A Tale of Two Systems

It was neither the best of times nor the worst of times.

I am not at all unbiased when it comes to the relationship between Israelis and the terrorists who want to murder all Jews, most Arabs and any Muslims who disagree with their fanaticism. Some might even argue that that sentence shows a complete lack of impartiality. It is true. I do not want my family, my country and my entire culture to be wiped off the face of the Earth. Strange as that may sound.

Some might even say that my portrayal of this is too extreme. But is it? One side wants to be left alone. One side wants to kill every last man, woman and child on the other side whether they are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Druze, Baha’i, other. You know you must have taken a wrong turn somewhere when you want to blow up the Baha’i.

I may be biased but those do not sound like equally balanced goals. If my side wins then everybody gets their own state and people can live their lives in peace and Coca Cola. If the other side wins then most of the people I know are dead. So I am obviously biased toward the peace and lack of genocide option.

But let’s see if we can look at this objectively. Three Jewish teenagers were kidnapped and murdered. Then an Arab teenager was murdered. Four children are dead but is there any difference in how people responded to those murders.

The Jewish teenagers were kidnapped because they were Jewish. They were likely kidnapped so that they could be traded for convicted mass murderers or money. The people who kidnap teenagers for ransom consider kidnapping a legitimate course of action in their crusade for domination over both the land and its people.

The Arab teenager was probably murdered because he was Arab. He was either murdered in retaliation over the Jewish teenagers or he was murdered by Arab terrorists. Time will tell. People who murder each other in retaliation know that it is wrong. People who murder their own kind in order to incite hatred of another group think that such a thing is a legitimate course of action.

Israeli leaders held Palestinian leaders, especially Mahmoud Abbas, responsible when the Jewish teenagers were kidnapped. Abbas said that it was none of his business since Hamas kidnapped the children and he does not control Hamas. That used to be a convenient excuse for complete inaction, especially since Hamas and Fatah spent more time killing each other than they did killing Israelis. But now they are supposedly united. If Abbas is their anointed dictator as he claims then he is responsible for their actions. If he is not responsible for their actions then he is clearly not their united leader. I am perfectly willing to accept either option but no one should accept both.

Palestinian leaders held Israeli leaders responsible for the Arab teenager. Abbas specifically singled out Netanyahu, saying that the leader of a people is responsible for the crimes of those people, even though he has always absolved himself completely of any and all responsibility of crimes committed by his people. Say what you will about Mahmoud Abbas but the man has chutzpah.

Israeli officials acted immediately when the Jewish teenagers were kidnapped and the area was thoroughly searched. This prompted an outcry from leaders of the searched neighbourhoods who felt that their people should be left out of it. There was no offer from Palestinian officials to help bring the murderers to justice.

Palestinian leaders demanded that Israel immediately find the murderer of the Arab teenager and bring him to justice, even though that would require searching neighbourhoods and upsetting some of those people.

Israeli citizens sat back and waited to see what would happen when the Jewish teenagers were kidnapped. There were prayers and condolences but the officials in charge were allowed to do their jobs and find the children. There were more prayers and more condolences when the bodies were found. People called for the murderers to be brought to justice but there were no chants of genocide or ethnic cleansing.

Palestinians rioted and attacked soldiers and each other in the streets when the Arab teenager was found. There were chants of “death to Israel” and “death to Jews” and somebody somewhere is probably making a few explosives.

Some Palestinians danced in the streets when the Jewish teenagers were found dead and people publicly rejoiced at the murder of three children. Some Palestinian leaders praised the kidnappings and the murderers were immediately praised as heroes.

No Israelis rejoiced at the murder of the Arab teenager. Israeli leaders, as well as the families of the murdered Jewish teenagers, publicly condemned the killing. As did the United Nations, United States, several other countries. The murderer is seen as a criminal in Israel.

The memorial services for the Jewish teenagers included crying, public support for each other and families, lots of prayers and hugging.

The memorial services for the Arab teenager included flag burnings, rocks thrown, chants of death to Israel and the United States.

When a Palestinian child is killed, people say that children should always be left out of it. There is international outrage and all the American news outlets interrupt their endless coverage of Syrians and Iraqis killing each other. Everybody says that these children are innocent bystanders who should not pay for the actions of their fathers and grandfathers. I agree with that completely. Unlike the United Nations, the International Community and CNN, I also agree with that even when it is Jewish children who are paying.

One side of this conflict teaches their children that there are disputes and disagreements. The other side teaches their children that Jews are evil monsters and must be murdered indiscriminately at all costs, as should any Arab “collaborators”. Which is more damaging to both sets of children? A checkpoint is inconvenient but it will never kill your child. A bomb strapped to his chest almost definitely will.

I was just wondering.

You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato

I simply do not understand the international media. Just now they are rubbing themselves raw over the announcement that Fatah and Hamas are going to be best friends. Either they have forgotten every other previous announcement and how short that friendship lasted or, more likely, they actually expect this one to take hold. Time will tell. But my money is on the no way in hell option.

The fact that members of Hamas’ Central Council have rejected the proposal should tell you something. Even if some part of Fatah joins up with some part of Hamas there will still be large chunks of both groups that do not recognise each other. They might form other organisations and call themselves something else, so technically Fatah and Hamas will be one, but realistically they will still be divided. Years of civil war tend to cause rifts between people whether they want to kill all the Jews or not.

Not at all surprisingly, the international media have decided that Israel is to blame for everything since Netanyahu backed out of “peace talks”. Ignoring that peace talks have always meant that Israel sets Arab murderers free and gives away more land just to get the Palestinian side to the table, and that the Palestinian side has so far never given anything in return. Ignoring that the only thing Israel wants from the Palestinian side is for them to stop trying to kill Israelis, and that asking somebody to stop killing you is not considered a painful concession in any other part of the world. The international media predictably lay all the blame on Israel on the rare occasion that Israel pulls out of “peace talks” but never blames Palestine for the hundreds of times that they have pulled out. When Israel backs out it is Israel’s fault. When Palestine backs out it is Israel’s fault.

The international media want nothing more than to place the legally elected representatives of a liberal democracy on the same level as totalitarian dictators who murder their own people but they can never seem to report anything that happens on anything close to an even level. The more they report that everything is always Israel’s fault the more Palestinian leaders complain that the international media are biased toward Israel and the more the international media report that everything is always Israel’s fault. One thing the media experts in Israel and Palestine can agree on is their amazement that the international media are so gullible.

Bibi has said that he and Israel do not and will not negotiate with terrorists. Somehow this is “proof” that Israel does not want peace. What country in the world is required to negotiate with terrorists? And these particular terrorists do not simply bomb embassies on the other side of the world. They fire rockets into Israel on a regular basis. They have vowed to kill every last Arab in the Levant if that is what it takes to kill Israel. Imagine if some separatists in Texas fired rockets into New Orleans. Who would ever tell the United States that not only do they have to negotiate with terrorists but that they are equal. Would the United States give them Texas and hope for fewer attacks? Or would the United States bomb the hell out of these terrorists with the international media’s full support?

But Texas and Palestine are not analogous. That is true. Texas was taken by force from Mexico and eventually became part of the United States. Judea and Samaria were part of Israel for thousands of years before being taken by force from Jordan.

Another difference, and this might be important, is that both Texas and the United States are democracies where all men are created equal. More or less. Israel is also such a democracy. Palestine is a brutal dictatorship where being Jewish, homosexual, and/or female is illegal. The United States and Israel are not interested in having a country of one race and one religion. What Palestine wants is nothing short of ethnic cleansing. But you will never hear that from the UN.

Much is being made of Mahmoud Abbas’ announcement that his dictatorship will renounce violence against Israel. All is well according to the international media. Just as it was every other time Abbas renounced violence against Israel. What the international media always ignore is the fact that Abbas has done absolutely nothing to stop the terrorist organisation that he controls and the terrorist organisations that support him from carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel. Saying that you will stop blowing people up is nice but means precious little if you do absolutely nothing to stop blowing people up.

Unless you are the international media. Then the next time Abbas’ terrorists blow somebody up it will be Israel’s fault.

Lost In Translation

After several years of various civil wars, revolutions, coups in Arab states somebody decided that Israel needed another fabricated controversy attached to it. The initial attempt to blame the “Arab Spring” on Israel failed miserably as soon as it all started. Something had to be done.

I am disappointed to see that this month’s wedge issue is about a beverage company.

American actress Scarlett Johansson did an advertisement for an Israeli beverage company. Clearly she was looking for trouble.

In the interest of full disclosure I will point out that I am not much of a Scarlett Johansson fan and I think that SodaStream sucks. I thought she was better before she became an action star. Something happens to them after they do action movies. Remember when Liam Neeson was a real actor?

The whole SodaStream concept is queer to me, though I do appreciate the environmental aspects of their organisation. If you want a carbonated beverage then you should buy a Pepsi. Making your own is like making your own helicopter. It might seem a good idea at the time but it won’t fly.

After Johansson started filming adverts, her friends at Oxfam complained. They did not have the balls to drop her but they were more than willing to complain about her despite all the work she did for them. Apparently they hold firmly to their convictions up to the point of not trying to upset celebrities too much. So Johansson dropped them.

Up to this point I do not particularly care. What any celebrity advertises is none of my concern. What got my attention were the calls to boycott SodaStream and close down its factory.

The narrative is pretty simple. SodaStream is an Israeli company. Therefore it is evil. It has a factory in Ma’ale Adumim. Therefore it is evil. Ma’ale Adumim was part of the British Mandate land handed over to Israel. Therefore it is the new historic ancient Palestinian homeland. If that does not make any sense, ask people who want to return to the 1967 borders why they refuse to even consider the 1948 borders. I know the answer to that one but sometimes it is amusing to see how they rationalise Jordan’s invasion and occupation of land whilst decrying Israel’s control of land it owned before Jordan invaded the first time.

What all the liberal peace activists who love human rights and favour brutal Arab dictatorships over a liberal democracy with human rights fail to realise, or more likely fail to care about, is that closing the Ma’ale Adumim factory would put about 1000 Arabs out of work. SodaStream may be an Israeli, ie evil, company but it pays those Arab employees Israeli wages and gives them Israeli benefits. No Arab company in Judea and Samaria pays anything close or provides evil socialist health cover.

Israeli companies are also forbidden by law and common decency to murder homosexuals and treat women as property. Closing the factory would be bad news for any homosexuals or women working there who do not want to be murdered property. Can anybody tell me why none of the liberal peace activists who love human rights ever comment on how the Palestinian Authority treats homosexuals and women? I have never heard any plausible explanation for this. Or even an implausible explanation. They simply ignore how much their heroes ignore peace and human rights.

Closing the factory would also cause unnecessary unemployment in a time and place that would not benefit from even more unemployment. And even if a few of those thousand people could find other jobs they would likely make far less money and work in Arab working conditions. If you think that all Arabs are oil millionaires driving their racing cars up sand dunes then you should join the liberal peace activists who love human rights and are equally as clueless.

And closing that factory would virtually guarantee a UN resolution condemning Israel for closing a factory and putting 1000 Arabs out of work. There would be a separate resolution against Israel after any former factory employees are murdered by their Arab dictators for being women or homosexuals. Or any former employees for being “traitors”. The Palestinian Authority loves to execute “traitors”. I would think that liberal peace activists who love human rights would be against that. But I would be wrong.

Why do human rights advocates hate the Arabs of Judea and Samaria so much? I cannot say. Perhaps for the same reasons that other Arabs seem to hate them so. I can understand hating the Arabs of Israel. After all, they live with a bunch of Jews. But is their hatred of Israel truly strong enough to condemn all Levant Arabs? Time will tell.

Anybody who wants to boycott Israel either knows that damaging Israel’s economy is very dangerous for Yosh Arabs or is too caught up in their academic indignation to see how much Israel provides to Judea and Samaria. Or they simply have no idea what is going on here.

And if you want to boycott Israel then I sincerely hope that you also want to boycott China, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Qatar, Myanmar, Russia, Syria, Bangladesh, Uganda, Sudan, Egypt and a few dozen other countries. Or is there some way in which Israel is different from those countries?

Israeli Apartheid

Under apartheid, blacks were not citizens of their own country. Since they were not citizens of any country they could not get passports to go elsewhere. Not that many blacks had enough money to go anywhere. There was no legal black infrastructure and the only way to make any money was to work for whites. They could not vote in elections or hold any public office. They could not use white hospitals, schools, parks, transportation.

Every Israeli citizen has the same rights and responsibilities as every other Israeli citizen, regardless of religion, race, gender, sexuality. There are laws against discrimination just like any other advanced democracy. Israelis can leave the country any time and live somewhere else if they want.

Citizens of Palestine have limited rights, especially women, homosexuals, Christians. Palestine is not a democracy. Their president’s term ended in 2009, yet he continues to rule unelected. Most Palestinians cannot legally leave the country, except to go into Israel, and if they go somewhere else they are usually forced into refugee camps and never allowed to assimilate into that country. Palestine’s infrastructure is the responsibility of the Palestinian government, though they get a great deal of assistance from Israel. Some people used to complain that Israeli funded hospitals in Palestine were occupation. But when Israel completely pulled out of Gaza those same people complained that Israel was hindering Palestinian access to health care.

Disproportionate Response

These are not political prisoners. These are not conscientious objectors or people who failed to pay parking fines. These are cold blooded murderers responsible for the violent deaths of 600 innocent men, women, children, including more than a few innocent Palestinian civilians. Palestinian terrorists generally kill more Palestinians than they kill Israelis. And soon they will be free to kill again.

Gilad Shalit was 19 years old when he was kidnapped. He is 26 now. When he finally goes home he will probably go to school or get a job and live out his life as he would have had he never been kidnapped. Most of the 1027 will not live the rest of their lives peacefully. They will be welcomed back by rejoicing Palestinians before they return to killing Palestinians in their quest to kill Israel.

Bibi Goes to Washington

I am deeply honored by your warm welcome. And I am deeply honored that you have given me the opportunity to address Congress a second time.

Mr Vice President, do you remember the time we were the new kids in town?

And I do see a lot of old friends here. And I do see a lot of new friends of Israel here. Democrats and Republicans alike.

Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism. Congratulations America. Congratulations, Mr President. You got bin Laden. Good riddance.

In an unstable Middle East, Israel is the one anchor of stability. In a region of shifting alliances, Israel is America’s unwavering ally. Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.

My friends, you don’t need to do nation building in Israel. We’re already built. You don’t need to export democracy to Israel. We’ve already got it. You don’t need to send American troops to defend Israel. We defend ourselves. You’ve been very generous in giving us tools to do the job of defending Israel on our own. Thank you all, and thank you President Obama, for your steadfast commitment to Israel’s security. I know economic times are tough. I deeply appreciate this.

Support for Israel’s security is a wise investment in our common future. For an epic battle is now unfolding in the Middle East, between tyranny and freedom. A great convulsion is shaking the earth from the Khyber Pass to the Straits of Gibraltar. The tremors have shattered states and toppled governments.

