Two Israelis who were wounded in last night\'s shooting attack outside N\'vei Tzuf, northwest of Ramallah, are now recovering from their operations. Moshe B\'HaGaon and his son Chaim are listed in moderate condition in Tel HaShomer hospital; a third victim of the attack was only lightly hurt. Moshe worked as a press advisor to Ariel Sharon when the latter was Housing Minister and National Infrastructures Minister. Gil Shefer, brother-in-law of Moshe, told Arutz-7 today,
\"They were on the way home to N\'vei Tzuf, on the by-pass road around the village of Aboud, when they were shot. It happened around the same place in which Lt. Ya\'ir Nebentzal was murdered about two weeks ago. Moshe was hit by a bullet only 1.5 centimeters from his spine, and Chaim was hit in the arm; the bullet came out of his arm and was blocked by the bullet-proof vest he was wearing. The terrorists fired from very close, and Chaim said he could see them. There were several miracles here, including the fact that Moshe wisely hurried on instead of stopping...\"
Shefer continued, \"I would just like to note that the Nebentzal and B\'HaGaon families are very close - they were among the founding families of N\'vei Tzuf 22 years ago - and when Adina [Ya\'ir\'s mother], who was also wounded in that attack, was lying in the hospital, Moshe and his wife were here all the time, visiting and helping her and the family... Yesterday Adina was released, and now Moshe goes in, to the very same ward in the same hospital, from the same type of attack in the same place... It\'s too absurd and ironic to understand.\"
Five-month-old Yehuda Chaim (ben Bat-Sheva) Shoham of Shilo, who was hit by a large rock on Tuesday night, continues to be in very critical condition. More rocks were thrown by Arabs near Shilo at Israeli cars this morning; no one was hurt. Ariel (ben Lia) Yered, who suffered a blow to the head and the spine in an Arab mortar attack upon the Gush Katif community of Atzmona two months ago, is undergoing intense rehabilitation in the Alyn Children\'s Hospital in Jerusalem; his father Yossi told Arutz-7 today that he is suffering from severe disabilities, and \"we have a long way ahead of us, and there is no guarantee that he will come out of it OK. Thank G-d he is alive, we have passed the critical stages, but there remain problems that are liable to remain for a long while - that part is up to G-d, and we hope that it will work out... My wife is mostly in Jerusalem with Ariel, while I\'m home with the children, and of course we receive help from the community here...\"
\"They were on the way home to N\'vei Tzuf, on the by-pass road around the village of Aboud, when they were shot. It happened around the same place in which Lt. Ya\'ir Nebentzal was murdered about two weeks ago. Moshe was hit by a bullet only 1.5 centimeters from his spine, and Chaim was hit in the arm; the bullet came out of his arm and was blocked by the bullet-proof vest he was wearing. The terrorists fired from very close, and Chaim said he could see them. There were several miracles here, including the fact that Moshe wisely hurried on instead of stopping...\"
Shefer continued, \"I would just like to note that the Nebentzal and B\'HaGaon families are very close - they were among the founding families of N\'vei Tzuf 22 years ago - and when Adina [Ya\'ir\'s mother], who was also wounded in that attack, was lying in the hospital, Moshe and his wife were here all the time, visiting and helping her and the family... Yesterday Adina was released, and now Moshe goes in, to the very same ward in the same hospital, from the same type of attack in the same place... It\'s too absurd and ironic to understand.\"
Five-month-old Yehuda Chaim (ben Bat-Sheva) Shoham of Shilo, who was hit by a large rock on Tuesday night, continues to be in very critical condition. More rocks were thrown by Arabs near Shilo at Israeli cars this morning; no one was hurt. Ariel (ben Lia) Yered, who suffered a blow to the head and the spine in an Arab mortar attack upon the Gush Katif community of Atzmona two months ago, is undergoing intense rehabilitation in the Alyn Children\'s Hospital in Jerusalem; his father Yossi told Arutz-7 today that he is suffering from severe disabilities, and \"we have a long way ahead of us, and there is no guarantee that he will come out of it OK. Thank G-d he is alive, we have passed the critical stages, but there remain problems that are liable to remain for a long while - that part is up to G-d, and we hope that it will work out... My wife is mostly in Jerusalem with Ariel, while I\'m home with the children, and of course we receive help from the community here...\"