Year: 1929
August 23, 1929
Hebron Massacre:
Arab rioters killed 67 Jews in Hebron . Many of the dead were dismembered. Many incidents of rape were reported. Numerous homes were burned. The remaining Jewish community of Hebron fled to Jerusalem .
1936
April 19, 1936
Jaffa Massacre:
Arab rioters attacked Jaffa and killed 16 Jews.
1972
Sept 5, 1972
Munich Massacre:
Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes and one German policeman in a dormitory of the Munich Olympic Games.
1974
May 15, 1974
Maalot Massacre:
22 children and several adults were killed (66 children were wounded) in the Maalot Massacre, perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
1979
April 22, 1979
Dani Haran
Eliyahu Shahar
Four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists infiltrated Israel from Lebanon and killed Dani Haran, his two daughters, and policeman Eliyahu Shahar.
1986
April 17, 1986
Nizar al-Hindawi fails in his attempt to smuggle a semtex bomb, carried by his five month pregnant fiancée Ann-Marie Doreen Murphy, onto a passenger airliner traveling from London to Tel Aviv.
August 3, 1986
Yaron Chen, a Tsahal soldier
Yaron was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists while hitch-hiking back home. His body was later found in the burnt truck.
1993
Sept 24, 1993
Yigal Vaknin, of Basra
Yigal was stabbed to death in an orchard near the trailer home where he lived near the village of Basra . A squad of the HAMAS's Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 9, 1993
Dror Forer
Aran Bachar
Dror and Aran were killed by terrorists in Wadi Kelt in the Judean Desert. The Popular Front and the Islamic Jihad 'Al-Aqsa Squads' each publicly claimed responsibility.
Oct 24, 1993
Two IDF soldiers;
Ehud Rot, Staff Sgt. (res.), age 35
Sgt. Ilan Levi, age 23
Ehud and Ilan were killed by a HAMAS Iz a-Din al Kassam squad. The two entered a Subaru with Israeli license plates outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, whose passengers were apparently terrorists disguised as Israelis. Following a brief struggle, the soldiers were shot at close range and killed. Hamas publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 29, 1993
Chaim Mizrahi, resident of Beit-El
Chaim was kidnapped by three terrorists from a poultry farm near Ramallah. He was killed and his body burned. Three Fatah members were convicted of the murder on July 27, 1994.
Nov 7, 1993
Efraim Ayubi of Kfar Darom
Efraim was working as Rabbi Chaim Druckman's personal driver when he was shot to death by terrorists near Hebron . HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility for the murder.
Nov 9, 1993 |
Salman 'Id el-Hawashla, age 38,
Salman, an Israeli Bedouin of the Abu Rekaik tribe, driving a car with Israeli plates, was killed by three armed men driving a truck hijacked from the Gaza municipality, in a deliberate head-on collision.
Nov 17, 1993
Sgt. 1st Cl. Chaim Darina, age 37
Chaim was stabbed by a Gazan terrorist while seated at the cafeteria at the Nahal Oz road block at the entrance to the Gaza Strip. The perpetrator was apprehended. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the murder.
Dec 1, 1993
Shalva Ozana, age 23
Yitzhak Weinstock, age 19
Shalva and Yitzak were shot to death by terrorists from a moving vehicle, while parked on the side of the road to Ramallah because of engine trouble. Weinstock died of his wounds the following morning. Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it was carried out in retaliation for the killing by Israeli forces of Imad Akel, a wanted HAMAS leader in Gaza .
Dec 5, 1993
David Mashrati
David, a reserve soldier, was shot and killed by a terrorist attempting to board a bus on route 641 at the Holon junction. The Islamic Jihad Shekaki group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 6, 1993
Mordechai Lapid
Shalom Lapid, age 19, (Mordechai’s son)
Mordechai and his son Shalom (Peace) were shot to death by terrorists near Hebron . HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 22, 1993
Eliahu Levin
Meir Mendelovitch
Eliahu and Meir were killed by shots fired at their car from a passing vehicle in the Ramallah area. HAMAS claimed responsibility.
Dec 23, 1993
Anatoly Kolisnikov, of Ashdod
Anatoly, employed as a relief watchman at a construction site in Ashdod , was stabbed to death while on duty.
Dec 24, 1993
Lieut.Col. Meir Mintz, Commander of the IDF Special Forces in the Gaza area. Meir was shot and killed by terrorists in an ambush on his jeep at the T-junction in Gaza . The HAMAS Iz a-Din al Kassam squads publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 31, 1993
Chaim Weizman
David Bizi
David and Chaim were found killed in a Ramle apartment. ID cards of two Gaza residents were found in the apartment, together with a leaflet of the Popular Front 'Red Eagle' group, claiming responsibility for the murder.
1994
Jan 12, 1994
Moshe Becker, of Rishon Le-Zion
Moshe was stabbed to death by three Palestinian employees while working in his orchard. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the murder.
