Palestinian suicide bomber blew up Jerusalem bus -- Partial List of Fatalities

 

DEBKAfile Intelligence

20 August 2003

On August 19, 2003, a Palestinian imam and teacher, member of Hamas from Hebron, blew up a packed Jerusalem bus carrying religious Israeli families home from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Nine of the 20 fatalities were children and babies, as were 40 of the 150 injured. Five were US citizens. This is a partial list of the victims. Some families have asked to withhold their names from publication.

From Jerusalem:

Menahem Liebel, 24

Shmuel Zargari, 11 months

Rabbi Eliezer Weisfisch, 42

Liba Schwartz, 53

Avraham Bar-Or, 12

Binyamin Bergman, 15

Shmuel Welner, 50

Yaacov Binder, 50

Elisheva Meshulami, 19.


From Bnei Brak:

Hanoch Segal, 65

Miryam Eisenstein, 20

Hava Rechnitzer, 19


From Netanya

Shalom Mordecai Reinitz, 49, his son Dov Yisaschar Reinitz, 9, from Kiryat Tsanz, Netanya,

Lilach Kardi, 22, Netanya,


From New York City

Goldie Taubenfeld, 43, mother of 13 and her 3-month old baby Shmuel, from New York