Hadassah Jungreis

June 19, 2002 - Hadassah Jungreis, 20, of Migdal Haemek, was one of seven people killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M.

The bomber jumped out of a car at the French Hill junction and, as Border Patrolmen on duty at the scene began to approach him, he ran past them toward the crowded bus stop on the eastern side of the road, setting off the bomb he was carrying in a crowd of people. Three Israelis and four others died in hospital. About 50 were wounded by shrapnel that was packed around the explosive, with several in critical and serious condition, including one of the Border Patrolmen who had tried to stop the bomber.

Hadassah Jungreis, whose parents immigrated to Israel from South Africa, was born in Afula and grew up in Migdal Haemek. She attended primary school in at the Beit Ya'akov school in Haifa, and high school at the Ulpana in Kfar Pines. She completed her national service and began to study communications several months ago at the Orot College in Elkana. She was on her way to visit her uncle, Zvika, who was to pick her up at the French Hill junction. Her friend Michal Franklin saw her waiting and stopped to talk to her; both were killed.

Hadassah Jungreis was buried in Migdal Haemek. She is survived by her parents, Yehuda and Zviya, four brothers and a sister: Chaim (24), Shraga (18), Yair (13), Avichai (10), and Sivan (14).