Jan 14, 1994
Grigory Ivanov
Grigory was stabbed to death by a terrorist in the industrial zone at the Erez junction, near the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 9, 1994
Ilan Sudri
Taxi driver, Ilan was kidnapped and killed while returning home from work. The Islamic Jihad Shekaki group sent a message to the news agencies claiming responsibility for the murder.
Feb 10, 1994
Naftali Sahar
Naftali, a citrus grower, was killed by blows to his head. His body was found in his orchard near Kibbutz Na'an.
Feb 13, 1994
Noam Cohen, age 28
Noam, a member of the General Security Service, was shot and killed in an ambush on his car. Two of his colleagues who were also in the vehicle suffered moderate injuries. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 17, 1994
Yuval Golan
Yuval was stabbed on December 29, 1993 by a terrorist near Adarim in the Hebron area, he died of his wounds on Feb 29, 1994.
Feb 19, 1994
Zipora Sasson, of Ariel
Zipora, five months pregnant, was killed on the trans-Samaria highway in an ambush by shots fired at her car. The terrorists were members of HAMAS.
Feb 25, 1994
Sam Eisenstadt, age 80
Sam was assaulted with an axe while walking in the center of Kfar Saba. Sam died of his wounds shortly afterwards.
March 23, 1994
Victor Lashchiver
Victor, employed as a guard at the Income Tax offices in East Jerusalem , was shot and killed near Damascus Gate on his way to work. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the attack.
March 29, 1994
Yitzhak Rothenberg, age 70, of Petah Tikva
Yitzhak was attacked on a construction site by two residents of Khan Yunis by axe blows to the head. He died several days later of his wounds. The murderers, apprehended the next day, stated that they carried out the attack in order to clear themselves of suspected collaboration with the Israeli authorities.
March 31, 1994
Yosef Zandani, age 28, of Bnei Ayish
Yosef was found killed in his apartment near Gedera. Near the body was a leaflet of the DFLP "Red Star", explaining that the murder was carried out in revenge for the shooting of one of its members by an Israeli citizen. The Israeli acted in self-defense.
April 6, 1994
First documented car bombing in Israel :
Seven people were killed in a car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims:
Asher Attia, age 48, of Afula (bus driver)
Vered Mordechai, age 13, of Afula
Maya Elharar, age 17, of Afula
Ilana Schreiber, age 45, a teacher from Kibbutz Nir David
Meirav Ben-Moshe, age 16, of Afula
Ayala Vahaba, age 40, a teacher from Afula
Fadiya Shalabi, age 25, of Iksal
Ahuva Cohen Onalla, age 37, wounded in the attack, died of her wounds on April 25.
April 7, 1994
Yishai Gadassi, age 32, of Kvutzat Yavne
Yishai was shot and killed at a hitchhiking post at the Ashdod junction by a member of HAMAS. The terrorist was killed by bystanders at the scene.
April 13, 1994
Rahamim Mazgauker, age 34, of Hadera
David Moyal, age 26 of Ramat Gan , an Egged mechanic
Daga Perda, age 44, immigrated from Ethiopia in 1991
Bilha Butin, age 49, of Hadera
Sgt. Ari Perlmutter, age 19, of Ir Ovot in the Arava
All were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
April 21, 1994
Shahar Simani , age 20, of Ashkelon
The body of officer cadet Simani, was found stabbed to death near the roadside at the village of Beit Hanina , north of Jerusalem . He had been kidnapped while hitchhiking in the south.
May 17, 1994
Rafael Yairi (Klumfenbert), age 36, of Kiryat Arba
Margalit Ruth Shohat, age 48, of Ma'ale Levona
Rafael and Margalit were killed when their car was fired upon by by terrorists in a passing car near Beit Haggai, south of Hebron.
May 20, 1994
Staff Sgt. Moshe Bukra, age 30
Cpl. Erez Ben-Baruch, age 24
Moshe and Erez were shot dead by HAMAS terrorists at a roadblock one kilometer south of the Erez checkpoint in the Gaza Strip.
July 7, 1994
Sarit Prigal, age 17
Sarit was shot to death when terrorists opened fire from a passing car near the entrance to Kiryat Arba.
July 7, 1994
Arye Frankenthal, age 20, of Moshav Gimzo near Lod.
Arye had left his base in the south the previous day, his body was found stabbed and shot near the Arab village of Kafr Akab, near Ramallah.
July 19, 1994
Lt. Guy Ovadia, age 23, of Kibbutz Yotvata.
Guy was fatally wounded in an ambush near Rafiah. HAMAS took responsibility for the attack, saying it was "a response to the massacre at the Erez checkpoint".
July 23, 1994
Two Palestinian terrorists stabbed an American woman in the Old City of Jerusalem
July 25, 1994
Sgt.-Maj. Jacques Attias, age 24
Jacques, working as a border policeman, died of his wounds after being shot by Palestinian policemen during the riots at Erez checkpoint on July 17.
