Yesterday's double terrorist attack in Tel Aviv was the 3rd-worst civilian attack, in terms of number of dead, that Israel has suffered in almost 25 years. In March 1978, Palestinian terrorists commandeered a bus on the Coastal Highway and shot wildly at passersby, killing 35. In Feb. 1996, 26 people were murdered when a suicide terrorist blew himself up on a #18 bus in Jerusalem, and on Mar. 27 of last year, an Arab murderer detonated himself at a Passover Seder meal in Netanya's Park Hotel, killing 29 people.
Fifteen of the 23 victims of yesterday's attack have been identified so far. Among them are 11 Israelis and four foreign workers - from Romania, Ghana, and Bulgaria. Two of the 111 wounded are in very critical condition, and five others - critical. The names of six have been released:
Shoshana Yaffe, 46, and Avi Kotzer, 43, of Bat Yam;
Victor Shovayev, 62, of Holon;
Amiram Zmorah, 55;
and Meir Chaim, 27, and Mazal Orkabi, 20, of Azor.
Fifteen of the 23 victims of yesterday's attack have been identified so far. Among them are 11 Israelis and four foreign workers - from Romania, Ghana, and Bulgaria. Two of the 111 wounded are in very critical condition, and five others - critical. The names of six have been released:
Shoshana Yaffe, 46, and Avi Kotzer, 43, of Bat Yam;
Victor Shovayev, 62, of Holon;
Amiram Zmorah, 55;
and Meir Chaim, 27, and Mazal Orkabi, 20, of Azor.