And we can all see that the ground is still shifting. Now this historic moment holds the promise of a new dawn of freedom and opportunity. Millions of young people are determined to change their future. We all look at them. They muster courage. They risk their lives. They demand dignity. They desire liberty.

These extraordinary scenes in Tunis and Cairo, evoke those of Berlin and Prague in 1989. Yet as we share their hopes, but we also must also remember that those hopes could be snuffed out as they were in Tehran in 1979. You remember what happened then. The brief democratic spring in Iran was cut short by a ferocious and unforgiving tyranny. This same tyranny smothered Lebanon’s democratic Cedar Revolution, and inflicted on that long-suffering country, the medieval rule of Hezbollah.

So today, the Middle East stands at a fateful crossroads. Like all of you, I pray that the peoples of the region choose the path less travelled, the path of liberty. No one knows what this path consists of better than you. This path is not paved by elections alone. It is paved when governments permit protests in town squares, when limits are placed on the powers of rulers, when judges are beholden to laws and not men, and when human rights cannot be crushed by tribal loyalties or mob rule.

Israel has always embraced this path, in the Middle East has long rejected it. In a region where women are stoned, gays are hanged, Christians are persecuted, Israel stands out. It is different.

As the great English writer George Eliot predicted over a century ago, that once established, the Jewish state will “shine like a bright star of freedom amid the despotisms of the East.” Well, she was right. We have a free press, independent courts, an open economy, rambunctious parliamentary debates. You think you guys are tough on one another in Congress? Come spend a day in the Knesset. Be my guest.

Courageous Arab protesters, are now struggling to secure these very same rights for their peoples, for their societies. We’re proud that over one million Arab citizens of Israel have been enjoying these rights for decades. Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel’s Arab citizens enjoy real democratic rights. I want you to stop for a second and think about that. Of those 300 million Arabs, less than one-half of one-percent are truly free, and they’re all citizens of Israel.

This startling fact reveals a basic truth: Israel is not what is wrong about the Middle East. Israel is what is right about the Middle East.

Israel fully supports the desire of Arab peoples in our region to live freely. We long for the day when Israel will be one of many real democracies in the Middle East.

Fifteen years ago, I stood at this very podium, and said that democracy must start to take root in the Arab World. Well, it’s begun to take root. This beginning holds the promise of a brilliant future of peace and prosperity. For I believe that a Middle East that is genuinely democratic will be a Middle East truly at peace.

But while we hope and work for the best, we must also recognize that powerful forces oppose this future. They oppose modernity. They oppose democracy. They oppose peace.

Foremost among these forces is Iran. The tyranny in Tehran brutalizes its own people. It supports attacks against American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. It subjugates Lebanon and Gaza. It sponsors terror worldwide.

When I last stood here, I spoke of the dire consequences of Iran developing nuclear weapons. Now time is running out, and the hinge of history may soon turn. For the greatest danger facing humanity could soon be upon us: A militant Islamic regime armed with nuclear weapons.

Militant Islam threatens the world. It threatens Islam. I have no doubt that it will ultimately be defeated. It will eventually succumb to the forces of freedom and progress. But like other fanaticisms that were doomed to fail, militant Islam could exact a horrific price from all of us before its inevitable demise.

A nuclear-armed Iran would ignite a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. It would give terrorists a nuclear umbrella. It would make the nightmare of nuclear terrorism a clear and present danger throughout the world. I want you to understand what this means. They could put the bomb anywhere. They could put it on a missile. It could be on a container ship in a port, or in a suitcase on a subway.

Now the threat to my country cannot be overstated. Those who dismiss it are sticking their heads in the sand. Less than seven decades after six million Jews were murdered, Iran’s leaders deny the Holocaust of the Jewish people, while calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state.

Leaders who spew such venom, should be banned from every respectable forum on the planet. But there is something that makes the outrage even greater: The lack of outrage. In much of the international community, the calls for our destruction are met with utter silence. It is even worse because there are many who rush to condemn Israel for defending itself against Iran’s terror proxies.

But not you. Not America. You have acted differently. You’ve condemned the Iranian regime for its genocidal aims. You’ve passed tough sanctions against Iran. History will salute you America.

President Obama has said that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. He successfully led the Security Council to adopt sanctions against Iran. You in Congress passed even tougher sanctions. These words and deeds are vitally important.

Yet the Ayatollah regime briefly suspended its nuclear program only once, in 2003, when it feared the possibility of military action. That same year, Muammar Qadaffi gave up his nuclear weapons program, and for the same reason. The more Iran believes that all options are on the table, the less the chance of confrontation. This is why I ask you to continue to send an unequivocal message: That America will never permit Iran to develop nuclear weapons.

As for Israel, if history has taught the Jewish people anything, it is that we must take calls for our destruction seriously. We are a nation that rose from the ashes of the Holocaust. When we say never again, we mean never again. Israel always reserves the right to defend itself.

My friends, while Israel will be ever vigilant in its defense, we will never give up on our quest for peace. I guess we’ll give it up when we achieve it. Israel wants peace. Israel needs peace. We’ve achieved historic peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan that have held up for decades.

I remember what it was like before we had peace. I was nearly killed in a firefight inside the Suez Canal. I mean that literally. I battled terrorists along both banks of the Jordan River. Too many Israelis have lost loved ones. I know their grief. I lost my brother.

So no one in Israel wants a return to those terrible days. The peace with Egypt and Jordan has long served as an anchor of stability and peace in the heart of the Middle East.

This peace should be bolstered by economic and political support to all those who remain committed to peace.

The peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan are vital. But they’re not enough. We must also find a way to forge a lasting peace with the Palestinians. Two years ago, I publicly committed to a solution of two states for two peoples: A Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state.

I am willing to make painful compromises to achieve this historic peace. As the leader of Israel, it is my responsibility to lead my people to peace.

This is not easy for me. I recognize that in a genuine peace, we will be required to give up parts of the Jewish homeland. In Judea and Samaria, the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers. We are not the British in India. We are not the Belgians in the Congo.

This is the land of our forefathers, the Land of Israel, to which Abraham brought the idea of one God, where David set out to confront Goliath, and where Isaiah saw a vision of eternal peace. No distortion of history can deny the four thousand year old bond, between the Jewish people and the Jewish land.

But there is another truth: The Palestinians share this small land with us. We seek a peace in which they will be neither Israel’s subjects nor its citizens. They should enjoy a national life of dignity as a free, viable and independent people in their own state. They should enjoy a prosperous economy, where their creativity and initiative can flourish.

We’ve already seen the beginnings of what is possible. In the last two years, the Palestinians have begun to build a better life for themselves. Prime Minister Fayad has led this effort. I wish him a speedy recovery from his recent operation.

We’ve helped the Palestinian economy by removing hundreds of barriers and roadblocks to the free flow of goods and people. The results have been nothing short of remarkable. The Palestinian economy is booming. It’s growing by more than 10% a year.

Palestinian cities look very different today than they did just a few years ago. They have shopping malls, movie theaters, restaurants, banks. They even have e-businesses. This is all happening without peace. Imagine what could happen with peace. Peace would herald a new day for both peoples. It would make the dream of a broader Arab-Israeli peace a realistic possibility.

So now here is the question. You have to ask it. If the benefits of peace with the Palestinians are so clear, why has peace eluded us? Because all six Israeli Prime Ministers since the signing of Oslo accords agreed to establish a Palestinian state. Myself included. So why has peace not been achieved? Because so far, the Palestinians have been unwilling to accept a Palestinian state, if it meant accepting a Jewish state alongside it.

You see, our conflict has never been about the establishment of a Palestinian state. It has always been about the existence of the Jewish state. This is what this conflict is about. In 1947, the United Nations voted to partition the land into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jews said yes. The Palestinians said no. In recent years, the Palestinians twice refused generous offers by Israeli Prime Ministers, to establish a Palestinian state on virtually all the territory won by Israel in the Six Day War.

They were simply unwilling to end the conflict. And I regret to say this: They continue to educate their children to hate. They continue to name public squares after terrorists. And worst of all, they continue to perpetuate the fantasy that Israel will one day be flooded by the descendants of Palestinian refugees.

My friends, this must come to an end. President Abbas must do what I have done. I stood before my people, and I told you it wasn’t easy for me, and I said, “I will accept a Palestinian state.” It is time for President Abbas to stand before his people and say, “I will accept a Jewish state.”

Those six words will change history. They will make clear to the Palestinians that this conflict must come to an end. That they are not building a state to continue the conflict with Israel, but to end it. They will convince the people of Israel that they have a true partner for peace. With such a partner, the people of Israel will be prepared to make a far reaching compromise. I will be prepared to make a far reaching compromise.

This compromise must reflect the dramatic demographic changes that have occurred since 1967. The vast majority of the 650,000 Israelis who live beyond the 1967 lines, reside in neighborhoods and suburbs of Jerusalem and Greater Tel Aviv.

These areas are densely populated but geographically quite small. Under any realistic peace agreement, these areas, as well as other places of critical strategic and national importance, will be incorporated into the final borders of Israel.

The status of the settlements will be decided only in negotiations. But we must also be honest. So I am saying today something that should be said publicly by anyone serious about peace. In any peace agreement that ends the conflict, some settlements will end up beyond Israel’s borders. The precise delineation of those borders must be negotiated. We will be very generous on the size of a future Palestinian state. But as President Obama said, the border will be different than the one that existed on June 4, 1967. Israel will not return to the indefensible lines of 1967.

We recognize that a Palestinian state must be big enough to be viable, independent and prosperous. President Obama rightly referred to Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, just as he referred to the future Palestinian state as the homeland of the Palestinian people. Jews from around the world have a right to immigrate to the Jewish state. Palestinians from around the world should have a right to immigrate, if they so choose, to a Palestinian state. This means that the Palestinian refugee problem will be resolved outside the borders of Israel.

As for Jerusalem, only a democratic Israel has protected freedom of worship for all faiths in the city. Jerusalem must never again be divided. Jerusalem must remain the united capital of Israel. I know that this is a difficult issue for Palestinians. But I believe with creativity and goodwill a solution can be found.

This is the peace I plan to forge with a Palestinian partner committed to peace. But you know very well, that in the Middle East, the only peace that will hold is a peace you can defend.

So peace must be anchored in security. In recent years, Israel withdrew from South Lebanon and Gaza. But we didn’t get peace. Instead, we got 12,000 thousand rockets fired from those areas on our cities, on our children, by Hezbollah and Hamas. The UN peacekeepers in Lebanon failed to prevent the smuggling of this weaponry. The European observers in Gaza evaporated overnight.

So if Israel simply walked out of the territories, the flow of weapons into a future Palestinian state would be unchecked. Missiles fired from it could reach virtually every home in Israel in less than a minute. I want you to think about that too. Imagine that right now we all had less than 60 seconds to find shelter from an incoming rocket. Would you live that way? Would anyone live that way? Well, we aren’t going to live that way either.

The truth is that Israel needs unique security arrangements because of its unique size. Israel is one of the smallest countries in the world. Mr Vice President, I’ll grant you this. It’s bigger than Delaware. It’s even bigger than Rhode Island. But that’s about it. Israel on the 1967 lines would be half the width of the Washington Beltway.

Now here’s a bit of nostalgia. I first came to Washington thirty years ago as a young diplomat. It took me a while, but I finally figured it out: There is an America beyond the Beltway. But Israel on the 1967 lines would be only nine miles wide. So much for strategic depth.

So it is therefore absolutely vital for Israel’s security that a Palestinian state be fully demilitarized. And it is vital that Israel maintain a long-term military presence along the Jordan River. Solid security arrangements on the ground are necessary not only to protect the peace, they are necessary to protect Israel in case the peace unravels. For in our unstable region, no one can guarantee that our peace partners today will be there tomorrow.

And when I say tomorrow, I don’t mean some distant time in the future. I mean tomorrow. Peace can be achieved only around the negotiating table. The Palestinian attempt to impose a settlement through the United Nations will not bring peace. It should be forcefully opposed by all those who want to see this conflict end.

I appreciate the President’s clear position on this issue. Peace cannot be imposed. It must be negotiated. But it can only be negotiated with partners committed to peace.

And Hamas is not a partner for peace. Hamas remains committed to Israel’s destruction and to terrorism. They have a charter. That charter not only calls for the obliteration of Israel, but says ‘kill the Jews wherever you find them’. Hamas’ leader condemned the killing of Osama bin Laden and praised him as a holy warrior. Now again I want to make this clear. Israel is prepared to sit down today and negotiate peace with the Palestinian Authority. I believe we can fashion a brilliant future of peace for our children. But Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by the Palestinian version of Al Qaeda.

So I say to President Abbas: Tear up your pact with Hamas. Sit down and negotiate. Make peace with the Jewish state. And if you do, I promise you this. Israel will not be the last country to welcome a Palestinian state as a new member of the United Nations. It will be the first to do so.

My friends, the momentous trials of the last century, and the unfolding events of this century, attest to the decisive role of the United States in advancing peace and defending freedom. Providence entrusted the United States to be the guardian of liberty. All peoples who cherish freedom owe a profound debt of gratitude to your great nation. Among the most grateful nations is my nation, the people of Israel, who have fought for their liberty and survival against impossible odds, in ancient and modern times alike.

I speak on behalf of the Jewish people and the Jewish state when I say to you, representatives of America, Thank you. Thank you for your unwavering support for Israel. Thank you for ensuring that the flame of freedom burns bright throughout the world. May God bless all of you. And may God forever bless the United States of America.

Benjamin Netanyahu
Washington, DC
24 May 2011

Copied from the Jerusalem Post website.

Happy Nakba Day

I’ve endless sympathy for the people of Palestine. They have been used as pawns by so many for so long. Hundreds of thousands of them were displaced when the Ottomans and the British decided to carve up the land. So were hundreds of thousands of Israelis. And I have never seen any Arab group anywhere advocate letting any of those Israelis and their descendants back in.

But Israelis have Israel. Do Arabs have any countries they can call their own? Obviously I’m missing the point. It is not enough to have Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco, Qatar, Oman, Algeria, Tunisia, Somalia, Sudan, UAE. They are simply incomplete without Israel.

Mavet la Mickey Mouse

Israel produces propaganda also. But it is usually more upbeat. Israeli propaganda is more along the lines of Israel being a beacon of light for Jews looking to escape oppression and bigotry. I have never seen anything with Jews decapitating anybody or calling for death to anybody who draws a cartoon about Moses. I guess that is one of the differences between a stable democracy and a terrorist organisation.

Mia’s Peace Plan

Set a deadline for the formal creation of a sovereign Palestine and remove all Israeli military and security forces. At that point Palestine either has to step up to the plate or get off the field. If they refuse to have their own country yet again then make the territory part of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon or some kind of UN no man’s land. Once Palestine’s leaders reject further proposals for a sovereign Palestine then they can no longer claim homeland privileges and must accept the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in whatever country Palestine is placed. If it is divided amongst several countries then its people will be given the opportunity to relocate to another area that is part of whichever country they choose.

