Mar 6, 2008 - Yohai Lifshitz, 17, of Jerusalem was one of eight students killed when a Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Mercaz Harav Kook yeshiva in Jerusalem and opened fire in the crowded library.
On Thursday evening, the yeshiva students - mostly teenagers - had returned from prayers. They were about to begin a party celebrating the beginning of the month of Adar - a month of joy marked by the Purim holiday. Many of the students had gathered in the yeshiva library before the party when the terrorist opened fire, killing eight and wounding 11.
Yohai Livshitz, who lived in the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem, was the second of six children.
"His most outstanding quality was his innocence," said Zvi Yehuda Herling, an instructor at the Kotel Yeshiva at the funeral. "He had a constant desire to search for his own truth, whether it was to rise before everyone and go to synagogue to study before morning prayer or practice for his army service."
Thank you for everything you've done and given for 18 years," Yohai's father Tuvia said. His cousin, Jonathan Kelerman, said: "He was a good soul with an extraordinary ability to persist studying the Torah. Even up to his death he was studying Torah in the library."
Yohai Lifshitz was laid to rest in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul cemetery. He is survived by his parents, Tuvia and Tzofia, four brothers and a sister.