Akiva Pashkos

Pashkos, who lived in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood and worked as a manager in a tissue factory in Atarot, had taken several Arab workers from the factory to the A-Ram junction in his van and dropped them off at about 6.30 p.m. On his way back, at the southern entrance to Atarot close to the village of Bir Naballah, several shots were fired at his car, and he was fatally wounded.

The attackers, who were either driving in a separate vehicle or laying in ambush, fled to Bir Naballah. A group believed to be an offshoot of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction claimed responsibility for the attack, a senior West Bank Fatah official told Reuters.

"He was a good-hearted man," one of Pashkos's neighbors said, adding that the children of the neighborhood had eagerly awaited his arrival every Shabbat in synagogue, where he served as sexton and would hand out candy.
Akiva Pashkos is survived by his wife, Hila, and their five children. His oldest daughter is married and the youngest child is due to celebrate his bar mitzva in a few months.

Akiva Pashkos was laid to rest in Jerusalem's Har Hamenuhot cemetery.