Yaakov Binder
Aug 19, 2003 - Yaakov Binder, 50, of Jerusalem was one of 23 persons murdered by a suicide bomber on a No. 2 Egged bus in the capital's Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood.
The attack took place at about 9 p.m. as the bus was making its way from the Western Wall to several religious neighborhoods. The Hamas suicide bomber, apparently disguised as a religious Jew, boarded the bus and detonated his bomb shortly afterwards. Seven of those killed were children and over 130 people were wounded.
Yaakov Binder was walking past the bus on his way to the bar mitzva of a friend's son when the terrorist exploded his bomb, murdering him as well.
Binder served for many years as the kashrut supervisor of the Jerusalem Religious Council. "He was always concerned that no one should lack anything, but he would do so behind the scenes," related his sister-in-law, Miriam. "He never asked anything for himself; he was simply head and shoulders above other men."
A Gur hassid, Binder was a follower of Rabbi Pinhas Menahem Alter and studied with him in his yeshiva.
Yaakov Binder was buried in Jerusalem. He is survived by his wife and seven children, three sons and four daughters.