Mourners gathered to pay their final respects Thursday afternoon to the American-born woman who died Wednesday night form injuries sustained in a suicide bombing during the Second Intifada.
Chana Nachenberg was left in critical condition after an Arab suicide bomber attacked the Sbarro pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem in 2001.
Fifteen people were killed in the attack, and 140 more injured.
Nachenberg, then 31, was so seriously injured in the attack that she remained in a vegetative state for the next 22 years.
Her then-three-year-old daughter Sarah, was not physically harmed in the bombing.
Three weeks ago, Nachenberg's condition began to deteriorate, and she was transferred to Reuth Hospital in Tel Aviv. On Wednesday night, she succumbed to her decades-old injuries.
Three of the terrorists behind the attack were apprehended and jailed, only to be freed years later as part of the deal with Hamas to secure the release of Gilad Shalit.
The bomb maker, Abdullah Barghouti, is still imprisoned in Israel and is serving 67 life sentences. The woman who masterrninded and aided in carrying out the attack, Ahlam Ahmad al-Tamimi, and then reported on it for Arab media, was released from prison in the Shalit exchange and is a broadcaster on Jordanian media.