Yulia Talmi

Mar 27, 2002 - Yulia Talmi, 87, of Tel-Aviv was one of 30 people killed in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder.

On the eve of Passover, the terrorist walked into the dining room of the hotel, located in the center of Netanya, where 250 guests had just sat down to begin the seder. He detonated an explosive device, killing 22 immediately and injuring 140, eight of whom subsequently died. The bomber was identified as a member of the Hamas Iz a Din al-Kassam Brigades, from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, which is just 10 kilometers (six miles) east of Netanya. He was on the list of wanted terrorists Israel had requested be arrested.

Yulia Talmi immigrated to Israel from Russia in 1933. Until the death of her husband, the family used to hold the seder at the family's small apartment near Rabin Square. This was the first time that Yulia and her childhood friend Chanah Rogan had decided to spend the holiday at a hotel.

Yulia's younger brother described her as "the stable one in the family, very independent and level-headed." The family lost another family member, a sister-in-law, Aya Meiri, in a terror attack on a tour in Egypt in February, 1990.

Yulia Talmi was laid to rest in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv.