Twenty-four wounded victims from yesterday's terrorist blast in Haifa are still hospitalized, including 13 in "moderate" condition and worse. Two people are listed in critical condition. The suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus filled with young boys and girls on their way home from school.
Identification of all 15 of the dead was completed this afternoon, and most of them were buried today. The victims:
Mark Takash, 54, from Haifa
St.-Sgt. Be'eri Oved, 21, from Rosh Pina
St.-Sgt. Eliyahu Laham, 22, from Haifa
Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa
Daniel Harush, 16, from Tzfat
Avigail Leitel, 14, from Haifa - an American citizen
Assaf Tzur, 17, from Haifa
Mordechai (Moti) Hershko and his only son, Tom, 16.
Meital Katav, 20, from Haifa
Tal Kerman, 17, from Haifa
Smadar Firstater, 17, from Haifa
Maryam Mustafa Atar, 27, from Haifa
Kamar Abu Hamed, 13, from Dalyat el-Carmel
Elizabetha Katzman, 17, from Haifa
Avigail Leitel, 14, from Haifa, was an American citizen who was born in New Hampshire...
Sgt. Be'eri Oved, the youngest of three children, was on his way to visit grandparents. He was about to complete his extended army career in an elite unit a few months from now...
Daniel Harush, 16, of Tzfat, wanted to be an IAF pilot and was on his way to pick up forms to this end; also the youngest of four children...
Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, and Avigail Leitel, 14, took part in the Children Teaching Children program of the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace at Givat Haviva, a program striving for pluralism, tolerance and coexistence...
The Haifa Municipality has assigned social workers to work with each of the affected families for the next several weeks.
Israeli security forces raided the home last night of the human bomb who murdered the 15 in Haifa. His father and two brothers were arrested. The murderer, Shadi Kawasme, was a student in the Arab Polytechnikum University in Hevron, which has produced dozens of suicide terrorist murderers over the years. A relative of his was Fahd Kawasme, who was mayor of Hevron 23 years ago during the famous Beit Hadassah terrorist attack (6 dead), was expelled to Jordan, and was killed there several years later.
Identification of all 15 of the dead was completed this afternoon, and most of them were buried today. The victims:
Mark Takash, 54, from Haifa
St.-Sgt. Be'eri Oved, 21, from Rosh Pina
St.-Sgt. Eliyahu Laham, 22, from Haifa
Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa
Daniel Harush, 16, from Tzfat
Avigail Leitel, 14, from Haifa - an American citizen
Assaf Tzur, 17, from Haifa
Mordechai (Moti) Hershko and his only son, Tom, 16.
Meital Katav, 20, from Haifa
Tal Kerman, 17, from Haifa
Smadar Firstater, 17, from Haifa
Maryam Mustafa Atar, 27, from Haifa
Kamar Abu Hamed, 13, from Dalyat el-Carmel
Elizabetha Katzman, 17, from Haifa
Avigail Leitel, 14, from Haifa, was an American citizen who was born in New Hampshire...
Sgt. Be'eri Oved, the youngest of three children, was on his way to visit grandparents. He was about to complete his extended army career in an elite unit a few months from now...
Daniel Harush, 16, of Tzfat, wanted to be an IAF pilot and was on his way to pick up forms to this end; also the youngest of four children...
Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, and Avigail Leitel, 14, took part in the Children Teaching Children program of the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace at Givat Haviva, a program striving for pluralism, tolerance and coexistence...
The Haifa Municipality has assigned social workers to work with each of the affected families for the next several weeks.
Israeli security forces raided the home last night of the human bomb who murdered the 15 in Haifa. His father and two brothers were arrested. The murderer, Shadi Kawasme, was a student in the Arab Polytechnikum University in Hevron, which has produced dozens of suicide terrorist murderers over the years. A relative of his was Fahd Kawasme, who was mayor of Hevron 23 years ago during the famous Beit Hadassah terrorist attack (6 dead), was expelled to Jordan, and was killed there several years later.