During a memorial ceremony yesterday in Hevron for 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass, terrorists fired from the Abu Sneineh hills towards the spot where they murdered Shalhevet only three weeks ago. At that minute, Shlomo Levinger and his wife Yisca, residents of Beit Hadassah, pulled up in front of the entrance to the Avraham Avinu neighborhood courtyard, where both Shlomo\'s parents (Rabbi Moshe and Miriam Levinger) and Yisca\'s parents (Yisrael and Miriam Ze\'ev) live. As Yisca bent over to take out her baby son, a shot was fired, hitting their car, exactly where she had been standing only seconds before. The bullet penetrated the car door and continued into an adjacent car, which was occupied by another child. The sniper shot twice more, with one of the bullets hitting a cement wall under a bench in the playground. Miraculously, no one was hit by the sniper fire.
\"Only ten centimeters separated between another funeral, Heaven forbid, and the happiness which we now feel,\" Shlomo later said. \"I was sure that after that, the army would go up and take over Abu Sneineh - but again, this did not happen. We gathered around afterwards and attempted to go up to the hills ourselves in a way that would not bother the soldiers but which would cause the Arabs of Abu Sneineh to run away - but the army did not let us.\"
\"Only ten centimeters separated between another funeral, Heaven forbid, and the happiness which we now feel,\" Shlomo later said. \"I was sure that after that, the army would go up and take over Abu Sneineh - but again, this did not happen. We gathered around afterwards and attempted to go up to the hills ourselves in a way that would not bother the soldiers but which would cause the Arabs of Abu Sneineh to run away - but the army did not let us.\"