Meir Bahrame

Nov 22, 2000 - Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga was killed when a powerful car bomb was detonated alongside a passing bus on Hadera's main street, when the area was packed with cars and pedestrians.

The car bomb was detonated just before 5:30 P.M. on Rehov Hanassi near the Lev Hadera shopping mall, killing two passengers of the bus - Meir Bahrame and Shoshana Reis. People in the sidewalk stores and residents living above the shops were among the 60 injured.

The blast occurred just as the No. 7 Egged bus, en route from Hadera to Givat Olga with more than 20 people on board, had stopped to take on passengers.

Meir Bahrame was the father of a 6-year-old girl and 4-year-old twins. Divorced, he worked at Hillel Yoffe Hospital in the mornings and at a restaurant in Givat Olga in the evening. His brother, Arik, said his employer at the restaurant had asked him to come to work an hour earlier than usual and for that reason he had taken the No. 7 bus.