July 26, 1994
A car bomb exploded at the Israel Embassy in London, wounding 14 people.
Aug 2, 1994
Yoram Sakuri, age 30, of Kiryat Netafim in Samaria
Yoram died of stab wounds suffered when a terrorist broke into his home on July 1st.
Aug 14, 1994
Ron Soval, age 18, of Lehavim, north of Beersheba
Ron was shot to death in an ambush near Kissufim junction in the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 26, 1994
Shlomo Kapach, age 22, of Bat Yam
Gil Revah, age 21, of Bat Yam
Shlomo and Gil, both elevator technicians, were killed at a Ramle building site. Israel has requested the extradition of the suspected killers from the Palestinian Authority.
Sept 4, 1994
Sgt. Victor Shichman, age 24
Victor was killed at the Morag junction in the southern Gaza Strip while on patrol, from shots fired from a vehicle bearing Palestinian license plates.
Sept 1994
Natasha Ivanov, age 32, of Ashdod
Natasha was strangled to death. In March 2001, a Palestinian arrested for being in Israel illegally, admitted to carrying out the murder in order to gain acceptance into a terrorist organization.
Oct 9, 1994
Ma'ayan Levy, age 19, of Zayit
Samir Mugrabi, age 35, of Kafr Aka
Ma'ayan, an off-duty soldier and Samir, a civilian, were killed in a terrorist attack in the Nahalat Shiva section of downtown Jerusalem . HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 14, 1994
Cpl. Nahshon Wachsman, age 20
After being abducted by HAMAS, Nahshon was killed by his captors.
Oct 14, 1994
Capt. Nir Poraz, age 23
Nir was killed in the course of the unsuccessful IDF rescue operation to obtain his release.
Oct 19, 1994
21 Israelis and one Dutch national were killed in a suicide bombing attack on the No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in Tel-Aviv,
The victims:
Haviv Tishbi, age 54, of Tel Aviv
Moshe Gardinger, age 83, of Tel Aviv
Pnina Rapaport, age 74, of Tel Aviv
Galit Rosen, age 23, of Holon
Zippora Ariel, age 64, of Tel Aviv
David Lida, age 74, of Tel Aviv
Puah Yedgar, age 56, of Givatayim
Dalia Ashkenazi, age 62, of Tel
Aviv Esther Sharon, age 21, of Lod
Ofra Ben-Naim, age 33, of Lod
Tamar Karlibach-Sapir, age 24, of Moshav Zafaria
Shira Meroz-Kot, age 20, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita
Miriam Adaf, age 54, of Sderot
Anat Rosen, age 21, of Ra'anana
Salah Ovadia, age 52, of Holon
Eliahu Wasserman, age 66, of Bat Yam
Alexandra Sapirstein, age 55, of Holon
Dr. Pierre Atlas, age 56, of Kiryat Ono
Ella Volkov, age 21, of Safed
Ayelet Langer-Alkobi, age 26, of Kibbutz Yiron
Kochava Biton, age 59, of Tel Aviv
Reinier Verbiest, age 25, of the Netherlands .
Nov 11, 1994
Capt. Yehazkel Sapir, age 36, of Kfar Sava
Lt. Yotam Rahat, age 31, of Tel-Aviv
Capt. Elad Dror, age 24, of Kibbutz Nachson
Yehazkel, Yotam, and Elad were killed at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip when a Palestinian riding a bicycle detonated explosives strapped to his body. Islamic Jihad said it carried out the attack to avenge the car bomb killing of Islamic Jihad leader Hani Abed on Nov 2
Nov 19, 1994
Sgt.-Maj. Gil Dadon, age 26, of Bat Yam
Gil was killed at the army post at Netzarim junction by shots fired from a passing car. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 27, 1994
Rabbi Amiran Olami, age 34, of Otniel
Rabbi Amiran was killed near Beit Hagai 10 kms south of Hebron by shots fired from a passing car.
Nov 30, 1994
Sgt. Liat Gabai, age 19, of Afula,
Liat was axed to death in the center of Afula.
1995
Jan 6, 1995
Ofra Felix, age 20, of Beit El,
Ofra, a university student, killed when terrorists opened fire on her car north of Beit El.