Alternately, an election can be held at an announced date and whoever is elected will then become the leaders of what will then be called Palestine. Any country that wishes to recognise it may do so. Israel should be the first. Those Palestinians who do not want to live in a sovereign Palestine will have the option to immigrate to any other country they wish, provided that other country accepts them. Any Arab country other than Jordan probably will not but everybody is welcome to try.

Should the leaders of Palestine finally accept a sovereign country then it is their responsibility to govern and control the people and territory without reliance on Israel for their survival or blaming Isreal for all their problems. Any acts of war committed by the people of Palestine or its leaders against any other sovereign country will be subject to the same consequences every other country in the world faces.

A Conspiracy of One

Take any story about the Israel-Palestine conflict where the International Community expresses moral outrage over whatever bad thing Israel did and replace Israel with America or any European country and replace Palestinian terrorist with guerrilla or rebel fighter. Is the International Community ever morally outraged when Spain kills a few Basque separatists? Imagine if Quebec launched rockets into the US. Would the US apologise for not speaking French and building the Erie Canal? Or would American Marines invade the hell out of Canada? Why is there more moral outrage over Israeli soldiers defending its borders than there is over American soldiers fighting half a world away from its borders? That is a rhetorical question. I already know the answer.  

How to Be Stupid

The UN envoy to the Middle East said that evicting people was against the Geneva Conventions guidelines for occupied territory. Somebody needs to tell the UN that Israel does not consider any part of Israel occupied territory.

I would like Tel Aviv to be the capital just as much as any European. It would make my life easier on a number of levels. But sooner or later we are all going to have to face the fact that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. You can’t decide ours anymore than we can decide yours. And if we can then I say San Francisco is America’s new capital. Just to force all those politicians to live there. Republicans will love the Castro.

And anybody whose job title is UN envoy to the Middle East should be sacked immediately. None of the parties involved care what the UN says. You might as well make Tony Blair a special peace envoy. That would be funny were it not so appalling.

The Good Shepherd

Mr Bishara is one of those really great people most of the world will never know about. He never wanted to be rich and famous. He was not at his bakery until something better came along. Baking bread is what he loved to do. He always took pride in his work no matter how small the task and that is why his bread was so good. It is amazing to me how many people don’t take pride in their work. So many people are waiting for something else. They will start to really live once they win lots of money in a contest.

I was talking to a friend the other day who is usually upset that she can’t find the right man. She is sure that once she finds him her life can begin. I keep telling her that her life began a long time ago. This is it. This is your life right now. People who wait around for their life to start are always surprised when they are old and it is almost over. There is a Pink Floyd song about that but I don’t remember which one right now.

Gaza Q&A

Why doesn’t Israel just pull out of Palestine and leave them alone?

That is an easy one. Israel will leave when the Palestinian Authority disarms their terrorists. The Palestinian Authority will disarm their terrorists when Israel pulls out. Somewhere along the line somebody is going to have to compromise. So far Israel has made many concessions while Palestine has made none. Each time Israel gives away more land the response has been more violence.

Israel does not want to control Palestine. Palestine has been the bane of Israel’s existence for 60 years. By being “the occupier” Israel is obligated to provide electricity, food and water. Without Israel’s economic assistance Palestine would have starved decades ago. Their Arab neighbours are not interested.

Palestine was offered sovereignty in 1947 but the Arab League refused. Israel practically begged Jordan to take over Palestine in 1968 but they refused. Israel offered to leave Gaza and almost all of the West Bank in 2000 but Palestine refused. Arab countries seem to think that it is more advantageous for them to leave Palestine as an occupied state. And it is. There is a reason all those Palestinian refugees in camps have never been integrated into those countries’ societies. Since 1948 only Jordan has ever made any Palestinian refugees citizens of its country.

It is not a control issue. When Israel gave Sinai back to Egypt they were happy and there was peace. When Israel gave part of Golan back to Syria they were not happy but there was peace. Every time Israel gives some land to Palestine there is more violence. As soon as Israel pulled out of Gaza, Hamas took over and terrorism escalated. If history is any indication, pulling out of the entire West Bank would lead to a bloodbath.

And I Think It’s Gonna Be a Long Long Time

Obviously I am biased. I’m an Israeli citizen. I serve in the IDF. I want my side to win. But I don’t think it is an issue of Jews versus Muslims or Israelis versus Arabs. It is extremists versus moderates.

None of the Palestinians I know have any problems with Israel. They simply want their country to have a sovereign government recognised by the international community. I think that is what most Israelis want also. From my point of view the biggest obstacle to this is terrorist activity against Israel.

The worst thing Israeli extremists want are more settlements in Palestine. While Israeli settlements do not help, they also do not cause the deaths of innocent children. The worst thing Palestinian extremists want is the death of every last Israeli man, woman and child. I’m biased but I think killing all Israelis is much worse than building houses in Palestine.

In the propaganda war on TV and the internet between Israel and Hamas I have heard too much about who is right and who is wrong, who did what bad things to whom. Everybody is convinced they are right and as usual the people who suffer the most are the children. Not a single Israeli or Palestinian child chose this. They don’t care about what happened in 1967 or 1948 or 1500 years ago. The children of Israel and Palestine are being killed because their fathers and grandfathers can’t get over the past and live by the rules all children learn in the playground: Every other child is a potential friend if you share and play nice.

Full Moon Over Gaza

I don’t think it is technically a full moon, but there it is.

The Cost of Freedom

2000 September 27: Sgt. David Biri (19) of Jerusalem, bombed near Netzarim.

2000 September 29: Supt. Yosef Tabeja (27) of Ramle, shot by his Palestinian counterpart on a joint patrol near Kalkilya.

2000 October 1: Police Cpl. Madhat Yusuf (19) of Beit Jann, shot at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus.

2000 October 2: Wichlav Zalsevsky (24) of Ashdod, shot in Masha on the trans-Samaria highway. Sgt. Max Hazan (20) of Dimona, shot near Beit Sahur.

2000 October 8: Hillel Lieberman (36) of Elon Moreh, shot near Nablus.

2000 October 12: First Cpl. Yosef Avrahami and First Sgt. Vadim Norzhich (33) lynched by a Palestinian mob at the police building in Ramallah.

2000 October 19: Rabbi Binyamin Herling (64) of Kedumim, shot at Mt. Ebal near Nablus.

2000 October 28: Marik Gavrilov (25) of Bnei Aysh, burnt between the villages of Bitunia and Ramallah.

2000 October 30: Eish-Kodesh Gilmor (25) of Mevo Modi'in, shot at the National Insurance Institute's East Jerusalem branch. [1 other injured].

2000 October 30: Amos Machlouf (30) of Gilo, found dead in a ravine near Beit Jala.

2000 November 1: Lt. David-Hen Cohen (21) of Karmiel and Sgt. Shlomo Adshina (20) of Kibbutz Ze'elim, shot in the Al-Hader area.

2000 November 1: Maj. Amir Zohar (34) of Jerusalem, killed in the Nahal Elisha settlement in the Jordan Valley.

2000 November 2: Ayelet Shahar Levy (28) and Hanan Levy (33) bombed near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. [10 others injured].

2000 November 8: Noa Dahan (25) of Moshav Mivtahim, shot at the Rafah border crossing in Gaza.

2000 November 10: Sgt. Shahar Vekret (20) of Lod, shot by snipers near Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem.

2000 November 11: Sgt. Avner Shalom (28) of Eilat, shot at the Gush Katif junction in Gaza.

2000 November 13: Sarah Leisha (42) of Neveh Tzuf, Cpl. Elad Wallenstein (18) of Ashkelon, Cpl. Amit Zanna (19) of Netanya, shot near Ofra.

2000 November 13: Gabi Zaghouri (36) of Netivot, shot near the Kissufim junction in Gaza.

2000 November 18: SSgt. Baruch Flum (21) of Tel Aviv and SSgt. Sharon Shitoubi (21) of Ramle, shot at the Kfar Darom greenhouses in Gaza.

2000 November 20: Miriam Amitai (35) and Gavriel Biton (34) both of Kfar Darom, bombed between Kfar Darom and Gush Katif. [9 others, including 5 children, injured].

2000 November 21: Itamar Yefet (18) of Netzer Hazani, shot by sniper fire at the Gush Katif junction.

2000 November 22: Shoshana Reis (21) of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame (35) of Givat Olga, bombed in Hadera. [60 others injured].

2000 November 23: Lt. Edward Matchnik (21) of Beersheba, bombed at the DCO near Gush Katif in Gaza.

2000 November 23: Sgt. Samar Hussein (19) of Hurfeish, shot by snipers near the Erez crossing.

2000 November 24: Maj. Sharon Arameh (25) of Ashkelon, shot by sniper fire near Neve Dekalim in Gaza.

2000 November 24: Ariel Jeraffi (40) of Petah Tikva, shot near Otzarin in Palestine.

2000 December 8: Rina Didovsky (39) of Beit Hagai and Eliyahu Ben-Ami (41) of Otniel, shot near Kiryat Arba.

2000 December 8: Sgt. Tal Gordon (19) shot on the Jericho bypass road.

2000 December 21: Eliahu Cohen (29) of Modi'in, shot on a road between Givat Ze'ev and Beit Horon.

2000 December 28: Capt. Gad Marasha (30) of Kiryat Arba and Police Sgt. Maj. Yonatan Vermullen (29) of Ben-Shemen, killed while dismantling a bomb near the Sufa crossing in Gaza. [2 others injured].

2000 December 31: Binyamin Zeev Kahane and his wife Talia Kahane, shot by snipers on the Ramallah bypass road. [5 of their children (2 months to 10 years) injured].

2001 January 5: Mordechai Cohen (34) of Hadera, found dead in the Caesarea industrial area.

2001 January 14: Ron Tzalah (32) of Kfar Yam in Gush Katif, shot near Kfar Yam.

2001 January 17: Ofir Rahum (16) of Ashkelon, shot 15 times near Ramallah.

2001 January 23: Motti Dayan (27) and Etgar Zeituny (34) of Tel Aviv, abducted in Tulkarem and executed.

2001 January 25: Akiva Pashkos (45) of Jerusalem, shot near the Atarot industrial zone north of Jerusalem.

2001 January 29: Arye Hershkowitz (55) of Ofra, shot near the Rama junction north of Jerusalem.

2001 February 1: Dr. Shmuel Gillis (42) of Carmei Tzur, shot near the Aroub refugee camp on the Jerusalem-Hebron highway.

2001 February 1: Lior Attiah (23) of Afula, shot near Jenin.

2001 February 4: Ishmael Abadyev (35) of Tirat Hacarmel, stabbed in Tirat Hacarmel.

2001 February 5: SSgt. Rujayah Salameh (23), shot near Rafah.

2001 February 11: Tzachi Sasson (35) of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim in Gush Etzion, shot near Tzurim.

2001 February 14: Simcha Shitrit (30) of Rishon Lezion, SSgt. Ofir Magidish (20) of Kiryat Malachi, Sgt. David Iluz (21) of Kiryat Malachi, Sgt. Julie Weiner (21) of Jerusalem, Sgt. Rachel Levi (19) of Ashkelon, Sgt. Kochava Polanski (19) of Ashkelon, Cpl. Alexander Manevich (18) of Ashkelon, Cpl. Yasmin Karisi (18) of Ashkelon, hit by bus near Holon. [25 others injured].

2001 February 26: Mordechai Shefer (55) of Kfar Sava, near Moshav Hagor.

2001 March 1: Claude Knap (29) of Tiberias, bombed in Wadi Ara. [9 others injured]

2001 March 4: Naftali Dean (85) of Tel Mond, Shlomit Ziv (58) of Netanya, Yevgenya Malchin (70) of Netanya, bombed in Netanya. [60 others injured].

2001 March 19: Baruch Cohen (59) of Efrat, shot near Gush Etzion.

2001 March 26: Shalhevet Pass (10 months) shot by snipers in Hebron.

2001 March 28: Eliran Rosenberg-Zayat (15) of Givat Shmuel and Naftali Lanzkorn (13) of Petah Tikva, bombed near the entrance to Kalkilya. [4 others injured].

2001 April 1: SSgt. Ya'akov Krenschel (23) of Nahariya, shot near Nablus.

2001 April 1: Dina Guetta (42) of Haifa, stabbed on Ha'atzmaut Street in Haifa. Her murder was the initiation rite into a terrorist cell apprehended in July.

2001 April 2: Sgt. Danny Darai (20) of Arad, shot by snipers at Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem.

2001 April 21: Stanislav Sandomirsky (38) of Beit Shemesh, mutilated and found in the trunk of his car near Ramallah.

2001 April 22: Dr. Mario Goldin (53) of Kfar Sava, bombed in Kfar Sava. [60 others injured].

2001 April 28: Sgt. Shlomo Elmakias (20) of Netanya, shot on the Wadi Ara highway in the Galilee. [4 others injured].

2001 April 28: Simcha Ron (60) of Nahariya, stabbed in Kfar Ba'aneh.

2001 May 1: Assaf Hershkowitz (30) of Ofra, shot between Ofra and Beit El.

2001 May 8: Arnaldo Agranionic (48), shot in Samaria.

2001 May 9: Yossi Ish-Ran (14) and Kobi Mandell (14) both of Tekoa, stoned to death in a cave about 200 meters from Tekoa.

2001 May 15: Idit Mizrahi (20) of Rimonim, shot as she drove with her father and brother on the Alon Highway to attend a family wedding.

2001 May 18: Tirza Polonsky (66) of Moshav Kfar Haim, Miriam Waxman (51) of Hadera, David Yarkoni (53) of Netanya, Yulia Tratiakova (21) of Netanya, Vladislav Sorokin (34) of Netanya, bombed in Netanya. [100 others injured].

2001 May 18: Lt. Yair Nebenzahl (22) of Neve Tzuf, shot north of Jerusalem. [His mother injured].

2001 May 23: Asher Iluz (33) of Modi'in, shot outside Ariel.

2001 May 25: Yosef Alfasi (50) of Rishon Letzion, burnt near Tulkarem.

2001 May 29: Gilad Zar (41) of Itamar, shot between Kedumim and Yizhar.

2001 May 29: Sara Blaustein (53) and Esther Alvan (20) of Efrat, shot near Neve Daniel.

2001 May 31: Zvi Shelef (63) of Mevo Dotan, shot north of Tulkarem.

2001 June 1: Marina Berkovizki (17), Mariana Medvedenko (16), Yelena Nelimov (18), Yulia Nelimov (16), Pvt. Diez Normanov (21), Liana Sakiyan (16) all of Tel Aviv, Aleksei Lupalu (16) and Sergei Panchenko (20) both of Ukraine, Roman Dezanshvili (21), Ilya Gutman (19), Irina Nepomneschi (16), Yevgenia Dorfman (15) all of Bat Yam, Raisa Nimrovsky (15) of Netanya, Anya Kazachkov (16), Simona Rodin (18), Irena Usdachi (18), Yael-Yulia Sklianik (15) all of Holon, Maria Tagilchev (14) of Netanya, Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir (15), Ori Shahar (32) and Jan Bloom (25) of Ramat Gan, bombed outside a disco near Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium. [120 others injured].

