Terrorist victim Shimon Shiran came out his two-month long coma today. He was seriously injured in the March 31st bombing of the Matza restaurant in Haifa. Fifteen people were killed in that attack.
Another victim, however, remains in a coma. Three months after a suicide massacre in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in which ten people were murdered, including seven members of one extended family, 16-year-old Eliyahu Nehmad remains hospitalized and unconscious. His father, Ezra, says that he still has great hope that Eli will recover. \"We pray all the time - without prayer we are nothing - and with G-d\'s help, he will make it,\" Ezra told Arutz-7 today. Ezra Nehmad also lost his 15-year-old son Sha\'ul in the attack, as well as a brother, sister-in-law and their two children, as well as another niece and nephew. Eli is hospitalized in Mt. Scopus Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, and his father noted with sadness that no public figures had come to visit him.
Another victim, however, remains in a coma. Three months after a suicide massacre in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in which ten people were murdered, including seven members of one extended family, 16-year-old Eliyahu Nehmad remains hospitalized and unconscious. His father, Ezra, says that he still has great hope that Eli will recover. \"We pray all the time - without prayer we are nothing - and with G-d\'s help, he will make it,\" Ezra told Arutz-7 today. Ezra Nehmad also lost his 15-year-old son Sha\'ul in the attack, as well as a brother, sister-in-law and their two children, as well as another niece and nephew. Eli is hospitalized in Mt. Scopus Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, and his father noted with sadness that no public figures had come to visit him.