Jan 22, 1995
Twenty soldiers and one civilian were killed when two consecutive bombs exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims:
Lt. David Ben-Zino, age 20, of Ashdod
Lt. Adi Rosen, age 20, of Moshav Bitzaron
Lt. Yuval Tuvya, age 22, of Jerusalem
Sgt.-Maj. Anan Kadur, age 24, of Daliat al-Carmel
Staff-Sgt. Damian Rosovski, age 20, of Kadima
Staff-Sgt. Yehiel Sharvit, age 21, of Haifa
Staff-Sgt. Yaron Blum, age 20, of Jerusalem
Sgt. Maya Kopstein, age 19, of Jerusalem
Sgt. Daniel Tzikuashvili, age 19, of Jerusalem
Sgt. Avi Salto, age 19, of Rishon Lezion
Sgt. Rafael Mizrahi, age 19, of Ramat Gan
Sgt. Eran Gueta, age 20, of Ashkelon
Cpl. Soli Mizrahi, age 18, of Ramat Ramat Gan
Cpl. David Hasson, age 18, of Ashkelon
Cpl. Amir Hirschenson, age 18, of Jerusalem
Cpl. Gilad Gaon, age 18, of Herzliya
Cpl. Ilie Dagan, age 18, of Kochav Yair
Cpl. Eitan Peretz, age 18, of Nahariya
Lt. Eyal Levy, age 20, of Ashdod
Cpl. Yaniv Weiser, age 18, of Givatayim
Shabtai Mahpud, age 34, of Moshav Tnuvot - civilian
Feb 6, 1995
Yevgeny Gromov, age 32, of Ashkelon
While working as a security guard, Yevgeny was killed when terrorists opened fire from a passing car on the Gaza bypass road between Jabalya and Gaza City as he was escorting a gasoline truck to a Gaza Strip filling station.
Feb 13, 1995
Rafael Cohen, age 35, of Jerusalem
Rafael, a taxi driver, was fatally stabbed on the Jerusalem-Ma'aleh Adumim road.
March 19, 1995
Nahum Hoss, age 32, of Hebron
Yehuda Fartush, age 41, of Kiryat Arba
Nahum and Yehuda were killed when terrorists fired on an Egged bus near the entrance to Hebron .
March 29, 1995
Police Insp. Nitzan Cohen, age 22, of Jerusalem
Sgt.-Maj. Jamal Suwitat, age unknown, of Makr village
in Western Galilee Nitzan and Jamal were killed when a Palestinian driver rammed his truck into their jeep in a convoy east of the Netzarim junction in Gaza .
April 9, 1995
Seven Israeli soldiers and one American civilian were killed when a bus was hit by an explosives-laden van near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims:
Staff-Sgt. Yuval Regev, age 20, of Holon
Staff-Sgt. Meir Scheinwald, age 20, of Safed
Sgt. Itai Diener, age 19, of Rishon Lezion;
Sgt. Zvi Narbat, age 19, of Rishon Lezion
Sgt. Netta Sufrin, age 20, of Rishon Lezion
Cpl. Tal Nir, age 19, of Kibbutz Miflasim
Sgt. Avraham Arditi, age 19, of Jerusalem
Alisa Flatow, age 20, of the United States - civilian
April 13, 1995
A Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up at the Hadera Central Bus Station, killing 5 and injuring 30.
Jul 18, 1995
Ohad Bachrach, age 18, of Beit El
Ori Shahor, age 20, of Ra'anana
Ohad and Ori were killed while hiking in Wadi Kelt.
Jul 24, 1995
Moshe Shkedi, age 75, of Ramat Gan
Rahel Tamari, age 65, of Tel Aviv
Zviya Cohen, age 62, of Tel Aviv
Zahava Oren, age 60, of Tel Aviv
Nehama Lubowitz, age 61, of Tel Aviv
Mordechai Tovia, age 37, of Tel Aviv
All were killed in a suicide bombing on a bus in Ramat Gan .
Aug 21, 1995
Rivka Cohen, age 26, of Jerusalem
Hannah Naeh, age 56, of Jerusalem
Joan Davenney, age 46, of Connecticut
Noam Eisenman, Police Chief Superintendent, age 35,
of Jerusalem All were killed in a suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus.
Yona Peter Malina, age 38,
Yona was severely wounded from the Aug 21st bombing, he remained paralyzed from the neck down and attached to a respirator for the next ten years. He died on May 30, 2005.
Sept 5, 1995
Daniel Frei, age 28, of Ma'aleh Michmash
Daniel was stabbed to death when a terrorist broke into his home at night.
1996
Jan 16, 1996
Sgt. Yaniv Shimel, age unknown, of Jerusalem
Major Oz Tibon, age unknown, of Jerusalem
Yaniv and Oz were killed when terrorists fired on their car on the Hebron-Jerusalem road.
Jan 30,1996
Staff Sgt. Ehud Tal, age 21, of Kibbutz Maoz Haim
Ehud was stabbed to death at the liaison office in an army camp south of Jenin.
Feb 25, 1996
Twenty six people were killed in a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem , (17 civilians and 9 soldiers).
The civilians killed;
Daniel Biton, age 42, of Jerusalem
Yitzhak Elbaz, age 57, of Jerusalem
Boris Sharpolinsky, age 64, of Jerusalem
Semion Trakashvili, age 60, of Jerusalem
Yitzhak Yakhnis, age 54, of Jerusalem
Peretz Gantz, age 61, of Jerusalem
Anatoly Kushnirov, age 36, of Jerusalem
Jana Kushnirov, age 37, of Jerusalem
Masuda Amar, age 59, of Jerusalem
Swietlana Gelezniak, age 32, of Jerusalem
Celine Zaguri, age 19, of Jerusalem
Navon Shabo, age 22, of Bnei Brak
Michael Yerigin, age 16, of Kibbutz Maabarot
Matthew Eisenfeld, age 25, of the United States
Sara Duker, age 23, of the United States .
