It is a long day of funerals for Gush Etzion, following yesterday\'s drive-by terrorist attack in which two women from Efrat were murdered. Esther Alwan, 20, was buried late this morning in the nearby cemetery in Kfar Etzion, while the funeral of Sarah Blaustein, 53, will depart for Kfar Etzion from Efrat this evening. The latter\'s husband Norman was lightly wounded in the attack, and her son Samuel Burg was seriously hurt by three gunshots in the back.

The Blaustein family immigrated to Israel from New York less than a year ago, and Sarah Blaustein\'s weekly schedule included prayer at Rachel\'s Tomb and Torah study at the Beit Medrash for Women. Esther Alwan was said to have a glittering future in her chosen field of education, and had served as a teacher during her year of National Service. She was eulogized by Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, who cried, \"We demand not vengeance, only justice!\" Communications Minister Ruby Rivlin, representing the government, said, \"When I am asked about the government policy, I must bite my tongue and say that we need patience, together with obstinate perseverance and uncompromising belief in our moral right to live here in our Land… There will never be surrender, but we will have vengeance on our enemies…\"

The Blaustein family has asked that the government not send a representative to the funeral this evening, until and unless the government changes its policy of restraint, which, they feel, is costing innocent Israeli lives almost every day.