The remaining victims killed in Friday night’s terrorist shooting in Jerusalem’s Neve Ya’akov neighborhood were all named Saturday night.
The attack killed seven people, two of whom – Eli and Natali Mizrahi – were identified earlier in the day. The shooting was followed by another terrorist attack on Saturday.
The third victim was Rafael Ben Eliyahu, 56.
Ben Eliyahu, a resident of the area, is survived by his wife and three children. He worked for the state-run Israel Post.
The fourth victim of the shooting attack has been identified as 14-year-old Asher Natan. There was no immediate further information about him.
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Shaul Hai, 68, was named as the fifth victim of the shooting attack.
Hai was a sexton at a synagogue in the neighborhood, but not the one where the attack took place, according to news site Kikar Shabbat.
According to the report, Hai was killed while going to a Torah lesson in his synagogue.
Irina Korolova, killed in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem on January 27, 2023. (Courtesy)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said another victim was a Ukrainian national, later named Irina Korolova.
According to Hebrew media reports, Korolova worked as a janitor.
“We share [Israel’s] Pain after the terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. Among the victims is a [Ukrainian] Woman,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter.
“Sincere condolences to the families of the victims. The crimes were committed in a cynical manner [International] Holocaust Remembrance Day”.
The last identified victim was named 26-year-old Ilya Sosansky.
Ilya Sosansky, 26, was killed in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem on January 27, 2023. (With kind approval)
Previously, the first victims to be named were Eli and Natali Mizrahi, a couple.
Eli’s father, Shimon, said the couple went outside to try to help those who had been shot and killed by the terrorists at close range.
Natali was a veteran worker at Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital, where she was taken after she was shot Friday night. Her death was declared immediately upon her arrival, the hospital said.
Eli and Natali Mizrahi, killed in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem on January 27, 2023. (Courtesy)
Another three people were injured in the attack – one seriously and the other two slightly. Hadassah Hospital said on Saturday that the seriously injured man’s condition had improved to moderate.
Eli and Natali Mizrahi were to be buried at Derech Hachaim Cemetery near the town of Beit Shemesh on Saturday night, the community said.
The funeral of 14-year-old Natan was scheduled to begin at 11 p.m. in the Har HaMenuchot cemetery, and he will be buried in the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, according to Hebrew media reports.
There were no immediate details about the funerals for the four other victims.
With seven dead, the Jerusalem shooting was the deadliest terrorist attack since 2011, when terrorists entered Israel from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and killed eight Israelis. It was the deadliest Palestinian terrorist attack since 2008, when a gunman from East Jerusalem killed eight Israeli students at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in the capital.
The attack was followed by another shooting in Jerusalem on Saturday morning, seriously injuring two Israelis. The attacker, a 13-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem, was shot and wounded before being taken into custody.
Friday’s deadly attack came after days of violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Tensions have increased dramatically since Thursday morning, when an Israeli Defense Forces raid on a terrorist cell in the West Bank killed nine Palestinians – most of them gunmen and members of the cell, although at least one civilian was also killed.
The IDF said Thursday’s operation in the Jenin refugee camp was necessary to thwart forthcoming attack plans by a local Islamic Jihad terrorist cell. According to the IDF, the group detonated explosives and firearms.
Hamas praised Friday’s attack in response to Thursday’s IDF operation, but no terrorist group claimed responsibility.
Rocket fire from Palestinian terrorist groups and Israeli retaliatory air strikes erupted in the Gaza Strip on Thursday night, although both sides appeared anxious to avoid escalating into a full-blown war.
Tensions were also high in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount on Friday, although Muslim prayers passed without a hitch.
AFP contributed to this report.
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