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Sgt. Rachel Levy
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February 14,
2001 - Sgt. Rachel Levy, 19, of Ashkelon, was one of 8 Israelis
killed when a Palestinian crashed a bus into a crowded bus stop at
Azor junction, south of Tel Aviv. It was the deadliest Palestinian
attack on Israelis in four years. |
Sergeant Rachel
Levy worked on computers in logistics at Tel Hashomer. She had
signed to continue her service in the IDF for an additional three
years. She had been dropped off by her father near the Tel
Aviv Central Bus Station, about an hour before she was killed. He
said: "Adi, my older daughter, told me that the attack occured
at a junction where Rachel used to be daily. We called her on her
cell phone, but there was no answer. We called her commander, and he
said that she had not arrived. We then called the hospital, and they
told us that she was not among the injured. We asked about her close
friend and neighbor, Sigal Yunsi, and we were told that she was
severely injured. I felt weak in the knees. We did not know what was
happening. And then the officers came with the bad
news." "The army was her whole life," her mother Henya
said. "I don't wish this feeling on any mother, I can't stop
shaking." Rachel left behind her parents and two sisters.
She was buried in Ashkelon.
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