Leah Strick

Dec 2, 2001 - Leah Strick, 73, of Haifa, was one of 15 people killed in a suicide bombing on an Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa.

The bombing occurred shortly after noon, when a Hamas suicide bomber boarded an Egged No. 16 bus traveling from the Neveh Sha'anan district, paid the driver with a large bill, then blew himself up as the driver asked him to collect his change.

Leah Strick was one of five sisters who survived the Holocaust in the Bialystok ghetto and concentration camps in Poland and came to live in Israel 50 years ago. During the past two years, she was living together with her sister Bella Fuchs, 76, in an apartment on Hagiborim Street in Haifa.

On Sunday morning, Leah Strick went to visit her elder sister, 82, in a geriatric institution in the Neveh Sha'anan quarter of Haifa and was returning home. Bella was waiting for her at noon on a bench at the Gevura intersection. She saw the bus approaching and got up to greet her sister when the explosion occurred.

Leah Strick was buried in Haifa. She is survived by her sisters, a son and daughter, and five grandchildren.