Shlomo Nehmad

Mar 2, 2002 - Shlomo Nehmad, 40, of Rishon Lezion was one 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.

The Nehmads, a tightly-knit, traditional-religious family, had strong roots in their Rishon Letzion neighborhood. Hannah Nehmad, Shlomo's mother, who yesterday buried five grandchildren, a son and a daughter-in-law, is a fixture in the neighborhood.

Shlomo worked as a sanitary worker in the veterinary department in Rishon Lezion. The Nehmad family had come to Jerusalem for Shabbat to celebrate a family bar mitzvah at the Mahane Israel yeshiva in Jerusalem. When the Sabbath ended and guests started to leave, the Nehmad family gathered on the street outside for the havdalah ceremony (held at the conclusion of the Sabbath).

Shlomo Nehmad was killed together with his entire family: his wife, Gafnit, and his daughters Shiraz and Liran. Also killed in the suicide bombing were his nephews Shaul and Avraham Eliahu Nehmad, and two of his sister Ronit's children - Lidor and Oriah Ilan.

They were buried together in Rishon Lezion.