2001 June 11: Yehuda Shoham (5 months) of Shilo, killed by a rock thrown at the family's car near Shilo in Samaria.

2001 June 11: Boris Korover (59) of Homesh, car attack.

2001 June 14: Lt.Col. Yehuda Edri (45) of Ma'ale Adumim, shot by a Palestinian informant near Gush Etzion. [1 other injured].

2001 June 18: Dan Yehuda (35) of Homesh, shot between Homesh and Shavei Shomron. [1 other injured.]

2001 June 18: Doron Zisserman (38) of Einav, shot by sniper fire near Einav.

2001 June 20: Ilya Krivitz (62) of Homesh, shot near Silat a Dahar.

2001 June 22: Sgt. Aviv Iszak (19) of Kfar Saba and Sgt. Ofir Kit (19) of Jerusalem, bombed near Dugit.

2001 June 28: Ekaterina Weintraub (27) of Ganim, shot on the Jenin bypass road. [1 other injured].

2001 July 2: Aharon Obadyan (41) of Zichron Ya'akov, shot near Baka a Sharkia.

2001 July 2: Yair Har Sinai (51) of Susiya, shot.

2001 July 4: Eliahu Na'aman (32) of Petah Tikva, shot near Tulkarem.

2001 July 9: Capt. Shai Shalom Cohen (22) of Pardes Hanna, bombed south of Hebron. [1 other injured].

2001 July 12: David Cohen (28) of Betar Illit, shot in Kiryat Arba.

2001 July 13: Yehezkel Mualem (49) of Kiryat Arba, shot in Kiryat Arba while protesting a shooting attack in the area the previous day [see July 12].

2001 July 16: Cpl. Hanit Arami (19) and SSgt. Avi Ben Harush (20) both of Zichron Yaakov, bombed in Binyamina. [11 others injured].

2001 July 24: Yuri Gushchin (18) of Jerusalem, stabbed and shot in Ramallah.

2001 July 26: Ronen Landau (17) of Givat Ze'ev, shot in front of his father while returning home from Jerusalem.

2001 August 5: Tehiya Bloomberg (40) of Karnei Shomron (5 months pregnant), shot between Alfei Menashe and Karnei Shomron. [3 others injured, including her husband Shimon and daughter Tzippi].

2001 August 6: Yitzhak Snir (51) of Ra'anana, shot in Amman.

2001 August 7: Wael Ghanem (32) of Taibeh, shot near Kalkilya.2001 August 7: Zohar Shurgi (40) of Moshav Yafit, shot on the Trans-Samaria Highway.

2001 August 9: Tehila Maoz (18), Frieda Mendelsohn (62), Michal Raziel (16), Malka Roth (15), Lily Shimashvili (33), Tamara Shimashvili (8), Yocheved Shoshan (10) all of Jerusalem, Giora Balash (60) of Brazil, Zvika Golombek (26) of Carmiel, Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum (31) of U.S.A., Mordechai Schijveschuurder (43) and his wife Tzira Schijveschuurder (41) and their children Ra'aya Schijveschuurder (14), Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder (4) and Hemda Schijveschuurder (2) of Neria, bombed at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. [130 others injured].

2001 August 9: Aliza Malka (17) a student at Kibbutz Merav, shot at the kibbutz in Gilboa. [3 teenaged girls injured].

2001 August 25: Maj. Gil Oz (30) of Kfar Sava, SSgt. Kobi Nir (21) of Kfar Sava, Sgt. Tzahi Grabli (19) of Holon, shot at the IDF base in Gush Katif. [7 soldiers wounded].

2001 August 25: Yaniv Ben-Shalom (27) and Sharon Ben-Shalom (26) of Ofarim, and Sharon’s brother Doron Sviri (20) of Jerusalem, shot on the Jerusalem-Modi'in road. [Their children (1 and 2) were injured].

2001 August 26: Dov Rosman (58) of Netanya, shot near Zaita.

2001 August 27: Meir Lixenberg (38) of Itamar, shot between Har Bracha and Itamar.

2001 August 29: Oleg Sotnikov (35) of Ashdod, shot near Kutchin.

2001 August 30: Amos Tajouri (60) of Modi'in, shot in Na'alin.

2001 September 6: Lt. Erez Merhavi (23) of Moshav Tarum, shot near Kibbutz Bahan. [1 officer wounded].

2001 September 9: Ya'akov Hatzav (42) of Hamra and Sima Franko (24) of Beit She'an, shot near Adam Junction in the Jordan Valley.

2001 September 9: Dr. Yigal Goldstein (47) of Jerusalem, Morel Derfler (45) of Mevasseret Zion, and Sgt. Daniel Yifrah (19) of Jerusalem, bombed near the Nahariya train station in northern Israel. [90 others injured].

2001 September 11: Police Sgt. Tzachi David (19) of Tel-Aviv and SSgt. Andrei Zledkin (26) of Carmiel, shot near Kibbutz Bachan.

2001 September 12: Ruth Shua'i (46) of Alfei Menashe, shot near Habla.

2001 September 15: Meir Weisshaus (23) of Jerusalem, shot on the Ramot-French Hill road in northern Jerusalem.

2001 September 20: Sarit Amrani (26) of Nokdim, shot in front of her 3 children near Tekoa. [Her husband was injured].

2001 September 24: Salit Sheetrit (28) of Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, shot near Shadmot Mehola.

2001 September 26: Zvia Pinhas (64) of Moshav Maor, stabbed in her home.

2001 October 2: Cpl. Liron Harpaz (19) of Alei Sinai and Assaf Yitzhaki (20) of Lod, killed by artillery and grenades in Alei Sinai. [15 others injured].

2001 October 4: Sgt. Tali Ben-Armon (19) of Pardesia, Haim Ben-Ezra (76) of Givat Hamoreh, Sergei Freidin (20) of Afula, shot. [13 others injured].

2001 October 5: Hananya Ben-Avraham (46) of Elad, shot near Avnei Hefetz.

2001 October 7: Yair Mordechai (43) of Kibbutz Sheluhot, bombed near the kibbutz.

2001 October 17: Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze'evy (75), shot outside his room at the Jerusalem Hyatt Hotel.

2001 October 18: Lior Kaufman (30) of Ramat Sharon, shot near the Mar Saba monastery. [2 others injured].

2001 October 28: SSgt. Yaniv Levy (22) of Zichron Yaakov, shot near Kibbutz Metzer.

2001 October 28: Ayala Levy (39) of Elyachin, Smadar Levy (23) of Hadera, Lydia Marko (63) of Givat Ada, Sima Menahem (30) of Zichron Yaakov, shot in Hadera. [40 others injured].

2001 November 2: SSgt. Raz Mintz (19) of Kiryat Motzkin, shot near Ofra.

2001 November 4: Shoshana Ben Ishai (16) of Betar Illit and Menashe Regev (14) of Jerusalem, shot in northern Jerusalem. [45 others injured].

2001 November 6: Capt. Eyal Sela (39) of Moshav Nir Banim, shot on the southern Nablus bypass road.

2001 November 9: Hadas Abutbul (39) of Mevo Dotan, shot in Shaked.

2001 November 11: Aharon Ussishkin (50), shot at Moshav Kfar Hess.

2001 November 24: SSgt. Barak Madmon (26) of Holon, artillery fire in Gush Katif.

2001 November 27: Noam Gozovsky (23) of Moshav Ramat Zvi, and Michal Mor (25) of Afula, shot in Afula. [10 others injured].

2001 November 27: Etty Fahima (45) of Netzer Hazani, killed in grenade attack near Gush Katif. [3 others injured].

2001 November 29: 1st Sgt. Yaron Pikholtz (20) of Ramat Gan, shot near Baka el-Sharkiya. [1 soldier wounded].

2001 November 29: Inbal Weiss (22) of Zichron Ya'akov, Yehiav Elshad (28) of Tel-Aviv, Samuel Milshevsky (45) of Kfar Sava, bombed near Hadera. [9 others injured].

2001 December 1: Assaf Avitan (15), Michael Moshe Dahan (21), Israel Ya'akov Danino (17), Yosef El-Ezra (18), Sgt. Nir Haftzadi (19), Golan Turgeman (15), Guy Vaknin (19), Moshe Yedid-Levy (19), Ido Cohen (17) all of Jerusalem, Yuri Korganov (20) of Ma'alei Adumim, Adam Weinstein (14) of Givon Hahadasha, bombed on Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem. [180 others injured].

2001 December 2: Prof. Baruch Singer (51) of Gedera, shot near Elei Sinai.

2001 December 2: Tatiana Borovik (23), Mara Fishman (51), Ina Frenkel (60), Ronen Kahalon (30), Samion Kalik (64), Mark Khotimliansky (75), Cecilia Kozamin (76), Yelena Lomakin (62), Yitzhak Ringel (41), Rassim Safulin (78), Leah Strick (73), Faina Zabiogailu (64), Mikhail Zaraisky (71) all of Haifa, Riki Hadad (30) of Yokne'am, Rosaria Reyes (42) of Philippines, bombed in Haifa. [40 others injured].

2001 December 12: Yair Amar (13), Esther Avraham (42), Moshe Gutman (40), Yirmiyahu Salem (48), Israel Sternberg (46), Haim Chiprot (52) [died 2002 March 25] all of Emmanuel, Police CWO Yoel Bienenfeld (35) of Moshav Tel Shahar, Avraham Nahman Nitzani (17) of Betar Illit, David Tzarfati (38) of Ginot Shomron, Hananya Tzarfati (32) of Kfar Saba, Ya'akov Tzarfati (64) of Kfar Saba, killed by grenades, bomb and gunfire near Emmanuel. [30 others injured].

2001 December 17: Zion Ohana (45) of Adam, beaten to death in Jaba.

2001 December 25: Sgt. Michael Sitbon (23) of Beit Shemesh, shot near Beit She'an. [4 soldiers wounded].

2002 January 9: Maj. Ashraf Hawash (28) of Beit Zarzir, Sgt. Maj. Ibrahim Hamadieh (23) of Rehaniya, Sgt. Maj. Hana Abu-Ghanem (25) of Haifa, SSgt. Mofid Sawaid (25) of Abu Snan, killed by grenade, explosives and gunfire near Kerem Shalom. [2 soldiers wounded].

2002 January 14: Sgt. Elad Abu-Gani (19) of Tiberias, shot near Kuchin. [1 officer wounded].

2002 January 15: Avraham Boaz (71) of U.S.A., kidnapped in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was found in a car in Beit Sahur.

2002 January 15: Yoela Chen (45) of Givat Ze'ev, shot near Givat Ze'ev. [Her aunt was injured].

2002 January 16: Shahada Dadis (30) of Beit Hanina, shot south of Jenin.

2002 January 17: Edward Bakshayev (48) of Or Akiva, Anatoly Bakshayev (63) of Or Akiva, Aharon Ben Yisrael-Ellis (32) of Ra'anana, Dina Binayev (48) of Ashkelon, Boris Melikhov (56) of Sderot, Avi Yazdi (25) of Hadera, shot during a bat mitzvah simcha in Hadera. [35 others injured].

2002 January 22: Sarah Hamburger (79) and Svetlana Sandler (56) both of Jerusalem, shot in Jerusalem, [40 others injured].

2002 January 27: Pinhas Tokatli (81) of Jerusalem, bombed in Jerusalem by a female terrorist. [150 others injured].

2002 February 6: Miri Ohana (45) of Beit She'an and her daughter Yael (11) shot in their home. SSgt. Maj. Moshe Majos Meconen (33) of Beit She'an, shot in the ensuing gun battle.

2002 February 8: Moranne Amit (25) of Kibbutz Kfar Hanasi, stabbed by four Palestinians (aged 14 to 16) on the Sherover Promenade in Jerusalem.

2002 February 9: Atala Lipobsky (78) of Ma'ale Ephraim, shot in front of her son on the Trans-Samaria Highway.

2002 February 10: Lt. Keren Rothstein (20) of Ashkelon and Cpl. Aya Malachi (18) of Moshav Ein Habesor, shot at the IDF Southern Command Base in Be'er Sheva. [4 others injured].

2002 February 15: SSgt. Lee Nahman Akunis (20) of Holon, shot north of Ramallah.

2002 February 16: Nehemia Amar (15), Keren Shatsky (15), Rachel Thaler (16) [died February 27] all of Ginot Shomron, bombed in Karnei Shomron. [30 others injured].

2002 February 18: Officer Ahmed Mazarib (32) of Beit Zarzir, bombed on the Ma'ale Adumim-Jerusalem road.

2002 February 18: Ahuva Amergi (30) of Ganei Tal, shot in Gush Katif. Maj. Mor Elraz (25) of Kiryat Ata and SSgt. Amir Mansouri (21) of Kiryat Arba, were killed in the ensuing gun battle. [1 other injured].

2002 February 19: Lt. Moshe Eini (21) of Petah Tikva, SSgt. Benny Kikis (20) of Carmiel, SSgt. Mark Podolsky (20) of Tel Aviv, SSgt. Erez Turgeman (20) of Jerusalem, SSgt. Tamir Atsmi (21) of Kiryat Ono, SSgt. Michael Oxsman (21) of Haifa, shot near Ramallah. [1 soldier wounded].

2002 February 21: Minhal Dragma (22) of Baka al-Garbiya, shot near Baka al-Sharkiya.

2002 February 22: Valery Ahmir (59) of Beit Shemesh, shot on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem.

2002 February 25: Avraham Fish (65) and Aharon Gorov (46) both of Nokdim, shot near Bethlehem. [Fish's daughter (9 months pregnant) was seriously injured but delivered a baby girl].

2002 February 25: Officer Galit Arbiv (21) of Nesher, shot in northern Jerusalem. [8 others injured].

2002 February 27: Gad Rejwan (34) of Jerusalem, shot in the Atarot industrial area.

2002 February 28: SSgt. Haim Bachar (20) of Tel Aviv, shot in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.

2002 March 1: Sgt. Ya'acov Avni (20) of Kiryat Ata, shot by snipers in the Jenin refugee camp.

2002 March 2: Police Chief-Supt. Moshe Dayan (46) of Ma'aleh Adumim, shot near the Mar Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert.

2002 March 2: Shlomo Nehmad (40) and his wife Gafnit Nehmad (32) and their daughters Shiraz (7) and Liran (3) of Rishon Lezion, Tzofia Ya'arit Eliyahu (23) and her son Ya'akov Avraham (7 months) of Jerusalem, Lidor Ilan (12) and his sister Oriah (18 months) of Rishon Lezion, Avi Hazan (37) of Moshav Adora, Shaul Nehmad (15) and his brother Avraham Eliahu Nehmad (7) [died June 20] of Rishon Lezion, bombed in Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem at a bar mitzvah simcha. [50 others injured].

