Ro'i Arbel, 28, father of five - including two-month-old triplets - was laid to rest this afternoon in Dolev, northwest of Jerusalem.
At about 7:15 PM Tuesday night, Palestinian terrorists waiting on the side of the road fired at an Israeli car with four passengers not far from the community of Talmon. Arbel was killed on the spot, the driver and another passenger suffered "moderate" injuries, and the fourth passenger went into a state of shock. The driver managed to continue on until Talmon, from where the wounded were evacuated to a Jerusalem hospital.
The terrorists are believed to be of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades, under the command of Yasser Arafat.
Ro'i leaves behind five children: two daughters Ohr (meaning Light, age 5) and Hodaya (Thanks, 3) and the triplets - two girls and a boy. The boy remains in a neonatal unit, and has not yet been circumcised and is therefore not named.
Ro'i's funeral procession began in the community synagogue of Talmon, where he lived with his wife Hagit and their five children, and continued to nearby Dolev. The Arbel family moved only six months ago from a caravan (mobile home without wheels) into its permanent home in Talmon. His widow Hagit eulogized him, saying that their baby son will be named "in accordance with the name that you chose before you died." "Whatever I have in life is in your merit," she said, and concluded, "We will continue to keep up our lives as they were with you."
Ro'i grew up in the Shomron town of Kedumim, studied at the yeshiva high school in Karnei Shomron, and served as an officer in the Golani Brigade in Lebanon. Three of his classmates were killed in Lebanon, including his good friend Yeshai Shechter in 1996. After completing military service, Ro'i studied electrical engineering in Tel Aviv University, and was employed by Motorola in Herzliya.
Friends and relatives arrived in the Arbel home last night, trying to comfort Hagit and expressing their shock at the loss. Friends said that he was "just a fantastic person and a true friend" and someone who "always helped people."
Arutz-7's Haggai Seri-Levy reports that IDF Intelligence Chief Gen. Ze'evi-Farkash said yesterday that "anarchy and chaos" reign in the Palestinian Authority. The General told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Abu Ala, the PA's "Prime Minister," has given up and is not functioning. "Arafat is everything in the PA, and he is employing a policy of foot-dragging, without fighting terror and continuing to fund the Al-Aksa Brigades."
At about 7:15 PM Tuesday night, Palestinian terrorists waiting on the side of the road fired at an Israeli car with four passengers not far from the community of Talmon. Arbel was killed on the spot, the driver and another passenger suffered "moderate" injuries, and the fourth passenger went into a state of shock. The driver managed to continue on until Talmon, from where the wounded were evacuated to a Jerusalem hospital.
The terrorists are believed to be of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades, under the command of Yasser Arafat.
Ro'i leaves behind five children: two daughters Ohr (meaning Light, age 5) and Hodaya (Thanks, 3) and the triplets - two girls and a boy. The boy remains in a neonatal unit, and has not yet been circumcised and is therefore not named.
Ro'i's funeral procession began in the community synagogue of Talmon, where he lived with his wife Hagit and their five children, and continued to nearby Dolev. The Arbel family moved only six months ago from a caravan (mobile home without wheels) into its permanent home in Talmon. His widow Hagit eulogized him, saying that their baby son will be named "in accordance with the name that you chose before you died." "Whatever I have in life is in your merit," she said, and concluded, "We will continue to keep up our lives as they were with you."
Ro'i grew up in the Shomron town of Kedumim, studied at the yeshiva high school in Karnei Shomron, and served as an officer in the Golani Brigade in Lebanon. Three of his classmates were killed in Lebanon, including his good friend Yeshai Shechter in 1996. After completing military service, Ro'i studied electrical engineering in Tel Aviv University, and was employed by Motorola in Herzliya.
Friends and relatives arrived in the Arbel home last night, trying to comfort Hagit and expressing their shock at the loss. Friends said that he was "just a fantastic person and a true friend" and someone who "always helped people."
Arutz-7's Haggai Seri-Levy reports that IDF Intelligence Chief Gen. Ze'evi-Farkash said yesterday that "anarchy and chaos" reign in the Palestinian Authority. The General told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Abu Ala, the PA's "Prime Minister," has given up and is not functioning. "Arafat is everything in the PA, and he is employing a policy of foot-dragging, without fighting terror and continuing to fund the Al-Aksa Brigades."