Wael Kawasmeh, age 23, of East Jerusalem
Ira Yitzhak Weinstein, age 53, of Maaleh Adumim
The soldiers killed:
Sgt. Yonatan Barnea, age 20, of Jerusalem
St-Sgt. Gavriel Krauss, age 24, of Jerusalem
St.-Sgt. Gadi Shiloni, age 22, of Jerusalem
Cpl. Moshe Reuven, age 19, of Jerusalem
St.-Sgt. Maj. (res.) Arye Barashi, age 39, of Jerusalem
Cpl. Iliya Nimotin, age 19, of Jerusalem
Cpl. Merav Nahum, age 19, of Jerusalem
Sgt. Sharon Hanuka, age 19, of Jerusalem
Arik Gaby, age 16 (student in pre-army boarding school)
of Jerusalem. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 1996
Sgt. Hofit Ayyash, age 20, of Ashdod
Hofit was killed in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber at a hitchhiking post outside Ashkelon . HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 26, 1996
Flora Yehiel, age 28, of Kiryat Ata
Flora was killed when a car was driven into a bus stop at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem .
March 3, 1996
In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem , 19 were killed (16 civilians and 3 soldiers).
The civilians killed:
Maya Birkan, age 59, of Jerusalem
Naima Zargary, age 66, of Jerusalem
Gavriel Shamashvili, age 43, of Jerusalem
Shemtov Sheikh, age 63, of Jerusalem
Anna Shingeloff, age 36, of Jerusalem
Raya Daushvili, age 55, of Jerusalem
George Yonan, age 38, of Jerusalem
Sarina Angel, age 45, of Beit Jalla
Gidi Taspanish, age 23, a tourist from Ethiopia
Valerian Krasyon, age 44, a tourist from Romania
Dominic Lunca, age 29, Romanian worker
Daniel Patenka, age 33, Romanian worker
Marian Grefan, age 40, Romanian worker
Mirze Gifa, age 39, Romanian worker
Dimitru Kokarascu, age 43, Romanian worker
Imar Ambrose, age 51, of Romania , died on March 9.
The soldiers killed:
Sgt. Yoni Levy, age 21, of Jerusalem
Sgt. Haim Amedi, age 19, of Jerusalem
Senior NCO Uzi Cohen, age 54, border policeman of Jerusalem .
March 4, 1996
Outside Dizengoff Center in Tel-Aviv, a suicide bomber detonated a 20-kilogram nail bomb, killing 13 (12 civilians and 1 soldier):
Bat-Hen Shahak, age 15, of Tel Mond
Hadas Dror, age 15, of Tel Mond
Kobi Zaharon, age 13, of Tel Aviv
Inbar Atiya, age 21, of Ramat-Efal
Dan Tversky, age 58, of Tel Aviv
Dana Gutman, age 14, of Moshav Mishmeret
Yovav Levy, age 13, of Tel Aviv
Leah Mizrahi, age 60, of Tel Aviv
Tali Gordon, age 24, of Givatayim
Rahel Sela, age 82, of Tel Aviv
Sylvia Bernstein, age age 73, of Hod Hasharon
Gail Belkin, age 48, of Herzliya
St.-Sgt. Assaf Wachs, age 21, of Holon .
May 14, 1996
David Reuven Boim, age 17
David, a yeshiva high school student in Beit El, was killed when terrorists fired at students at a hitchhiking post at Beil El, near Ramallah.
June 9, 1996
Yaron Unger, age 26, of Kiryat Arba
Efrat Unger, age 25, of Kiryat Arba,
Yaron and Efrat were killed when terrorists fired on their car near Beit Shemesh.
June 16, 1996
First-Sgt. Meir Alush, age 40
Meir, an off-duty policeman, was shot and killed in a toy store in the village of Bidiya .
June 26, 1996
Staff Sgt. (Res.) Asher Berdugo, age 22, of Kiryat Bialik
Sgt. Ashraf Shibli, age 20, of Shibli
Cpl. (Res.) Ya'acov Turgeman, age unknown, of Rishon Lezion.
Asher, Ashraf, and Ya'acov, were killed in an ambush along the Jordan River north of Jericho by terrorists who infiltrated from Jordan .
July 26, 1996
Uri Munk, age 53, of Moshav Mevo Betar
Rachel Munk, age 24, of Moshav Mevo Betar, (Munk’s daughter-in-law) .
Uri and Rachel were killed in a drive-by shooting attack near Beit Shemesh.
Ze'ev Munk, age 30, of Moshav Mevo Betar, (Rachel's husband) was critically wounded and died in the hospital the following week.
