Victim of Sbarro suicide bombing in Jerusalem dies 22 years after attack
Chana Nachenberg had been in a vegetative state since the attack at Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem in 2001, which left 15 people killed, including seven children.
An Israeli woman who was injured in a Palestinian terror attack 22 years ago died on Thursday at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
Chana Tova Chaya Nachenberg, who was born in New York, had been in a vegetative state since the attack at the Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem on August 9, 2001, which left 15 people killed, including seven children.
More than 100 people were injured in the attack carried out by Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri on the corner of King George and Jaffa Road.
Nachenberg’s 3-year-old daughter survived the attack unharmed. “Her daughter, our granddaughter, is 24 and a half today. My daughter was supposed to be 53 years old in a month,” Nachenberg’s father, Yitzhak, was quoted by Times of Israel as saying.
“It has been 21 years and nine months since the attack, for which my daughter has been unconscious, in a coma, at Reuth (Rehabilitation) Hospital in Tel Aviv. About three weeks ago, she was hospitalised at Ichilov Hospital, where she died this evening,” he added.
A Palestinian woman, Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, was later arrested and jailed in Israel for being an accomplice in the terror attack. She was sentenced to life sentences, but was released in 2011 as part of Israel’s deal with Hamas to release Gilad Shalit from Gaza in return for over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.
Tamimi was sent to Jordan where she made a career as a public speaker an TV broadcaster. In 20202, Tamimi and her husband were deported to Qatar.
The Palestinian terrorist is on one FBI’s “most wanted,” offering up to $5million for tips about her that lead to her arrest.
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