2002 March 3: Capt. Ariel Hovav (25) of Eli, Lt. David Damelin (29) of Kibbutz Metzar, 1st Sgt. Rafael Levy (42) of Rishon Lezion, Sgt. Maj. Avraham Ezra (38) of Kiryat Bialik, Sgt. Maj. Eran Gad (24) of Rishon Letzion, Sgt. Maj. Yochai Porat (26) of Kfar Sava, Sgt. Maj. Kfir Weiss (24) of Beit Shemesh, Sergei Birmov (33) of Ariel, Vadim Balagula (32) of Ariel, Didi Yitzhak (66) of Eli, shot near Ofra. [6 others injured].

2002 March 3: Sgt. Steven Kenigsberg (19) of Hod HaSharon, shot near the Kissufim crossing. [4 soldiers wounded].

2002 March 5: Officer FSM Salim Barakat (33) of Yarka, Yosef Habi (52) of Herzliya, Eli Dahan (53) of Lod, shot in Tel Aviv. [30 others injured].

2002 March 5: Devorah Friedman (45) of Efrat, shot on the Bethlehem bypass tunnel road. [Her husband was injured].

2002 March 5: Maharatu Tagana (85) of Upper Nazareth, bombed in Afula.

2002 March 7: Arik Krogliak of Beit El, Tal Kurtzweil of Bnei Brak, Asher Marcus of Jerusalem, Eran Picard of Jerusalem, Ariel Zana of Jerusalem (all aged 18) shot in Atzmona. [23 others injured].

2002 March 8: SSgt. Edward Korol (20) of Ashdod, shot by snipers in Tulkarem.

2002 March 9: Avia Malka (9 months) of South Afrika, and Israel Yihye (27) of Bnei Brak, killed by grenade and gunfire in Netanya. [50 others injured].

2002 March 9: Limor Ben-Shoham (27), Livnat Dvash (28), Tali Eliyahu (26), Dan Imani (23), Orit Ozerov (28), Avraham Haim Rahamim (28) all of Jerusalem, Nir Borochov (22) and Uri Felix (25) of Givat Ze'ev, Danit Dagan (25) of Tel Aviv, Natanel Kochavi (31) of Kiryat Ata, Baruch Lerner (29) of Eli, bombed in Rehavia, Jerusalem. [54 others injured].

2002 March 10: SSgt. Kobi Eichelboim (21), shot near Netzarim.

2002 March 12: Eyal Lieberman (42) of Tzoran, shot near Modi'in. [1 other injured].

2002 March 12: Yehudit Cohen (33) of Shlomi, Ofer Kanarick (44) of Moshav Betzet, Alexei Kotman (29) of Kibbutz Beit Hashita, Lynne Livne (49) and her daughter Atara (15) of Kibbutz Hanita, Lt. German Rozhkov (25) of Kiryat Shmona, shot between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba. [7 others injured].

2002 March 13: Lt. Gil Badihi (21) of Nataf, shot in Ramallah.

2002 March 17: Noa Auerbach (18) of Kfar Sava, shot in Kfar Sava. [16 others injured].

2002 March 19: 1st Lt. Tal Zemach (20) of Kibbutz Hulda, shot in the Jordan Valley. [3 soldiers wounded].

2002 March 20: Sgt. Michael Altfiro (19) of Pardes Hanna, SSgt. Shimon Edri (20) of Pardes Hanna, SWO Meir Fahima (40) of Hadera, Cpl. Aharon Revivo (19) of Afula, Alon Goldenberg (28) of Tel Aviv, Mogus Mahento (75) of Holon, Bella Schneider (53) of Hadera, bombed at the Musmus junction on Highway 65 near Afula. [30 others injured].

2002 March 21: Gadi Shemesh (34) and Tzipi Shemesh (29) of Jerusalem, Yitzhak Cohen (48) of Modi'in, bombed in Jerusalem. [86 others injured].

2002 March 24: Esther Kleiman (23) of Neve Tzuf, shot near Ramallah.

2002 March 24: Avi Sabag (24) of Otniel, shot near Hebron.

2002 March 26: Maj. Cengiz Soytunc of Turkey and Catherine Berruex of Switzerland, members of the TIPH observer force in Hebron, shot near Halhul.

2002 March 27: David Anichovitch (70), Shimon Ben-Aroya (42), Andre Fried (47), Idit Fried (47), Ami Hamami (44), Dvora Karim (73), Michael Karim (78), Marianne Myriam Lehmann Zaoui (77), Furuk Na'imi (62), Chanah Rogan (92) all of Netanya, Shula Abramovitch (63) of Holon, Sgt. Maj. Avraham Beckerman (25) of Ashdod, Miriam Gutenzgan (82) of Ramat Gan, Perla Hermele (79) of Sweden, Yehudit Korman (70) of Ramat HaSharon, Lola Levkovitch (85) of Jerusalem, Irit Rashel (45) of Moshav Herev La'et, SSgt. Sivan Vider (20) of Bekaot, Ernest Weiss (79) and Eva Weiss (75) of Petah Tikva, Eliahu Nakash (85) of Tel Aviv, Yulia Talmi (87) of Tel Aviv, Meir Yakobovitch (76) of Holon, Zee'v Vider (50) of Moshav Bekaot, Alter Britvich (88) and his wife Frieda Britvich (86) of Netanya, Sarah Levy-Hoffman (89) [died April 7] of Tel Aviv, Anna Yakobovitch (78) [died April 11] of Holon, Eliezer Korman (74) [died May 5] of Ramat HaSharon, Clara Rosenberger (77) [died June 25] of Jerusalem, bombed in the Park Hotel, Netanya during Pesach seder. [140 others injured].

2002 March 28: David Gavish (50) and his wife Rachel Gavish (50) and their son Avraham Gavish (20), Rachel's father Yitzhak Kanner (83) all of Elon Moreh, shot in their home.

2002 March 29: Tuvia Wisner (79) of Petah Tikva and Michael Orlansky (70) of Tel Aviv, shot in Neztarim.

2002 March 29: Rachel Levy (17) and Haim Smadar (55) both of Jerusalem, bombed by a female terrorist in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. [28 others injured].

2002 March 30: Police Sgt. Maj. Constantine Danilov (23) of Or Akiva, shot in Baka al-Garbiyeh.

2002 March 30: Rachel Charhi (36) of Bat-Yam, bombed in Tel Aviv. [30 others injured].

2002 March 31: Suheil Adawi (32) of Turan, Dov Chernobroda (67), Shimon Koren (55) and his sons Ran Koren (18) and Gal Koren (15), Moshe Levin (52), Danielle Menchel (22), Orly Ofir (16), Aviel Ron (54) and his son Ofer Ron (18) and daughter Anat Ron (21), Ya'akov Shani (53), Adi Shiran (17), Daniel Carlos Wegman (50) all of Haifa, Carlos Yerushalmi (52) of Karkur, bombed in Haifa. [40 others injured].

2002 April 1: Sgt. Maj. Ofir Roth (22) of Gan Yoshiya, shot by snipers near Har Homa, Jerusalem.

2002 April 1: Officer Tomer Mordechai (19) of Tel Aviv, bombed in Jerusalem.

2002 April 6: SSgt. Nisan Avraham (26) of Lod, shot near Rafiah Yam. [5 soldiers wounded].

2002 April 9: Maj. Oded Golomb (22) of Kibbutz Nir David, Capt. Ya'akov Azoulai (30) of Migdal Ha'emek, Lt. Dror Bar (28) of Kibbutz Einat, Lt. Eyal Yoel (28) of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, 1st Sgt. Tiran Arazi (33) of Hadera, 1st Sgt. Yoram Levy (33) of Elad, 1st Sgt. Avner Yaskov (34) of Be'er Sheva, Sgt. 1st Class Ronen Alshochat (27) of Ramle, Gt. 1st Class Eyal Eliyahu Azouri (27) of Ramat Gan, Sgt. 1st Class Amit Busidan (22) of Bat Yam, Sgt. 1st Class Menashe Hava (23) of Kfar Sava, Sgt. 1st Class Shmuel Dani Mayzlish (27) of Moshav Hemed, Sgt. 1st Class Eyal Zimmerman (22) of Ra'anana, killed by explosives and gunfire in Jenin. [7 others injured].

2002 April 9: Maj. Assaf Assoulin (30) of Tel Aviv, shot in Nablus.

2002 April 9: SSgt. Gedaliah Mellick (21) of Jerusalem, bombed in Jenin. [12 soldiers wounded].

2002 April 10: Avinoam Alfia (26) of Kiryat Ata, Sgt. Maj. Shlomi Ben Haim (27) of Kiryat Yam, Sgt. Maj. Nir Danieli (24) of Kiryat Ata, Police Lance Cpl. Keren Franco (18) of Kiryat Yam, Sgt. Maj. Ze'ev Hanik (24) of Karmiel, Police Lance Cpl. Noa Shlomo (18) of Nahariya, WO Shimshon Stelkol (33) of Kiryat Yam, Sgt. Michael Weissman (21) of Kiryat Yam, bombed near Kibbutz Yagur. [22 others injured].

2002 April 12: Police SSgt. David Smirnoff (22) of Ashdod, shot near the Erez crossing. [8 others injured, including 4 Palestinians].

2002 April 12: Nissan Cohen (57), Rivka Fink (75), Suheila Hushi (48) and Yelena Konrab (43) all of Jerusalem, Ling Chang Mai (34) and Chai Siang Yang (32) of China, bombed at Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem by female terrorist. [104 others injured].

2002 April 20: Police SSgt. Uriel Bar-Maimon (21) of Ashkelon, shot near the Erez industrial park.

2002 April 22: Sgt. Maj. Nir Krichman (22) of Hadera, shot in Asira a-Shamaliya.

2002 April 27: Danielle Shefi (5), Arik Becker (22), Katrina Greenberg (45) and Ya'acov Katz (51) all of Adora, shot in their respective homes, mostly in their bedrooms. [7 others injured].

2002 May 7: Esther Bablar (54) and Yitzhak Bablar (57) both of Bat Yam, Avi Bayaz (26) of Nes Ziona, Regina Malka Boslan (62) of Jaffa, Edna Cohen (61) and Rassan Sharouk (60) both of Holon, Dalia Masa (56) of Nahalat Yehuda, Anat Teremforush (36) of Ashdod, Rafael Haim (64), Pnina Hikri (60), Nawa Hinawi (51), Shoshana Magmari (51) all of Tel Aviv, Rahamim Kimchy (58), Nir Lovatin (31), Israel Shikar (49) all of Rishon Lezion, killed in a building collapse after a bombing in Rishon Lezion. [55 others injured].

2002 May 12: Nisan Dolinger (43) of Pe'at Sadeh, shot in southern Gaza.

2002 May 19: Yosef Haviv (70), Victor Tatrinov (63) and Arkady Vieselman (40) all of Netanya, bombed in Netanya. [59 others injured].

2002 May 22: Elmar Dezhabrielov (16) and Gary Tauzniaski (65) both of Rishon Lezion, bombed in Rishon Lezion. [40 others injured].

2002 May 27: Ruth Peled (56) of Herzliya, and her granddaughter Sinai Keinan (14 months) of Petah Tikva, bombed in Petah Tikva. [37 others injured].

2002 May 28: Albert Maloul (50) of Jerusalem, shot on the Ramallah bypass road. [His cousin was injured].

2002 May 28: Netanel Riachi (17) of Kochav Ya'akov, Gilad Stiglitz (14) of Yakir, Avraham Siton (17) of Shilo, shot while playing basketball at their school. [2 other students injured].

2002 June 5: Cpl. Liron Avitan (19), Cpl. Dennis Blumin (20), SSgt. Eliran Buskila (21), SSgt. Zvi Gelberd (20), Sgt. Violetta Hizgayev (20), SSgt. Ganadi Issakov (21), Cpl. Vladimir Morari (19), Sgt. Dotan Reisel (22), Zion Agmon (50) all of Hadera, Cpl. Avraham Barzilai (19), Sgt. Sariel Katz (21), Sgt. Yigal Nedipur (21), SSgt. David Stanislavksy (23) all of Netanya, Sgt. Sivan Wiener (19) of Holon, Adi Dahan (17) of Afula, Shimon Timsit (35) of Tel Aviv, Eliyahu Timsit (32) [whose body was identified in December 2002] of Sderot, killed when a car bomb collided with their bus at the Megiddo junction near Afula. [38 others injured].2002 June 6: Erez Rund (18) of Ofra, shot near Ofra.

2002 June 8: SSgt. Eyal Sorek (23) and his wife Yael Sorek (24) (9 months pregnant) of Carmei Tzur, SSgt. Maj. Shalom Mordechai (35) of Nahariya, shot in the Gush Etzion bloc of Carmei Tzur. [5 others injured].

2002 June 11: Hadar Hershkowitz (14) of Herzliya, bombed in Herzliya. [15 others injured].

2002 June 15: Lt. Anatoly Krasik (22) of Petah Tikva, SSgt. Haim Yehezkel Gutman (22) of Beit El, SSgt. Alexei Gladkov (20) of Be'er Sheva, shot near Alei Sinai and Dugit. [4 others injured].

2002 June 18: Boaz Aluf (54), Shani Avi-Zedek (15), Leah Baruch (59), Mendel Bereson (72), Rafael Berger (28), Michal Biazi (24), Tatiana Braslavsky (41), Galila Bugala (11), Raisa Dikstein (67), Dr. Moshe Gottlieb (70), Baruch Gruani (60), Orit Hayla (21), Helena Ivan (63), Shiri Negari (21), Gila Nakav (55), Yelena Plagov (42), Liat Yagen (24), Rahamim Zidkiyahu (51) all of Jerusalem, Iman Kabha (26) of Barta, bombed at the Patt Junction from Gilo. [74 others injured].

2002 June 19: Noa Alon (60) of Ofra, Gal Eisenman (5) of Ma'ale Adumim, Michal Franklin (22) of Jerusalem, Tatiana Igelski (43) of Moldova, Hadassah Jungreis (20) of Migdal Haemek, Gila Sara Kessler (19) of Eli, Shmuel Yerushalmi (17) of Shilo, bombed at French Hill, Jerusalem. [50 others injured].

2002 June 20: Rachel Shabo (40) and her sons Neria (16), Zvika (12) and Avishai (5) and her neighbour who came to their aid Yosef Twito (31), shot when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar. [2 children and 2 soldiers injured].

2002 July 16: Galila Ades (42), Yonatan Gamliel (16), Keren Kashani (29), Gal Shilon (32) and his daughter Sarah Tiferet Shilon (8 months), her grandmother Zilpa Kashi (65), Ilana Siton (35), Yocheved Ben-Hanan (21) all of Emmanuel, bombed en route to Emmanuel. [20 others injured, including Yehudit Weinberg, whose baby was born prematurely and died the next day].