Dec 11, 1996
Etta Tzur, 48,
Ephraim Tzur, 12 (Etta’s son)
Etta and Ephraim were killed when their car was shot at by terrorists near Surda, west of Beit El.
1997
March 21, 1997
Michal Avrahami, age 32
Yael Gilad, age 32
Anat Winter-Rosen, age 32
Michael, Yael, and Anat were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on the terrace of a Tel Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded.
April 10, 1997
IDF Staff-Sgt. Sharon Edri
Sharon ’s body missing for seven months, was found buried near the West Bank village of Kfar Tzurif . Edri had been kidnapped and killed by a Hamas terrorist cell in September 1996 while hitchhiking to his home in Moshav Zanoah.
April 25, 1997
Hagit Zavitzky, age 23, of Kfar Adumim
Liat Kastiel, age 23, of Holon
Hagit and Liat were found stabbed to death in Wadi Kelt nature reserve.
July 20, 1997
An Arab attacked two Israelis with an iron rod in Rishon L'Tzion. One of the Israelis later died of his wounds.
July 22, 1997
An Israeli Arab tried to run down a group of tourists from England and Canada in Jaffa and then attacked them with a knife. Eleven tourists were wounded.
July 30, 1997
16 people were killed and 178 wounded in two consecutive suicide bombings in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem :
The victims:
Lev Desyatnik, age 60, of Jerusalem
Regina Giber, age 76, of Jerusalem
Valentina Kovalenko, age 67, of Jerusalem
Shmuel Malka, age 44, of Mevaseret Zion
David Nasco, age 44, of Mevaseret Zion
Muhi A-din Othman, age 33, of Abu Ghosh
Simha Fremd, age 92, of Jerusalem
Grisha Paskhovitz, age 15, of Jerusalem
Leah Stern, age 50, of Jerusalem
Rachel Tejgatrio, age 80, of Jerusalem
Liliya Zelezniak, age 47, of Jerusalem
Shalom (Golan) Zevulun, age 52, of Jerusalem
Mark Rabinowitz, age 80, of Jerusalem .
Eli Adourian, age 49, of Kfar Adumim, died on August 11.
Ilia Gazrach, age 73, of Pisgat Ze'ev, died on August 29.
Baruch Ostrovsky, age 84, of Jerusalem died on October 3.
Sept 4, 1997
Five people were killed and 181 wounded in three suicide bombings on the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem .
The victims:
Yael Botwin, age 14, of Jerusalem
Sivan Zarka, age 14, of Jerusalem
Smadar Elhanan, age 14, of Jerusalem
Rami Kozashvili, age 20, of Jerusalem
Eliahu Markowitz, age 40, of Jerusalem .
Nov 19, 1997
Gabriel Hirschberg, age 26
Gabriel was killed by automatic gunfire in the Old City of Jerusalem.
1998
Jan 6, 1998
Yael Meivar, age 25
Yael died of gunshot wounds sustained in a terrorist attack on Dec 31, 1997 near the settlement of Alei Zahav in Samaria .
Feb 11, 1998
David Ktorza, age 40, of Jerusalem
David was stabbed to death near his home.
April 19, 1998
Dov Driben, age 28, of Maon
Dov, an American-Israeli farmer, was murdered by Arab terrorists near the Israeli town of Maon in the Hevron Hills.
May 6, 1998
Haim Kerman, age 28
Haim, a student at the Atert Cohanim Yeshiva, was stabbed to death in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Aug 5, 1998
Harel Bin-Nun, age 18
Shlomo Liebman, age 24
Harel and Shlomo were shot and killed in an ambush by terrorists while on patrol at the Yizhar settlement in Samaria .
Aug 20, 1998
Rabbi Shlomo Ra'anan, age 63
Rabbi Shlomo was stabbed to death in the bedroom of his caravan in Hebron. The terrorist escaped after detonating a fire bomb inside the home.
August 27, 1998
Twelve people were wounded by a bomb detonated in front of the Tel Aviv Great Synagogue
September 24, 1998
One Israeli was wounded by bomb explosion at a public bus stop near the Hebrew University in Jerusalem .
September 30, 1998
During Yom Kippur, fourteen IDF soldiers and eleven Arabs were wounded by two grenades thrown in Hebron .
Oct 9, 1998
Michal Adato, age 19
Michal, an IDF soldier, was stabbed to death at Moshav Tomer in the Jordan Valley .
Oct 14, 1998
Itamar Doron, age 24
Itamar was shot to death while swimming in a spring near Moshav Ora, outside Jerusalem .
October 19, 1998
59 people are wounded when a Hamas terrorist hurled two grenades into a crowd at the Central bus station before running from the scene.
Oct 26, 1998
Danny Vargas, age 29, of Kiryat Arba
Danny was shot to death in Hebron .
Oct 29, 1998
Sergeant Alexey Neykov, age 19
Alexey was killed when a terrorist drove an explosives-laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40 elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.
