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March 11, 1988 - Image 44

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1988-03-11

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Three Israelis Killed
In Terrorist Bus Hijack

Tel Aviv (JTA) — A 3Y2-hour
long terrorist bus hijacking
and shooting rampage in the
Negev resulted in the deaths
of three Israeli civilians and
the wounding of ten. Two
women and a man, all passen-
gers in the bus, were fatally
shot last Monday. The man
was killed by the terrorists
while senior Israel Defense
Force officers were bargaining
with them to gain time. The
women were killed as border
police stormed the bus. Ac-
cording to the IDF, they were
fired upon by the terrorists,
all three of whom were killed
by border police.
The dead Israelis were iden-
tified as Victor Ramm, 39, an
engineer and father of three
children whose mother died
three months ago; Miriam
Ben-Meir, 46, a mother of four
children; and Rina Shiratzky,
31, mother of two. All were
from Beersheba and worked
at the Dimona nuclear plant.
Nine of the wounded were
bus passengers; the tenth was
a man traveling on the road
at the time of the hijacking.
The bus was carrying em-
ployees of the nuclear facility
in Dimona, mostly women, to
their jobs from Beersheba.
The bus was packed with 50
passengers, but most of them
managed to escape unhurt.
The terrorists apparently in-
filtrated the Negev from
Egypt. Defense Minister Yit-
zhak Rabin, reporting on the
incident to the.Knesset, iden-
tified the hijackers as mem-
bers of the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine-
General Command, headed
by Ahmed Jabril, who is

reportedly headquartered in
Syria.
The only demand the hi-
jackers made to the pas-
sengers, and later to the IDF
officers, was to speak to
representatives of the Inter-
national Red Cross.
They started their shooting
spree by seizing a military car
at gunpoint from three IDF
officers who managed to
escape and alert security
forces. The terrorists drove
the car along the Beersheba-
Dimona road, shooting at
passing vehicles. They were
stopped by a slow-moving
tractor-trailer truck. The
Dimona-bound bus was just
ahead of the truck. The ter-
rorists abandoned the car and
took over the bus. All but
about a dozen passengers fled
for cover.
Police in a pursuing car
halted the bus by shooting
out its tires. Senior IDF of-
ficers approached the disabl-
ed vehicle to negotiate with
the hijackers, while border
police, trained in anti-
terrorist tactics, deployed for
an assault on the bus.
Meanwhile, in another de-
velopment, the three IDF of-
ficers from whom the ter-
rorists seized the vehicle are
under arrest and will be court
martialed. According to IDF
spokesmen, the officers were
not wearing their required
weapons when their military
vehicle was seized. Had they
been armed, they might have
been able to prevent the ter-
rorists from commandeering
their vehicle, thus foiling the
terrorist incident before the
bus hijacking.

JWV Wants Survivor
To Get Medal Of Honor

Washington (JTA) —The
Jewish War Veterans of
the United States (JWV)
launched a nationwide cam-
paign last week for Tibor
Rubin, a Hungarian-born sur-
vivor of the Nazi death camps,
to receive the Congressional
Medal of Honor for his actions
during the the Korean War.
The 58-year-old Rubin is
now a 100 percent disabled
veteran living in Garden
Grove, Calif. Eighteen
months after arriving in the
United States, he enlisted the
army in February, 1950. In
November, his unit was cap-
tured in Unsan, North Korea,
and he spent the next 44
months as a prisoner-of-war.
During that time, he is cre-

dited with saving the lives
of 35 to 40 other prisoners.
Although badly wounded
himself, Rubin provided
medical care for the wounded
and stole food and supplies for
them.
Rubin was released in a se-
cret exchange of the most
badly wounded POWs. He
smuggled out in a leg cast the
names and whereabouts of
500 prisoners.
Veterans groups have
sought to have him awarded
the medal for which he had
originally been refused, but
the Defense Department has
refused on the grounds that
the statute of limitations for
giving him the medal has ex-
pired.

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