2002 July 17: Lt. Elad Grenadier (21) of Haifa, shot while apprehending the July 16 terrorists in Emmanuel. [3 others injured].

2002 July 17: Adrian Andres (30) of Romania, Boris Shamis (25) of Tel Aviv, Xu Heng Yong (39) and Li Bin (33) [died July 24] both of China, Dmitri Pundikov (33) [died July 25] of Bat-Yam, bombed in Tel Aviv. [40 others injured].

2002 July 25: Rabbi Elimelech Shapira (43) of Peduel, shot near Alei Zahav. [1 other injured].

2002 July 26: SSgt. Elazar Lebovitch (21) of Hebron, Rabbi Yosef Dikstein (45) and his wife Hannah Dikstein (42) and their son Shuv'el Zion (9) of Psagot, shot near Hebron. [2 other children injured].

2002 July 30: Shlomo Odesser (60) and his brother Mordechai Odesser (52) both of Tapuach, shot in Jama'in.

2002 July 31: David Diego Ladowski (29), Levina Shapira (53), Daphna Spruch (61) [died August 10], Revital Barashi (30) [died August 13] all of Jerusalem, Marla Bennett (24), Benjamin Blutstein (25), Dina Carter (37), Janis Ruth Coulter (36), David Gritz (24) all of U.S.A., bombed at the Hebrew University's Mt. Scopus campus cafeteria. [85 others injured].

2002 August 1: Shani Ladani (27) of Moshav Olash, body found shot and bound near the Green Line.

2002 August 4: Mordechai Yehuda Friedman (24) of Ramat Beit Shemesh, Sari Goldstein (21) of Carmiel, Maysoun Amin Hassan (19) of Sajur, Marlene Menahem (22) of Moshav Safsufa, Sgt. Maj. Roni Ghanem (28) of Maghar, Sgt. Yifat Gavrieli (19) of Mitzpe Adi, Sgt. Omri Goldin (20) of Mitzpe Aviv, Adelina Kononen (37) and Rebecca Roga (40) of Philippines, bombed at the Meron junction between Haifa and Safed. [50 others injured].

2002 August 4: Yekutiel Amitai (34) of Jerusalem and Nizal Awassat (52) of Jabel Mukaber, shot near the Damascus Gate of the Old City, Jerusalem. [17 others injured].

2002 August 5: Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital Wolanski (27) of Eli, shot on the Ramallah-Nablus road near Eli. [Their child (3) was injured].

2002 August 10: Yafit Herenstein (31) of Moshav Mechora, shot outside her home. [Her husband was injured].

2002 August 20: SSgt. Kevin Cohen (19) of Petah Tikva, shot by snipers near Khan Yunis.

2002 September 5: Lt. Malik Grifat (24) of Zarzir, shot near Nisanit. [1 soldier wounded].

2002 September 18: David Buhbut (67) of Ma'ale Adumim, his burnt and shot body found near el-Azzariya.

2002 September 18: Yosef Ajami (36) of Jerusalem, shot near Mevo Dotan. [1 other injured].

2002 September 18: Police Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah (21) of Elyachin, bombed at the Umm al Fahm junction. [3 others injured].

2002 September 19: Solomon Hoenig (79) of Tel Aviv, Yossi Mamistavlov (39) of Or Yehuda, Yaffa Shemtov (49) of Tel Aviv, Rosanna Siso (63) of Gan Yavneh, Ofer Zinger (29) of Moshav Pazael, Jonathan Jesner (19) of Scotland, bombed on a bus near the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv. [70 others injured].

2002 September 23: Shlomo Yitzhak Shapira (48) of Jerusalem, shot near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. [3 of his children injured].

2002 September 30: SSgt. Ari Weiss (21) of Ra'anana, shot in the Nablus casbah. [1 soldier wounded].

2002 October 8: Oded Wolk (51) of Modi'in, shot south of Hebron. [3 others injured].

2002 October 10: Sa'ada Aharon (71) of Ramat Gan, bombed on a bus from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway. [30 others injured].

2002 October 21: Osnat Abramov (16) of Holon, Indelou Ashati (54) of Hadera, SSgt. Liat Ben-Ami (20) of Haifa, Ofra Burger (56) of Hod HaSharon, Cpl. Ilona Hanukayev (20) of Hadera, Suad Jaber (23) of Taibe, Iris Lavi (68) of Netanya, Sgt. Maj. Eliezer Moskovitch (40) of Petah Tikva, SSgt. Nir Nahum (20) of Carmiel, Sgt. Esther Pesachov (19) of Givat Olga, SSgt. Aiman Sharuf (20) of Ussfiyeh, Sergei Shavchuk (35) of Afula, Anat Shimshon (33) of Ra'anana, Cpl. Sharon Tubol (19) of Arad, bombed on a bus along Wadi Ara toward Hadera. [50 others injured].

2002 October 27: Maj. Tamir Masad (41) of Ben Shemen, Lt. Matan Zagron (22) of Itamar, Sgt. Maj. Amihud Hasid (32) of Tapuah, bombed at the entrance to Ariel while trying to prevent a terrorist from detonating the bomb. [20 others injured].

2002 October 29: Orna Eshel (53), Linoy Saroussi (14), Hadas Turgeman (14) all of Hermesh, shot in northern Samaria. [2 others injured].

2002 November 4: Julio Pedro Magram (51) of Kfar Sava and Gastón Perpiñal (15) of Ra'anana, bombed at a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. [70 others injured].

2002 November 6: Assaf Tzfira (18) of B'dolah and Amos Sa'ada (52) of Rafiah Yam, shot at Pe'at Sadeh.

2002 November 10: Yitzhak Dori (44), Revital Ohayon (34) and her sons Matan (5) and Noam (4) all of Kibbutz Metzer, Tirza Damari (42) of Elyachin, shot at the kibbutz.

2002 November 15: Col. Dror Weinberg (38) of Jerusalem, Officer Supt. Samih Sweidan (31) of Arab al-Aramsha, Sgt. Tomer Nov (19) of Ashdod, Sgt. Gad Rahamim (19) of Kiryat Malachi, SSgt. Netanel Machluf (19) of Hadera, SSgt. Yeshayahu Davidov (20) of Netanya, Sgt. Igor Drobitsky (20) of Nahariya, Cpl. David Marcus (20) of Ma'aleh Adumim, Lt. Dan Cohen (22) of Jerusalem, Yitzhak Buanish (46), Alexander Zwitman (26), Alexander Dohan (33) all of Kiryat Arba, killed by grenades and gunfire as worshipers walked home from Sabbath prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Most of the officers were killed in an ambush as they pursued the terrorists. [15 others injured].

2002 November 18: Esther Galia (48) of Kochav Hashahar, shot near Rimonim.

2002 November 21: Hodaya Asraf (13), Marina Bazarski (46), Hadassah Ben-David (32), Sima Novak (56), Kira Perlman (67) and her grandson Ilan Perlman (8), Yafit Ravivo (14), Ella Sharshevsky (44) and her son Michael Sharshevsky (16), Dikla Zino (22) all of Jerusalem, Mircea Varga (25) of Romania, bombed on a bus in the Kiryat Menahem neighbourhood of Jerusalem. [50 others injured].

2002 November 28: Haim Amar (56), Ehud Avitan (54), Mordechai Avraham (44), Ya'acov Lary (35), David Peretz (48) all of Beit She'an, Shaul Zilberstein (36) of Upper Nazareth, killed by grenades and gunfire at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an during the Likud primary. [40 others injured].

2002 December 20: Rabbi Yitzhak Arama (40) of Netzer Hazani, shot on the Kissufim corridor road while driving with his wife and six children to attend a pre-wedding Sabbath celebration in Afula.

2002 December 27: SSgt. Noam Apter (23) of Shilo, Pvt. Yehuda Bamberger (20) of Karnei Shomron, Gavriel Hoter (17) of Alonei Habashan, Zvi Zieman (18) of Reut, shot while serving the Shabbat meal to 100 students in Otniel. [10 others injured].

2003 January 2: Massoud Makhluf Alon (72) of Menahemiya, his burnt body was found in his car in the northern Jordan Valley.

2003 January 5: Moshe Aharfi (60), Andrei Friedman (30), Hannah Haimov (53), Ramin Nasibov (25) all of Tel Aviv, Meir Haim (74), SSgt. Mazal Orkobi (20), Ilanit Peled (32) all of Azor, Mordechai Evioni (52), Viktor Shebayev (62), Amiram Zmora (55) all of Holon, Avi Kotzer (43) of Bat Yam, Boris Tepalshvili (51) of Yehud, Sapira Shoshana Yulzari-Yaffe (46) of Bat Yam, Lilya Zibstein (33) of Haifa, Igor Zobokov (32) of Bat Yam, Krassimir Mitkov Angelov (32) of Bulgaria, Steven Arthur Cromwell (43) of Ghana, Ivan Gaptoniak (46) of Ukraine, Ion Nicolae (34) and Mihai Sabau (38) of Romania,
Guo Ai Ping (47), Li Pei Zhong (41), Zhang Min Min (53) all of China, bombed near the old Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv. [120 others injured].

2003 January 12: Eli Biton (48) of Moshav Gadish, shot near his home. [4 others injured].

2003 January 12: Sgt. Mikhail Kazakov (34) of Jerusalem, shot near the Negev town of Nitzana.

2003 January 17: Netanel Ozeri (34) of Kiryat Arba, shot in his home. [3 others, including his daughter (5) injured].

2003 February 6: 2nd Lt. Amir Ben-Aryeh (21) of Maccabim, and SSgt. Idan Suzin (20) of Kiryat Tivon, shot near Nablus. [2 soldiers wounded].

2003 February 11: Maj. Shahar Shmul (24) of Jerusalem, shot by snipers near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem while checking a suspicious vehicle.

2003 March 5: Maryam Atar (27), Smadar Firstater (16), Mordechai Hershko (41), Tom Hershko (15), Meital Katav (20), Elizabeth Katzman (17), Tal Kehrmann (17), SSgt. Eliyahu Laham (22), Abigail Litle (14), Yuval Mendellevich (13), Mark Takash (54), Asaf Zur (17), Anatoly Biryakov (20), Moran Shushan (20) all of Haifa, Kamar Abu Hamed (12) of Daliat al-Carmel, Daniel Haroush (16) of Safed, SSgt. Be'eri Oved (21) of Rosh Pina, bombed on a bus in the Carmel section of Haifa en route to Haifa University. [53 others injured].

2003 March 7: Rabbi Eli Horowitz (52) and his wife Dina Horowitz (50) of Kiryat Arba, shot in their home. [5 others injured].

2003 March 10: SSgt. Tomer Ron (20) of Moshav Moledet, shot on the road between the Cave of the Patriarchs and Kiryat Arba. [4 soldiers wounded].

2003 March 12: SSgt. Assaf Moshe Fuchs (21) of Kibbutz Gvat, shot in Saida. [1 soldier wounded].

2003 March 18: Sgt. Maj. Ami Cohen (27) of Netanya, shot south of Bethlehem. [1 soldier wounded].

2003 March 19: Zion Boshirian (51) of Mevo Dotan, shot while driving between Mevo Dotan and Shaked.

2003 April 10: SSgt. Yigal Lifshitz (20) of Rishon Lezion, SSgt. Ofer Sharabi (21) of Givat Shmuel, shot near Bekaot. [9 others injured].

2003 April 15: Lt. Daniel Mandel (24) of Alon Shvut, shot in Nablus. [1 soldier wounded].

2003 April 15: Zachar Rahamin Hanukayev (39) of Sderot, Ahmed Salah Kara (20) of Shuafat, shot at the Karni industrial zone crossing. [4 others injured].

2003 April 20: Cpl. Lior Ziv (19) of Holon, shot while photographing a Hamas smuggling tunnel in Rafah. [3 others injured].

2003 April 24: Alexander Kostyuk (23) of Bat Yam, bombed outside the train station in Kfar Sava. [13 others injured].

2003 April 30: Ran Baron (23) and Dominique Caroline Hass (29) both of Tel Aviv, Yanai Weiss (46) of Holon, bombed at a beachfront pub in Tel Aviv by 2 British-Palestinian terrorists. [60 others injured].

2003 May 5: Gideon Lichterman (27) of Ahiya, shot near Shvut Rachel. [2 others, including his daughter Moriah (6) injured].

2003 May 11: Zion David (53) of Givat Ze'ev, shot near Ofra.

2003 May 17: Gadi Levy (37) and his wife Dina (31) of Kiryat Arba, bombed in Hebron.

2003 May 18: Olga Brenner (52), Yitzhak Moyal (64), Nelly Perov (55), Marina Tsahivershvili (44), Shimon Ustinsky (68), Roni Yisraeli (34) all of Pisgat Ze'ev, Ghalab Tawil (42) of Shuafat, bombed on a bus near French Hill, Jerusalem. [20 others injured]. A second bomber detonated his bomb without casualties when intercepted by police.

2003 May 19: Kiryl Shremko (22) of Afula, Hassan Ismail Tawatha (41) of Jisr a-Zarqa, Avi Zerihan (36) of Beit Shean, bombed at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. [70 others injured].

2003 June 5: David Shambik (26) and Moran Menachem (17) both of Jerusalem, found beaten and stabbed near Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem.

2003 June 8: SSgt. Matan Gadri (21) of Moshav Moledet, shot while pursuing two gunmen who earlier had wounded a Police Officer at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

2003 June 11: Sgt. Tamar Ben-Eliahu (20) of Moshav Paran, Alan Beer (46), Eugenia Berman (50), Elsa Cohen (70), Zvi Cohen (39), Alexander Kazaris (77), Yaffa Mualem (65), Anna Orgal (55), Bianca Rivka Shichrur (62), Malka Sultan (67), Bertin Tita (75), Miriam Levy (74) all of Jerusalem, Roi Eliraz (22) of Mevaseret Zion, Yaniv Obayed (22) of Herzliya, Bat-El Ohana (21) of Kiryat Ata, Zippora Pesahovitch (54) of Zur Hadassah, Haile Abraha Hawki (56) [identified June 24] of Eritrea, bombed on a bus on Jaffa Road, Jerusalem. [100 others injured].

2003 June 12: Avner Maimon (51) of Netanya, shot in his car near Yabed.

2003 June 13: SSgt. Mordechai Sayada (22) of Tirat Carmel, shot in Jenin.

2003 June 17: Noam Leibowitz (7) of Yemin Orde, shot near the Kibbutz Eyal junction. [3 relatives injured].

2003 June 19: Avner Mordechai (58) of Moshav Sde Trumot, bombed in his market south of Beit Shean.

2003 June 20: Zvi Goldstein (47) of Eli, shot in his car near Ofra. [His wife and parents, Eugene and Lorraine Goldstein of U.S.A. were injured].