November 6, 1998
Two terrorists died when their bombs prematurely exploded in a failed suicide bombing attack in Mahane Yehuda marketplace in Jerusalem. There were no other casualties.
1999
Jan 13, 1999
Sergeant Yehoshua Gavriel, 25, of Ashdod
Yehoshua was killed when terrorists opened fire at the Othniel junction near Hebron .
August 3, 1999
Baruch Ben-Yaakov and Ephraim Rosenstein were wounded by terrorists near Hevron.
August 7, 1999
Edward Berdinchinsky, age unknown
Edward was found shot in the head and burned to death in his car. Police announced on February 29, 2000 that the attack was a terrorist attack.
August 10, 1999
Eitan Vaknin, of Dotan, was wounded in an ambush while driving home and hospitalized in Afula. The terrorists escaped into the area controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
August 15, 1999
A Hamas bomb attack in an office building in Netanya injured about 20.
August 30, 1999
Yehiel Finfeter, age 25, of Kiryat Motzkin,
Sharon Steinmetz, age 21, of Haifa
Yehiel and Sharon were killed while hiking in the forest in the Megiddo region.
Sept 5, 1999
One unknown terrorist was killed when his car bomb exploded prematurely in Haifa .
Sept 5, 1999
Two civilians were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Tiberias.
Oct 30, 1999
Five Israelis were wounded by terrorist gunfire directed at a bus three kilometers from the Tarkumiya Checkpoint in the Hevron Hills area.
Nov 7, 1999
30 Israelis (28 civilians and 2 soldiers) were wounded when three bombs placed in garbage receptacles at the intersection of Herzl and Shar Haggai Streets in Natanya.
2000
February 9, 2000
Dov Weiss, of Givat Ze’ev
Gabriella Weiss, of Givat Ze’ev, (Dov’s wife)
Dov and Gabriella were found bludgeoned to death in their home. Police confirmed that the attack was a terrorist killing.
February 27, 2000
Gadi Rejwan, of Jerusalem
Gadi was shot to death by one of the Arab workers in his factory located in the Atarot Industrial Park in Jerusalem .
April 27, 2000
Efrat Lesser, age 17, resident of Elon Moreh
Efrat was shot by terrorists and suffered a head wound.
May 7, 2000
Yaakov Manzor, aged 9
Yitzhak Manzor, aged 17, (Yakov's brother)
Yaakov and Yitzhak were stabbed repeatedly in the chest and abdomen in Jerusalem .
May 21, 2000
Shalev Shabbat, aged 2, was critically burned and the child’s mother Segal Egozi was injured in a firebomb attack in Jericho .
June 20, 2000
A roadside bomb was detonated as a vehicles passed on the Netzarim/Karnei Road in the Gaza Strip. One person was wounded.
July 23, 2000
Arabs attacked and stabbed a Jerusalem municipality inspector near the Damascus Gate.
Sept 27, 2000
Sgt. David Biri, age 19, of Jerusalem
David was fatally wounded in a bombing near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
Sept 29, 2000
Yosef Tabeja, Border Police Supt. , age 27, of Ramle
Yosef was shot to death by his Palestinian counterpart on a joint patrol near Kalkilya.
Oct 1, 2000
Madhat Yusuf, Border Police Cpl., age 19, of Beit Jann
Madhat died of gunshot wounds sustained in a gun battle with Palestinians at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus .
Oct 2, 2000
Wichlav Zalsevsky, age 24, of Ashdod
Wichlav was shot in the head in the village of Masha on the trans-Samaria highway.
Oct 2, 2000
Sgt. Max Hazan, age 20, of Dimona
Max died of gunshot injuries sustained near Beit Sahur.
Oct 8, 2000
Hillel Lieberman, age 36, of Elon Moreh
Hillel’s bullet-riddled body of was found at the southern entrance to Nablus .
Oct 12, 2000
First Cpl. Yosef Avrahami, age unknown
First Sgt. Vadim Norzhich, age 33
Yosef and Vadim, both reserve IDF soldiers, were lynched by a Palestinian mob at the police building in Ramallah.
Oct 19, 2000
Rabbi Binyamin Herling, age 64, of Kedumim
Rabbi Binyamin was killed when Fatah members and Palestinian security forces opened fire on a group of Israeli men, women, and children on a trip at Mount Ebal near Nablus .
Oct 28, 2000
Marik Gavrilov, age 25, of Bnei Aysh
Marik’s body was found inside his burned-out car, between the village of Bitunia and Ramallah.
Oct 30, 2000
Eish-Kodesh Gilmor, age 25, of Mevo Modi’in
Eish-Kodesh was shot and killed while on duty as a security guard at the National Insurance Institute’s East Jerusalem branch. Another guard was injured.
Oct 30, 2000
Amos Machlouf, age 30, of the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem
Amos was found killed in a ravine near Beit Jala
Nov 1, 2000
Lt. David-Hen Cohen, age 21, of Karmiel
Sgt. Shlomo Adshina, age 20, of Kibbutz Ze’elim
David and Shlomo were killed in a shooting incident in the Al-Hader area, near Bethlehem .
