira Perlman (67) and her grandson Ilan Perlman (8), Sima Novak (56), Yafit Ravivo (13), Ella Sharshevsky (44) and her son Michael Sharshevsky and Dikla Zino (20). All were from Jerusalem.. the City of Peace! Also murdered was Varga Mirsa (25) a tourist from Romania.
Nov 22: IDF tracker Sgt.-Maj. Shigdaf (Shai) Garmai (30) of Lod, was killed Friday morning when an Israel Defense Forces Givati Brigade patrol near Tel Qateifa, in the Gaza Strip, came under Islamic 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.
Nov 28, 2002 – Brothers Dvir (14) and Noy Anter, 12 of Ariel and Albert (Avraham) de Havila (60) of Ra’anana and 10 Kenyans were murdered 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.
Nov 28, 2002 – Haim Amar (56) Ehud (Yehuda) Avitan (54), Mordechai Avraham (44), Ya’acov Lary (35), Shaul Zilberstein (36) of Upper Nazareth and David Peretz (48), all of Beit She’an and Shaul Zilberstein (36) of Upper Nazareth were killed and about 40 wounded when two Arab Muslims 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 – Sgt. Maor Kalfon (19) of Kiryat Yam and Cpl. Keren Ya’akobi (19) of Hadera were killed while on guard near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
Dec 20, 2002 – Rabbi Yitzhak Arama (40) of Netzer Hazani 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 Arab proudly claimed responsibility for the murder. He is survived by his wife Oshrat and their six children – Keren (15), Matitya (13), Malachi (11), Raaya (5), Shira (2) and Livnat (6 months).
Dec 27, 2002 – Zvi Zieman (18) of Reut, Gavriel Hoter (17) of Alonei Habashan, St.-Sgt. Noam Apter (23) and Private Yehuda Bamberger (20) both of Shilo were the four yeshiva students murdered in Otniel while working in the yeshiva kitchen, serving the Shabbat meal to some 100 students in the adjacent dining room. The two Islamic attackers came from the nearby Arab village of Dura.