2003 June 26: Amos Mantin (31) of Hadera, shot in Baka al-Garbiyeh.

2003 June 27: Sgt. Maj. Erez Ashkenazi (21) of Kibbutz Reshafim, shot in Gaza.

2003 June 30: Krastyu Radkov (46) of Bulgaria, shot on the Yabed bypass road in northern Samaria.

2003 July 7: Mazal Afari (65) of Moshav Kfar Yavetz, bombed in her home. [3 of her grandchildren injured].

2003 July 15: Amir Simhon (24) of Bat Yam, stabbed in Tel Aviv.

2003 July 21: Cpl. Oleg Shaichat (20) of Upper Nazareth, shot on his way home.

2003 August 12: Yehezkel Yekutieli (43) of Rosh Ha'ayin, bombed in a local market.

2003 August 12: Erez Hershkovitz (18) of Eilon Moreh, Uli Nisanevitch (22) [died August 28] of Nofim, bombed at a bus stop outside Ariel 20 minutes after the Rosh Ha'ayin attack. [3 others injured].

2003 August 19: Avraham Bar-Or (12), Binyamin Bergman (15), Yaakov Binder (50), Feiga Dushinski (50), Lilach Kardi (22), Menachem Leibel (24), Liba Schwartz (54), Rabbi Eliezer Weisfish (42), Shmuel Wilner (50), Shmuel Zargari (11 months), Fruma Rahel Weitz (73) all of Jerusalem, Miriam Eisenstein (20), Elisheva Meshulami (16), Chava Nechama Rechnitzer (19), Hanoch Segal (65) all of Bnei Brak, Tehilla Nathanson (3) of Zichron Ya'acov, Maria Antonia Reslas (39) of Philippines, Goldie Taubenfeld (43) and Shmuel Taubenfeld (3 months) of U.S.A., Mordechai Reinitz (49), Issachar Reinitz (9), Mordechai Laufer (27) [died September 5] all of Netanya, Tova Lev (37) [died September 12] of Bnei-Brak, bombed on a bus in Shmuel Hanavi, Jerusalem. [130 others injured].

2003 August 29: Shalom Har-Melekh (25) of Homesh, shot while driving near Ramallah. [His wife Limor Har-Melekh (7 months pregnant) was injured and gave birth to a baby girl].

2003 September 4: SSgt. Gabriel Uziel (20) of Givat Ze'ev, shot in Jenin.

2003 September 5: Petty Officer Ra'anan Komemi (23) of Moshav Aminadav, shot in Nablus just after killing a senior Hamas bombmaker. [4 soldiers wounded].

2003 September 9: SWO Haim Alfasi (39) of Haifa, CWO Yaakov Ben-Shabbat (39) of Pardes Hanna, Cpl. Mazi Grego (19) of Holon, Capt. Yael Kfir (21) of Ashkelon, Cpl. Felix Nikolaichuk (20) of Bat Yam, Sgt. Yonatan Peleg (19) of Moshav Yanuv, Sgt. Efrat Schwartzman (19) of Moshav Ganei Yehuda, Cpl. Prosper Twito (20) of Upper Nazareth, Sgt. Liron Siboni (19) [died November 19] of Ramat Gan, bombed outside an entrance to Assaf Harofeh Hospital. [30 others injured].

2003 September 9: Dr. David Appelbaum (51) and his daughter Nava Appelbaum (20) of Jerusalem, David Shimon Avizadris (51) of Mevaseret Zion, Shafik Kerem (27) of Beit Hanina, Alon Mizrahi (22) of Jerusalem, Gila Moshe (40) of Jerusalem, Yehiel Tubol (52) of Jerusalem, bombed in Jerusalem. [50 others injured].

2003 September 26: Eyal Yeberbaum (27) and Shaked Avraham (7 months) both of Negohot, shot in their home during Rosh Hashana.

2003 October 4: Admiral Ze'ev Almog (71) and his wife Ruth Almog (70) and their son Moshe Almog (43) and grandsons Tomer Almog (9) and Assaf Staier (11) all of Haifa, Hana Francis (39) and Sharbal Matar (23) both of Fassouta, Nir Regev (25) of Nahariya, Irena Sofrin (38) of Kiryat Bialik, Zvi Bahat (35), Mark Biano (29) and his wife Naomi Biano (25), Mutanus Karkabi (31), Osama Najar (28), Lydia Zilberstein (56) all of Haifa, Bruria Zer-Aviv (59) and her son Bezalel Zer-Aviv (30) and his wife Keren Zer-Aviv (29) and their children Liran (4) and Noya (1) all of Kibbutz Yagur, George Matar (59) [died October 15] of Haifa, bombed by a female terrorist in Haifa. [60 others injured].

2003 October 15: John Eric Branchizio (37) of Texas, John Martin Linde, Jr. (30) of Missouri, Mark T. Parson (31) of New York, all American diplomats, bombed at the Beit Hanoun junction in Gaza. [1 other injured].

2003 October 24: SSgt. Alon Avrahami (21) of Or Yehuda, Sgt. Adi Osman (19) of Kfar Sava, Sgt. Sarit Schneor Sr. (19) of Shoham, shot in Netzarim.

2003 November 18: Sgt. Maj. Shlomi Belsky (23) of Haifa, SSgt. Shaul Lahav (20) of Kibbutz Shomrat, shot at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road between Jerusalem and Gush Etzion.

2003 November 19: Patricia Ter´n Navarrete (33) of Ecuador, shot at the Israel-Jordan border crossing terminal north of Eilat. [4 others injured].

2003 November 22: Ilya Reiger (58) of Jerusalem, Samer Fathi Afan (25) of Uzeir, shot along the security fence near Abu Dis.

2003 December 22: Capt. Hagai Bibi (24) of Maaleh Adumim, Capt. Leonardo Weissman (23) of Afula, grenade and gunfire on the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in Gaza.

2003 December 25: SSgt. Noam Leibowitz (22) of Elkana, Adva Fisher (20), Cpl. Angelina Shcherov (19), Cpl. Rotem Weinberger (19) all of Kfar Sava, bombed at a bus stop near Petah Tikva. [20 others injured].

2004 January 13: Ro'i Arbel (29) of Talmon, shot near his home in Samaria. [3 others injured].

2004 January 14: Cpl. Andrei Kegeles (19) of Nahariya, SSgt. Tzur Or (20) of Rishon Lezion, Gal Shapira (29) of Ashkelon, SSgt. Vladimir Trostinsky (22) of Rehovot, bombed by a female terrorist at the Erez Crossing in Gaza. [10 others injured].

2004 January 29: Avraham Balhasan (28), Rose Boneh (39), Hava Hannah Bonder (38), Viorel Octavian Florescu (42), Natalia Gamril (53), Baruch Hondiashvili (38), Dana Itach (24), Eli Zfira (48) all of Jerusalem, Anat Darom (23) of Netanya, Yechezkel Isser Goldberg (41) of Betar Illit, Mehbere Kifile (35) of Ethiopia, bombed on a bus at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. [50 others injured].

2004 February 22: Israel Ilan Avisidris (41), Lior Azulai (18), Yaffa Ben-Shimol (57), SSgt. Netanel Havshush (20), Yuval Ozana (32), Benaya Yehonatan Zuckerman (18) all of Jerusalem, Rahamim Doga (38) of Mevasseret Zion, Yehuda Haim (48) of Givat Ze'ev, bombed on a bus near the Liberty Bell Park in Jerusalem. [60 others, including 11 children, injured].

2004 February 26: Sgt. Maj. Amir Zimmerman (25) of Kfar Monash, shot near the Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel. [2 soldiers wounded].

2004 February 27: Eitan Kukoi (30) and his wife Rima Novikov Kukoi (25), shot on the Lahav-Ashkelon road along the Green Line.

2004 March 14: Gil Abutbul (38), Danny Assulin (51), Avraham Avraham (34), Zion Dahan (30), Mazal Marciano (30), Maurice Tubul (30) all of Ashdod, Pinhas Avraham Zilberman (45) of Tel Aviv. Ophir Damari (31) and Moshe Hendler (29) both of Rehovot, Avi Suissa (56) of Kiryat Malakhi, bombed at Ashdod Port. [16 others injured].

2004 March 19: George Khoury (20) of Beit Hanina, son of Elias Khoury, shot while jogging in French Hill, Jerusalem. The terrorist group responsible later published an apology.

2004 April 3: Yaakov Zagha (40) of Avnei Hefetz, shot outside his home. [His daughter Hani (14) was injured].

2004 April 17: Police Cpl. Kfir Ohayon (20) of Eilat, bombed at the Erez Crossing. [3 others injured].

2004 April 25: Police Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah (20) of Jaffa, shot near Hebron. [3 others injured].

2004 May 2: Tali Hatuel (34) and her daughters Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Merav (2) of Katif, shot at Gush Katif. [3 others injured].

2004 May 14: SSgt. Rotem Adam (21) of Rishon Lezion, Sgt. Alexei Hayat (21) of Beer Sheva, shot by snipers in the Rafah refugee camp. [2 soldiers wounded].

2004 May 29: Maj. Shachar Ben-Yishai (25) of Menahemia, shot near Nablus.

2004 June 21: Weerachai Wongput (37) of Thailand, hit by mortar shrapnel in Kfar Darom from terrorists unsuccessfully attempting to divert attention from a settlement infiltration.

2004 June 27: SSgt. Roi Nissim (20) of Rishon Lezion, bombed from an underground tunnel in Gaza. [5 soldiers wounded].

2004 June 28: Mordechai Yosepov (49) and Afik Zahavi (4) killed by rocket shrapnel at a nursery school in Sderot.

2004 June 29: Moshe Yohai (63) of Ashdod, shot in the Palestinian Authority-controlled village of Beit Rima.

2004 July 4: Victor Kreiderman (49) of Mevo Dotan, shot while driving near Yabad. [His wife Emma was injured].

2004 July 6: Capt. Moran Vardi (25) of Binyamina, shot while arresting terrorists in Nablus. [3 others injured].

2004 July 11: Sgt. Ma'ayan Na'im (19) of Bat Yam, bombed at a bus stop in Tel Aviv. [33 others injured].

2004 August 13: Shlomo Miller (50) of Itamar, shot near his home.

2004 August 31: Shoshana Amos (64), Aviel Atash (3), Vitaly Brodsky (52), Tamara Dibrashvilli (70), Raisa Forer (55), Larisa Gomanenko (48), Denise Hadad (50), Tatiana Kortchenko (49), Rosita Lehman (45), Karine Malka (23), Nargiz Ostrovsky (54), Maria Sokolov (57), Roman Sokolovsky (53), Tiroayent Takala (33), Eliyahu Uzan (58), Emmanuel Yosef (28) all of Beersheba, bombed on 2 buses near Beersheba City Hall. [100 others injured].

2004 September 22: Police Cpl. Menashe Komemi (19) of Moshav Aminadav and Lance Cpl. Mamoya Tahio (20) of Rehovot, bombed at French Hill, Jerusalem. [17 others injured].

2004 September 23: Capt. Tal Bardugo (21) and SSgt. Nir Sami (21) both of Jerusalem, SSgt. Israel Lutati (20) of Neve Dekalim, grenade and gunfire near Morag. [1 soldier and 1 journalist wounded].

2004 September 24: Tiferet Tratner (24) of Neveh Dekalim, killed by mortar shrapnel in her home.

2004 September 29: Yuval Abebeh (4) and Dorit Benisian (2) both of Sderot, killed in a rocket attack while playing in the street. [20 others injured].

2004 September 30: SSgt. Gilad Fisher (22) of Mitzpeh Hoshaya, shot near Beit Hanoun. [2 soldiers wounded].

2004 September 30: Shlomit Batito (36) of Nissanit, shot while jogging near his home. Sgt. Victor Ariel (20) of Kadima, a medic, killed by a grenade as he tried to aid Batito.

2004 October 6: Pratheep Nanongkham (24) of Thailand, shot in Kfar Darom.

2004 October 7: Assaf Greenwald (27) of Ramat Gan, Hafez al-Hafi (39) of Lod, Rotem Moriah (27) of Tel Aviv, Tzila Niv (43) and her two sons Gilad (11) and Lior (3) of Rakefet, Oleg Paizakov (32) and his wife Ludmilla Paizakov (30) of Bat Yam, Khalil Zeitounya (10) of Jaffa, bombed at the Taba Hilton in Sinai. Michal Alexander (27) of Ganei Tikva, Roy Avisaf (28) of Kfar Sava, Einat Naor (27) of Kibbutz Zikim, bombed at Ras a-Satan in Sinai. [122 other injured].

2004 October 19: SSgt. Yair Nisim Turgemann (22) of Kiryat Arba, shot near Mevo Dotan.

2004 October 21: Sgt. Maj. Moshe Almaliach (35) of Dimona, bombed during an engineering project on Philadelphi road in Gaza.

2004 October 28: Sgt. Michael Chizhik (21) of Tiberias, killed by mortal shells at Morag. [6 soldiers wounded].

2004 November 1: Tatiana Ackerman (32) of Tel Aviv, Leah Levine (64) of Givatayim, Shmuel Levy (65) of Jaffa, bombed at the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. [30 others injured].

2004 December 7: SSgt. Nadav Kudinski (20) of Kiryat Gat and his bomb-sniffing dog, bombed at the Karni Corssing in Gaza. [4 soldiers wounded while evacuating Kudinski].

2004 December 12: Sgt. Araf Azbarga (19) of Kseifeh, Sgt. Sa'id Jahaja (19) of Arara, Sgt. Hussein Abu Leil (23) of Ein Mahal, Corp. Adham Shehada (19) of Turan, Sgt. Tarek al-Ziadne (20) of Rahat, bombed from a tunnel at the Rafah crossing. [5 others wounded].

2004 December 14: Jitladda Tap-arsa (19) of Thailand, killed by mortar shells at Ganei Tal in the Gush Katif. [2 others injured, 1 from Thailand, 1 from Nepal].

2004 December 21: Ariella Fahima (39) of Moshav Nehusha, stabbed at her house.

2004 December 22: Salem al-Kimlat (28) of Rahat, shot near Hebron.

2005 January 2: Nissim Arbiv (25) [died January 11] of Nissanit, killed by a mortar shell in the Erez Industrial Zone. [2 others injured].

2005 January 2: Vladimir Rubin (66) of Kiryat Gat, shot at Bet Guvrin National Park.

2005 January 7: SSgt. Yosef Atia (21) of Petah Tikva, 2nd Lt. Ariel Buda (21) [died October 15] of Tel Aviv, shot while driving on the Trans-Samaria Highway. [3 others injured].

2005 January 12: Gideon Rivlin (50) of Ganei Tal, bombed near Morag. [3 soldiers wounded].

2005 January 13: Dror Gizri (30), Ivan Shmilov (53), Herzl Shlomo (51) all of Sderot, Ibrahim Kahili (46) of Umm al-Ghanem, Munam Abu Sabia (33) of Daburiyeh, Ofer Tiri (23) of Ashkelon, shot and bombed at Karni Crossing. [5 others injured].