Nov 1, 2000
Maj. (res.) Amir Zohar, age 34, of Jerusalem
Amir was killed in the Nahal Elisha settlement in the Jordan Valley while on active reserve duty.
Nov 2, 2000
Ayelet Shahar Levy, age 28
Hanan Levy, age 33
Ayelet and Hanan were killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem . 10 people were injured in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 8, 2000
Noa Dahan, age 25, of Moshav Mivtahim in the south Noa was shot to death while driving to her job at the Rafah border crossing in Gaza .
Nov 10, 2000
Sgt. Shahar Vekret, age 20, of Lod Shahar.
Shahar was fatally shot by a Palestinian sniper near Rachel’s Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem .
Nov 11, 2000
Sgt. 1st Class Avner Shalom, age 28, of Eilat
Avner was killed in a shooting attack at the Gush Katif junction in the Gaza Strip.
Nov 13, 2000
Sarah Leisha, age 42, of Neveh Tzuf
Sarah was killed by gunfire from a passing car while traveling near Ofra, north of Ramallah.
Nov 13, 2000
Cpl. Elad Wallenstein, age 18, of Ashkelon
Cpl. Amit Zanna, age 19, of Netanya
Elad and Amit were killed by gunfire from a car passing the military bus carrying them near Ofra.
Nov 13, 2000
Gabi Zaghouri, age 36, of Netivot
Gabi was killed by gunfire directed at the truck he was driving near the Kissufim junction in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Nov 18, 2000
St.-Sgt. Baruch (Snir) Flum, age 21, of Tel-Aviv
Snir was shot and killed by a senior Palestinian Preventive Security Service officer who infiltrated the Kfar Darom greenhouses in the Gaza Strip.
Nov 18, 2000
St.-Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi, age 21, of Ramle
Sharon was wounded in the Palestinian shooting attack in Kfar Darom, he died of his wounds on Nov 20.
Nov 20, 2000
Miriam Amitai, age 35, of Kfar Darom
Gavriel Biton, age 34, of Kfar Darom
Miriam and Gavriel were killed when a roadside bomb exploded alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Nine others, including 5 children, were injured.
Nov 21, 2000
Itamar Yefet, age 18, of Netzer Hazani
Itamar died from a gunshot wound to the head by Palestinian sniper fire at the Gush Katif junction.
Nov 22, 2000
Shoshana Reis, age 21, of Hadera
Meir Bahrame, age 35, of Givat Olga
Shoshana and Meir were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was detonated alongside a passing bus on Hadera’s main street. The area was packed with shoppers and people driving home from work.
Nov 23, 2000
Lt. Edward Matchnik, age 21, of Beersheba
Edward was killed in an explosion at the District Coordination Office near Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip. (The joint DCOs were established at the borders of Palestinian-ruled areas under the interim peace accords and were responsible for coordinating security and humanitarian cooperation.)
Nov 23, 2000
Sgt. Samar Hussein, age 19, of Hurfeish
Samar was killed when Palestinian snipers opened fire at soldiers patrolling the border fence near the Erez crossing.
Nov 24, 2000
Maj. Sharon Arameh, age 25, of Ashkelon
Sharon was killed by Palestinian sniper fire in fighting near Neve Dekalim in the Gaza Strip.
Nov 24, 2000
Ariel Jeraffi, age 40, of Petah Tikva
Ariel, a civilian employed by the IDF, was killed by Palestinian gun fire as he traveled near Otzarin in the West Bank .
Dec 8, 2000
Rina Didovsky, age 39
Eliyahu Ben-Ami, age 41, of Otniel,
Rina, a school teacher on her way to work, and Eliyahu, the driver of the van were both killed when a car full of gunmen opened fire on the van near Kiryat Arba.
Dec 8, 2000
Sgt. Tal Gordon, age 19
Tal was killed when gunmen in a passing car opened fire on an Egged bus traveling south from Tiberias to Jerusalem on the Jericho bypass road.
Dec 21, 2000
Eliahu Cohen, age 29, of Modi’in
Eliahu was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists waiting in ambush on the road between Givat Ze’ev and Beit Horon.
Dec 28, 2000
Capt. Gad Marasha, age 30, of Kiryat Arba
Yonatan Vermullen, Border Police Sgt.-Maj. , age 29, of Ben-Shemen
Gad and Yonatan were killed when called to dismantle a road-side bomb near the Sufa crossing in the Gaza Strip. The bomb was dismantled, however, a second bomb exploded, killing both and injuring two other soldiers. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 31, 2000
Binyamin Zeev Kahane, age unknown
Talia Kahane, age unknown, (Binyamin's wife)
Binyamin, the son of the late right-wing leader Meir Kahane, and his wife, Talia, were killed when Palestinian snipers opened fire while they were driving on the Ramallah bypass road. Five of their children, aged two months to 10 years, were injured.
