Two of the three victims in the Netanya market bombing were buried this afternoon. Yosef Haviv, 70, and Arkadi Weiselman, 40, were laid to rest in the Netanya cemetery. The name of the third victim has not yet been cleared for publication. Twenty-one of the wounded remain in the hospital, including four in serious condition and a 6.5-year-old girl with shrapnel wounds all over her body. Weiselman, who was an employee at Netanya\'s Park Hotel, escaped injury during the Passover Seder massacre there; 29 people were killed at the hands of a Palestinian suicide killer. Yesterday, Weiselman was not as fortunate when he chose to shop at the Netanya market. The PFLP took credit for the murderous attack.
Erik Cohen, manager of the Park Hotel, said that Arkady was the chef of the hotel: \"We knew him very well, he worked here for ten years, and he even cooked for that infamous Passover Seder... We also knew his family - his wife and two daughters. Just this past Shavuot, we opened the hotel in a symbolic way - for a group from Arutz-7, actually, who came to help the hotel move forward; they said that they could have chosen another hotel, but they wanted to come specifically to the Park Hotel to make a statement of support - and Arkady cooked for these guests…\" Cohen said that the hotel is in the process of being revamped, \"but our main source of income is the ballroom [which was totally destroyed], and we don\'t yet know when it will be restored… In addition, government insurance covers only physical destruction, but so far is not recognizing our main loss, namely, that of the Passover week. We stayed open for a few months before the holiday, absorbing major losses together with the rest of the depressed tourism sector, in the knowledge that \'soon Pesach is coming\' - and then we lost that whole week… So it\'s rough.\"
Erik Cohen, manager of the Park Hotel, said that Arkady was the chef of the hotel: \"We knew him very well, he worked here for ten years, and he even cooked for that infamous Passover Seder... We also knew his family - his wife and two daughters. Just this past Shavuot, we opened the hotel in a symbolic way - for a group from Arutz-7, actually, who came to help the hotel move forward; they said that they could have chosen another hotel, but they wanted to come specifically to the Park Hotel to make a statement of support - and Arkady cooked for these guests…\" Cohen said that the hotel is in the process of being revamped, \"but our main source of income is the ballroom [which was totally destroyed], and we don\'t yet know when it will be restored… In addition, government insurance covers only physical destruction, but so far is not recognizing our main loss, namely, that of the Passover week. We stayed open for a few months before the holiday, absorbing major losses together with the rest of the depressed tourism sector, in the knowledge that \'soon Pesach is coming\' - and then we lost that whole week… So it\'s rough.\"