David Shimon Avizadris

Sept 9, 2003 - David Shimon Avizadris, 51, of Mevaseret Zion was one of seven people killed in a suicide bombing at Cafe Hillel on Emek Refaim St., the main thoroughfare of the German Colony neighborhood in Jerusalem.

David Avizadris usually went to the Aroma Cafe. He and his wife, Hadas, decided to go to Cafe Hillel after attending a parent-teachers meeting at their 10-year-old twins' school. They were also celebrating the news that their older son, who is in the army, had successfully completed the exams for an officers course. They were about to leave the cafe when David went inside to say goodbye. He was killed in the bombing; Hadas, who was standing near him, was unharmed.

The Avizadris family, seven siblings and their mother, had immigrated to Israel from Morocco in 1956. David, the eldest son, bore the responsibility of raising his three brothers and three sisters after their father's death. His mother lived with David in the house he built with his own hands. David worked as a house renovator.

David Shimon Avizadris was buried in Jerusalem. He is survived by his mother, six brothers and sisters, hiw wife Hadas and their three children.