Lidor and Oriah Ilan

Mar 2, 2002 - Lidor Ilan, 12, and his sister Oriah 18 months, of Rishon Lezion were two of 11 people killed in a suicide bombing on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem.

Lidor and Oriah were at the Mahane Israel yeshiva in Jerusalem with their parents, Shimon and Ronit, and sister celebrating a family bar mitzvah - Ronit's nephew. Also attending the bar mitzvah were Ronit's brothers, Shlomo and Ezra Nehmad and their families. When the Sabbath ended, Ronit, and her daughter Linoi (8) went to change their clothes before returning home.

Shimon Ilan said: "My son Lidor was sitting in the car listening to music. I held Oriah in my arms, and went towards the trunk. I called to Lidor to bring me the keys to open the trunk. As he stood next to me and I opened the trunk, the explosion occurred. Oriah flew out of my hands." Both children were killed, along with six members of the Nehmad family.

Lidor and Oriah Ilan were buried side by side in Rishon Lezion. They are survived by their parents and sister.