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Oct. 23, 2003 Palestinian gets 16 life sentences for driving Sbarro bomber By JPOST.COM STAFF A female Hamas activist was sentenced to 16 consecutive life sentences for driving the Palestinian suicide bomber who blew up the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem some two years ago, killing 15 people. A military tribunal sentenced Jordanian-born Ahlam Tamimi, 23, for driving the suicide bomber to the restaurant on August 9, 2001. Fifteen people were killed in the attack and over a hundred others were injured. According to a transcript of the trial, Tamimi was the first woman to be recruited by the Izzadine el-Qassam...

Prison tour of female terrorists who helped bomb attack on restaurant and the kidnap and murder of a teenager finds unrepentant prisoners who vow to be released from jail Ahlam Tamimi, the terrorist who was sentenced to 16 life terms in jail for her involvement in the terrorist attack on the Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem in August 2001 said "I'm not sorry for what I did. We'll become free from the occupation and then I will be free from prison." Tamimi drove the suicide bomber to the restaurant, where he carried out the attack. Today she is jailed at the...

(IsraelNN.com) StandWithUs and Green Dog Entertainment, in cooperation with the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and the Consul General of Israel, have arranged for eight female Israeli teenage survivors of the devastating Dolphinarium suicide bombing and a mother who lost her only child in the attack, to come from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles from November 3-14, 2003. The program, entitled '10 Days of Hope,' will address the survivors' lingering health issues through appointments with local medical specialists. The teens will also enjoy sponsored visits to theme parks, studios, restaurants, beaches, and much more. Host families from neighborhood synagogues...

Name of J`lem suicide bombing victim released: Elisheva Meshulami, 16, of J`lem; her mother seriously injured

Strollers were scattered near the stricken bus, medics carried away children with blood-smeared faces and a baby girl died in a hospital before doctors could find her parents. At least five children were among the 18 dead in Tuesday's suicide bombing by a Palestinian militant who blew himself up on a Jerusalem bus. Forty children were among more than 100 people injured. The attack was the 100th Palestinian suicide bombing against Israelis since the latest round of fighting began in September 2000. The youth of the victims stands out in that grim list, and the government said the choice of...

A day-long vigil Wednesday commemorated victims of terrorism in Israel. The vigil, organized by the American Zionist Movement, was held in Union Square Park in the hours leading up to Tisha Be'av, which marks the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. In included readings of each victim's name and biography by Jewish leaders and local politicians, and a photo display of the more than 200 victims. Yonit Golub, a 20-year-old New Yorker whose friend, Benjamin Blutstein, was killed in a terrorist attack at the Hebrew University's cafeteria last July, spoke of the effect the attack has had...

Sergeant Tamar Ben Eliyahu, 20, from Moshav Paran Tamar grew up with her three brothers and sisters in Moshav Paran in the Arava, in southern Israel. She was a counselor in the youth movement of the Moshav movement and completed a year of community service under the auspices of the movement after high school. She was then recruited into the IDF and served in Jerusalem as an education NCO. As such, she served as a guide to groups of soldiers visiting the Western Wall and the Old City of Jerusalem. Mortally wounded in the attack, she died in hospital. Ro'i...