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Terrorist Strikes
On Crowded Street
Jerusalem/JTA — The terrorist with
an M-16 assault rifle ran out of a
covered passageway Tuesday between
a clothing shop and a discount drug-
store on Jaffa Road, near King
George Street and Zion Square.
Sbarro's, the Pizzeria, the scene of
last summer's deadly suicide bomb-
ing, is just down the block.
The Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall,
where 11 teen-agers were killed in a
double suicide bombing in
December, also is accessible from
this part of Jaffa Road.
The terrorist had had a street full
of possible victims. He opened fired
in all directions, wounding 46 peo-
ple, six of them seriously, before
being shot and killed by police.
On Tuesday night, two women,
aged 79 and 56, died from wounds
they sustained in the attack. The
older woman was identified as Sarah
Hamburger of Jerusalem. The sec-
ond woman was not immediately
identified. A mother of four,
Hamburger was on her way to a lec-
ture when she was hit by the terror-
ist's gunfire. Hamburger was a sev-
enth-generation Israeli. She grew up
in Hebron, but fled the city with her
family during the 1929 riots.
The attack came shortly after the
head of army intelligence warned
that Israelis must brace for an
unprecedented wave of terror.
The Al-Aksa Brigade, a militia of
Palestinian Authority leader Yasser
Arafat's Fatah Party, claimed respon-
sibility for the attack. The United
States condemned the attack.
"There's no justification for these
kinds of attacks; they only kill inno-
cent people," State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher said.
"Once again, we call upon Chairman
Arafat to take immediate and effec-
tive steps to end attacks such as
these and bring those responsible to
justice."
The Jerusalem shooting attack
occurred at the height of the evening
rush hour. Police stationed in the
area as part of a heightened security
alert spotted the gunman and gave
chase.
Israel is engaged in a war that is
being fought at home, "not some
distant battlefield," Jerusalem Mayor
Ehud Olmert said. "But we are deal-
ing with it with courage and deter-
mination."
Before police ended the terrorist's
shooting spree, he shot out the store
window of X-Boy, a trendy clothing
store whose display is covered in
furry, black-and-white zebra materi-
al. Hours later, the storeowner and
his son, Giora, were busy putting
cardboard in the window before
leaving for the night.
"Thank God no one was hurt in
the store," said Giora. "In an event
like this, you put your store back
together and are thankful that no
one was hurt too badly."
One of the lightly wounded vic-
tims was Faya Hasid, 40, who was in
Coresh — a women's clothing shop
she owns with her husband, Moshe
— when the terrorist came running
out of the alley next door.
Faya Hasid was caught in the
crossfire between the police and the
terrorist, her husband said, pointing
to bullet holes in two of the store's
windows. •
Across the street, next to the
busstop where several civilians were
shot in the attack, a crowd of young
men had gathered Tuesday evening,
holding signs and calling for revenge
on the Arabs. 0
Mass Bar Mitzvah
Stolen Chagall Safe
Moscow/JTA — Fifty-one boys cele-
brated their Bar Mitzvah at a
Moscow synagogue.
The ceremony at the Marina
Roscha synagogue celebrated the
51st anniversary of Rabbi
Menachem Schneerson's assuming
the leadership of the Lubavitch
movement.
The boys prepared for their bar
mitzvah during the last six months
at weekly seminars run by the
Lubavitch community in Moscow.
New York/JTA — A Chagall paint-
ing whose theft was linked to the
Middle East crisis is apparently safe.
A postal worker in Kansas recently
found what is believed to be "Study
Over Vitebsk" in a pile of mail
deemed undeliverable.
The painting was stolen from New
York's Jewish Museum in June. A
ransom note said it would not be
returned until there was peace in the
Middle East.
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