Avram Horowitz
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On August 19, 2003, a Hamas suicide bomber sent out by Hamas' Hebron cell disguised himself as a Haredi Jew and detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus traveling through Jerusalem's Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood.
The double-length bus was crowded with Orthodox Jewish children returning from a visit to the Western Wall. The huge explosion killed 7 children and 16 adults, and injured more than 130 people. The bomb was spiked with ball-bearings designed to increase injuries on the crowded bus. Hamas said the bomber was a 29-year-old mosque preacher from the city of Hebron.
Because so many of the dead were young children, the media dubbed it the "children's bus."
Fatalities
Avraham Bar-Or, 12, of Jerusalem. Binyamin Bergman, 15, of Jerusalem. Yaakov Binder, 50, of Jerusalem. Feiga Dushinski, 50, of Jerusalem. Miriam Eisenstein, 20, of Bnei Brak. Lilach Kardi, 22 (eight months pregnant), of Jerusalem. Menachem Leibel, 24, of Jerusalem. Elisheva Meshulami, 16, of Bnei Brak. Tehilla Nathanson, 3, of Zikhron Ya'akov. Chava Nechama Rechnitzer, 19, of Bnei Brak. Mordechai Reinitz, 49, of Netanya. Issachar Reinitz, 9, of Netanya. Maria Antonia Reslas, 39, of the Philippines. Liba Schwartz, 54, of Jerusalem. Hanoch Segal, 65, of Bnei Brak. Goldie Taubenfeld, 43, of New Square, New York. Shmuel Taubenfeld, 3 months, of New Square, New York. Rabbi Eliezer Weisfish, 42, of Jerusalem. Shmuel Wilner, 50, of Jerusalem. Shmuel Zargari, 11 months, of Jerusalem. Fruma Rahel Weitz, 73, of Jerusalem – died of her wounds on August 23. Mordechai Laufer, 27, of Netanya – died of his wounds on September 5. Tova Lev, 37, of Bnei-Brak – died of her wounds on September 12.
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