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Jul. 7, 2002 Ticket agent's wedding plans doomed by airport attacker By TOM TUGEND LOS ANGELES Friday was to have been one of Victoria Hen's happiest days. Her family had planned a surprise party at which Victoria's fiance would formally propose marriage to the 25-year-old Israeli-American woman. Instead, her parents, Avinoam and Rachel Hen, and her brothers Nimrod and Udi, spent the day planning her funeral service, set for 2 p.m. today at Eden Memorial Park in suburban Mission Hills. Hen, who had worked as an El Al ticket agent for only six weeks, was one of the victims slain...

They were both Jews born in Israel and both found a happier, safer life in America -- one the father of eight, the other, an angelic daughter. Victoria Hen was shot and killed at LAX on July 4. And both died in the kind of violence they had fled from, innocent victims of a heavily armed Egyptian immigrant who authorities say went to Los Angeles International Airport intending to kill. Relatives and friends on Friday mourned Victoria Hen, 25, of Chatsworth and Yaakov Aminov, 46, of North Hollywood. It was the day Hen was supposed to get engaged. After...