2005 January 15: Ayala-Haya Abukasis (17) of Sderot, killed by rocket shrapnel while protecting her younger brother near their home. [Her brother was injured].

2005 January 18: Oded Sharon (36) of Gan Yavne, bombed at the Gush Katif junction in Gaza. [8 others injured].

2005 February 25: Yitzhak Buzaglo (40) of Mishmar Hayarden, Aryeh Nagar (37) of Kfar Sava, Yael Orbach (28) of Rehovot, Ronen Reuvenov (30) of Tel Aviv. Odelia Hubara (26) of Jerusalem, bombed in Tel Aviv. [50 others injured].

2005 May 2: SSgt. Dan Talasnikov (21) of Nir Galim, shot in Saida while arresting the terrorists responsible for the February 25 attack. [1 soldier wounded].

2005 June 7: Bi Shu De (46) of China, Salah Ayash Imran (57) and Muhammed Mahmoud Jaroun, both of Palestine, killed by rocket fire in Ganei Tal, Gaza. [5 others injured].

2005 June 19: Sgt. Maj. Avi Karouchi (25) of Beersheba, killed by missile and gunfire on the Philadelphi route along the Israeli-Egyptian border. [2 soldiers wounded].

2005 June 20: Yevgeny Reider, 28 of Hermesh, shot in Baka a-Sharkiya. [1 other injured].

2005 June 24: Avihai Levy (17) of Beit Hagai, Aviad Mansour (16) of Otniel, shot near Beit Hagai. [3 others injured].

2005 July 12: Rachel Ben Abu (16) and Nofar Horowitz (16) of Tel Aviv, Julia Voloshin (31), Anya Lifshitz (50), Cpl. Moshe Maor Jan (21) all of Netanya, bombed outside HaSharon Mall in Netanya. [90 others injured].

2005 July 14: Dana Galkowicz (22) of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, killed by rocket fire at Netiv Ha'asara.

2005 July 23: Dov Kol (58) and Rachel Kol (53) of Jerusalem, shot near the Kissufim crossing in Gaza. [3 others injured].

2005 August 24: Shmuel Mett (21) of U.K., stabbed near Jaffa Gate in the Old City. [2 others injured].

2005 September 21: Sasson Nuriel (55) of Jerusalem, kidnapped and shot in the industrial zone of Bitunya.

2005 October 16: Matat Adler (21) and her cousin Kineret Mandel (23) both of Carmel, Oz Ben-Meir (15) of Maon, shot at the Gush Etzion junction. [4 others injured].

2005 October 23: Katy David (27) of Kfar Yona, beaten and stabbed near Hadera. The murderers were not part of any terrorist organisation but confessed that they murdered her "because she was a Jew."

2005 October 26: Michael Kaufman (68), Ya'acov Rahmani (68), Pirhiya Machlouf (53), Genia Poleis (66) all of Hadera, Sabiha Nissim (66) of Moshav Ahituv, Jamil Qa'adan (48) of Baka al-Gharbiya, bombed in Hadera. [55 others injured].

2005 November 2: SSgt. Yonatan Evron (20) of Rishon Lezion, shot near Jenin.

2005 December 5: Haim Amram (26), Alexandra Garmitzky (65), Daniel Golani (45) all of Nahariya, Elia Rosen (38) of Bat Hefer, Keinan Tsuami (20) of Petah Tikva, bombed at the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. [50 others injured].

2005 December 8: Sgt. Nir Kahane (20) of Kiryat Tivon, stabbed at the Kalandiya checkpoint.

2005 December 16: Yosef Shok (35) of Beit Hagai, shot while driving home in the southern Hebron hills. [2 others injured].

2005 December 29: Lt. Ori Binamo (21) of Nesher, bombed near Tulkarm. [10 others, including 7 Palestinians, injured].

2006 February 5: Kinneret Ben Shalom Hajbi (58) of Petah Tikva, stabbed in a taxi en route to Tel Aviv. [5 other passengers injured].

2006 March 1: Eldar Abir (48) of Migdalim, shot near Migdalim.

2006 March 30: Rafi Halevy (63) and his wife Helena Halevy (58) of Kedumim, Re’ut Feldman (20) of Herzliya, Shaked Lasker (16) of Kedumim, bombed near Kedumim.

2006 April 17: Philip Balhasan (45) of Ashdod, Rozalia Beseneyi (48) and Piroşca Boda (50) of Romania, Marcel Cohen (73) of France, Ariel Darhi (31) of Bat Yam, Victor Erez (60) of Givatayim, Binyamin Haputa (47) of Lod, David Shaulov (29) of Holon, Lily Yunes (42) of Oranit, Lior Anidzar (26) [died May 13] of Tel Aviv, Daniel Wultz (16) [died May 14] of U.S.A., bombed near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv during the Pesach celebration. [60 others injured].

2006 June 11: Marwan Abed Shweika (35) of Abu Tor, Jerusalem, shot while driving north of Jerusalem. [2 others injured].

2006 June 25: Lt. Hanan Barak (20) of Arad and SSgt. Pavel Slutzker (20) both of Dimona, shot between the Kerem Shalom and Sufa crossings. [4 soldiers wounded, 1 kidnapped].

2006 June 25: Eliyahu Pinhas Asheri (18) of Itamar, kidnapped and shot between Betar Illit and Neveh Tzuf.

2006 July 12: SSgt. Ehud Goldwasser (30) of Nahariya and SSgt. Eldad Regev (26) of Kiryat Motzkin, kidnapped between Za’it and Shtula along the Israel-Lebanon border. Their bodies were returned to Israel 2008 July 16.

2006 July 17: SSgt. Osher Damari (20) of Netanya, bombed in Nablus. [6 soldiers wounded].

2006 July 27: Dr. Daniel Yaakobi (59) of Yakir, burnt in his car near Qalqilya.

2006 August 10: Angelo Frammartino (24) of Italy, stabbed while walking with friends in east Jerusalem.

2006 August 19: SSgt. Ro'i Farjoun (21) of Yehud, shot at the Bekaot chekpoint in the Jordan Valley.

2006 November 1: SSgt. Kiril Golenshein (21) of Moshav Keshet, shot by snipers in Beit Hanoun while pursuing terrorists.

2006 November 15: Fatima Slutsker (57) of Sderot, killed by rocket fire in Sderot. [1 other injured].

2006 November 21: Yaakov Yaakobov (43) of Sderot, killed by rocket fire in Sderot.

2007 January 29: Emi Haim Elmaliah (32), Michael Ben Sa'adon (27), Israel Zamalloa (26) all of Eilat, bombed in a bakery in Eilat.

2007 February 25: Erez Levanon (42) of Bat Ayin, stabbed near Beit Omar.

2007 May 21: Shirel Friedman (32) of Sderot, killed by rocket fire in Sderot.

2007 May 27: Oshri Oz (36) of Hod HaSharon, killed by rocket fire in Sderot.

2007 July 12: SSgt. Arbel Reich (21) of Yuvalim, killed by grenade and gunfire in the Bureij refugee camp, Gaza.

2007 September 18: SSgt. Ben-Zion Haneman (21) of Moshav Nov, shot in the Ein Beit Ilmeh refugee camp, Nablus.

2007 October 17: Sgt. Ben Kubani (20) of Hadera, shot near Khan Younis, Gaza.

2007 October 29: SSgt. Maj. Ehud Efrati (34) of Beit Yehoshua, shot near the Sufa crossing, Gaza.

2007 November 19: Ido Zoldan (29) of Shavei Shomron, shot near Kedumim, Palestine.

2007 December 28: Cpl. Ahikam Amihai (20) and Sgt. David Rubin (21) both of Kiryat Arba, shot while hiking in the Hebron area. The two terrorists turned themselves in to Palestinian General Intelligence to avoid being apprehended by IDF.

2008 January 15: Carlos Andrés Mosquera Chávez (21) of Ecuador, shot by a sniper in the fields of Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha.

2008 January 24: Cpl. Rami Zuari (20) of Beersheva, shot near Shuafat.

2008 February 4: Lyubov Razdolskaya (73) of Dimona, bombed in Dimona. [38 others injured].

2008 February 27: Roni Yihye (47) of Moshav Bitcha, killed by rocket fire in Sderot.

2008 March 1: SSgt. Doron Asulin (20) of Beersheba and SSgt. Eran Dan-Gur (20) of Jerusalem, killed by mortar, grenade and gunfire in northern Gaza.

2008 March 6: SSgt. Liran Banai (20) of Ashkelon, bombed near Kissufim. [1 other injured].

2008 March 6: Segev Peniel Avihail (15) of Neve Daniel, Neria Cohen (15) of Jerusalem, Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar (16) of Shilo, Yehonadav Haim Hirschfeld (18) of Kokhav Hashahar, Yohai Lifshitz (17) of Jerusalem, Doron Meherete (26) of Ashdod, Avraham David Moses (16) of Efrat, Ro'i Roth (18) of Elkana, shot in the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva library in Jerusalem. [80 others, mostly teenagers, injured].

2008 April 9: SSgt. Sayef Bisan (21) of the Druze village of Jat, shot in southern Gaza. [2 soldiers wounded].

2008 April 9: Oleg Lipson (37) and Lev Cherniak (53) both of Beersheba, killed by mortar fire in Nahal Oz.

2008 April 16: Sgt. Menhash al-Banyat (20) of the Bedouin community of Kseife, Sgt. Matan Ovdati (19) of Moshav Patish, Sgt. David Papian (21) of Tel Aviv, shot in Nahal Oz. [3 soldiers wounded].

2008 April 25: Shimon Mizrahi (53) of Bat Hefer and Eli Wasserman (51) of Alfei Menashe, shot in the Nitzanei Shalom industrial park.

2008 May 9: Jimmy Kadoshim (48) of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, killed by mortar fire while tending his garden.

2008 May 12: Shuli Katz (70) of Kibbutz Gevaram, killed by mortar fire at Moshav Yesha.

2008 June 5: Amnon Rosenberg (51) of Kibbutz Nirim, killed by mortar fire in Kibbutz Nir-Oz. [4 others injured].

2008 July 2: Elizabeth Goren-Friedman (54), Batsheva Unterman (33), Jean Relevy (68) all of Jerusalem, killed by a bulldozer between the Central Bus Station and the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. [50 others injured].

2008 July 11: Cpl. David Shriki [died July 23] of Rishon Le-Zion, shot near the Lion’s Gate in the Old City. [1 soldier wounded].

2008 October 23: Avraham Ozeri (86) of Gilo, stabbed to death near his home.

2008 December 27: Beber Vaknin (58) of Netivot, killed by rocket fire in Netivot.

2008 December 29: Hani al-Mahdi (27) of Aroar, killed by rocket fire in Ashkelon. [16 others injured].

2008 December 29: Irit Sheetrit (39) of Ashdod, killed by rocket fire in Ashdod.

2009 January 27: Bedouin IDF soldier [name withheld at family’s request] of Rahat, killed by IED at Kissufim Crossing. [3 soldiers wounded].

2009 March 15: SWO Yehezkel Ramzarkar (50) of Maale Ephraim, WO David Rabinowitz (42) of Ariel, shot near Massua. 

2009 April 2: Shlomo Nativ (13) of Bat Ayin, killed in an axe attack near his home.

2009 May 9: Gregory Rabinowitz (56) of Ashdod, kidnapped and strangled to death near Gan Yavne.

2009 December 24: Rabbi Meir Avshalom Chai (45) of Shavei Shomron, killed in a drive-by shooting near his home.

2010 February 10: Sgt Ihab Khatib (28) of Kfar Maghar, stabbed at the Tapuach junction by a senior Palestinian police officer.

2010 March 18: Manee Singmueangphon (34) of Thailand, killed by rocket fire in Netiv Ha'asara.

2010 March 26: Maj Eliraz Peretz (32) of Eli and Sgt Ilan Sviatkovsky (21) of Rishon Lezion, killed in an exchange of fire with terrorists who were planting explosives along the security fence in southern Gaza.

2010 June 14: Sgt Maj Yehoshua Sofer (39) of Beersheba, shot at Al Fawar Junction south of Hebron. [3 others wounded].

2010 August 31: Yitzhak Ames (47), his wife Talya Ames (45) who was 9 months pregnant with her seventh child, Kochava Even Chaim (37), Avishai Shindler (24) all of Beit Hagai, shot while driving on Route 60 near Kiryat Arba. Amongst the first responders on the scene was Kochava Even Chaim’s husband.

2010 December 18: Kristine Luken (46) of USA via England, stabbed while hiking west of Jerusalem.

2011 March 11: Udi Fogel (36), Ruth Fogel (35) and their children Yoav (11), Elad (4), Hadas (3 months), stabbed in their home in Itamar, northern Samaria.

2011 March 23: Mary Jean Gardner (55) of Britain, bombed near Jerusalem Convention Centre. [50 others injured].

2011 April 7: Daniel Viflic (16) of Bet Shemesh (died 17 April), when terrorists fired an anti-tank missile at a school bus near Kibbutz Sa'ad in the Negev.

2011 April 24: Ben-Yosef Livnat (24) of Jerusalem, killed by a Palestinian policeman at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus.

2011 August 18: Flora Gez (52), her sister Shula Karlinsky (54), their husbands Moshe Gez (53) and Dov Karlinsky (58) all of Kfar Sava, Yosef Levy (57) of Holon and bus driver Yitzhak Sela (56) of Beersheba were killed when terrorists entering Israel through Egypt bombed and shot a bus on its way to Eilat. [31 others injured].

2011 August 20: Yossi Shushan (38) of Ofakim, killed by rocket fire from Gaza in Beersheba.

2011 August 22: Eliyahu Naim (79) of Ashkelon, injured in rocket attack from Gaza and died 4 September.

2011 September 23: Asher Palmer (25) of Kiryat Arba and his son Yonatan (1), killed when their car was attacked.

2011 October 29: Moshe Ami (56) of Ashkelon, killed by rocket fire from Gaza.

2012 June 1: Sgt Netanel Moshiashvili (21) of Ashkelon, shot by terrorists from Gaza attempting to kidnap IDF soldiers.

2012 June 18: Said Fashapshe (35) of Haifa, killed by terrorists from Gaza.

2012 September 21: Cpl Netanel Yahalomi (20) of Nof Ayalon, shot by terrorists entering from Egypt.

2012 November 15: Aharon Smadja (49), Mirah Scharf (25), Itzik Amsalem (24), killed when rockets from Gaza hit their apartment building in Kiryat Malachi.

2012 November 20: Alayaan Salem al-Nabari (33) of Rejwan Beduin village, Cpl Yosef Fartuk (18) of Emmanuel, killed by rocket fire from Gaza in Eshkol.

2012 November 21: Lt Boris Yarmulnik (28) of Netanya, injured by rocket fire from Gaza and died November 22.