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Ayelet Hashahar Levy
Nov 2, 2000 - Ayelet Hashahar Levy, 28, was killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The terrorist attack was carried out
using a stolen Mazda, loaded with 10 kilos of explosives and nails, which was parked in Shomron Street, a side street of the Jerusalem market.
Flames leaped into the air, sending up huge black plumes of black
smoke as ambulances rushed to the scene. One witness, who owns a
store nearby, said he
tried to pull a woman out of the flames. "I saw her on the ground. I hoped she was alive but she was dead," said Yaakov Hassoum.
Ayelet, mother of a three-year-old girl, was in the process of moving into an apartment on Shomron Street. She was killed as she stood near the moving van, which had stopped and blocked traffic in the street.
Hanan Levy was also killed in the attack, in which 10 were injured.
Ayelet Hashahar Levy was the daughter of National Religious Party leader and former Housing Minister Yitzhak Levy. She was buried in the Givat Shaul Cemetery. Ayelet was eulogized by President Moshe Katsav as one "who so loved to help others... who was felled by evildoers who sought a way to kill innocent people."
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