This Week Faces Of Death Victims of terrorists share low rank on economic ladder. board the bus. Ostinsky left a wife, two children and two grandchildren. Jewish Telegraphic Agency Some observers noted that, given the terrorists' Jerusalem propensity to blow up buses because tf the high num- ast Friday, on the way to work from Pisgat ber of casualties, the price of attacks is being paid by a Ze'ev, my home neighborhood in Jerusalem, particular socio-economic sector that can't afford other I noticed an armed guard standing by bus means of transportation. One bereaved Israeli said this stop No. 6. At last, I said to myself, people became acutely clear to him during a recent visit to his can board a bus in Jerusalem with a sense of security. son's grave, which is located in a section of the Haifa Two days later, a suicide bomber managed to board cemetery for victims of terrorist attacks. bus No. 6, killing seven and "I looked around me, and wounding 20. Within a 48- what did I see? Graves of new hour span beginning Saturday immigrants, children and sol- night, 12 Israelis were mur- diers," said Yossi Mendelevitch, dered in three suicide attacks whose son Yuval, 13, was killed and dozens were wounded. in a bus bombing in Haifa ear- Terrorism was back on the lier this year. scene, a sad reminder that its „, But the terrorists don't dis- apparent absence in recent tinguish by age or race; they Moyal Perov Tawil months was only an illusion murder Arabs, too. One of the born of the army's success in preventing attacks. victims was Ghaleb Tawil, 42, a resident of the Shuafat The thing about terror attacks is that you don't refugee camp, located within Jerusalem's municipal really grasp the horror unless you have witnessed boundaries. one, or until you hear the stories of the victims' fam- Tawil was on his way to work at the Hadassah ilies. This makes the tragedies more real. Medical Center in Ein Kerem. Though he had experi- Pisgat Ze'ev borders a number of Arab neighbor- ence as a construction worker, he preferred to work as a hoods. Most of its residents are new immigrants cleaning man at the hospital: It made it easier to be from the former Soviet Union, young couples who close to his 12-year-old daughter, who was often hospi- can't afford to buy apartments closer to downtown talized due to leukemia. Jerusalem. The terrorist who murdered the passen- "Many nights, he wouldn't gers on bus No. 6 aimed to hit the poorest of them come home, in order to sleep by all, those who can't afford a private car, those who her," a family member said. get up early in the morning to make a decent living. Tawil left two wives and nine Yitzhak Moyal, 63, was on his way to the distribu- children. "The suicide bomber tion center at the central post office. His wife, Rina, was a merciless killer," one wife recalled that before going to sleep Saturday night, said. "Who will feed the orphans now?" they discussed the latest news — the murder of Gadi Levy, 31, and his pregnant wife, Dina, 37, of On Monday, a bombing at a Kiryat Arba, by a suicide bomber in Hebron. shopping mall in Afula took the lives of yet another Arab — "He was not afraid of anything," Rina Moyal said of her husband, who had immigrated to Israel from Hassan Tawat'ha, 41, of Jisser a Zarka, a fishing village near Morocco in 1960 with his nine brothers and sisters. "He was a strong believer that whatever will be, will be." Zikhron Ya'akov. "After every Moyal left six children and 12 grandchildren. terrorist attack, I hear the fami- lies say, 'Let this be the last vic- tim,'" said Tawat'ha's brother. The Empty Lot "Now it is Hassan. The terror- Shimon Ostinsky, 67, used to come to work in a park- ists do not distinguish between ing lot near the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, an Arab and a Jew." arriving 15 minutes before the lot opened. He never Other victims included missed a shift, thankful for the opportunity to be Marina Tsahivershvili, 44; Nelly employed at his age — even though back home in Perov, 55; Olga Brenner, 52, Kiev he had been a lecturer in economics. whose daughter was also serious- "Despite this, he was happy," his wife said. "He ly wounded; and Roni Yisraeli, 34, all residents of Pisgat Ze'ev. loved Israel very much and was proud of this place. Friends and family of Perov When his boss heard from a customer that the lot was still closed, he understood that something had recalled at her funeral how death was so incongruous for a happened to Ostinsky. He then heard of the bomb- woman so full of life. Just the ing, and understood that Ostinsky had been on GIL SEDAN L 5/23 2003 18 night before, she had celebrated the third anniver- sary of her immigration from Kazakhstan. She had come to Israel following her daughter Lana, a Hebrew University student who immigrated on the Jewish Agency's "students before parents" program. Perov also is survived by her son, Andrei, 35. The New Job In Monday's bombing in Afula, the terrorist — believed to be a woman — arrived at the shopping mall shortly after 5 p.m. She approached Kiril Sheremenko, the guard at the entrance. Sheremenko, 23, whisked the woman with a magnometer, which started whistling loudly. He signaled to Hadar Gitlin, a female guard standing behind him, to help him search the woman. But the woman detonated her bomb, killing Sheremenko in his first day at work — his first hour, in fact. "He replaced me a quarter of an hour before the attack," his col- league Oleg Pohovitz said. The third victim was a customer, Avi Zarihan, 36. Gitlin, 20, was seriously wounded. Gitlin had lost her job at the shopping center three days before, after she failed to identify a suspect in a drill in which a person carrying explosives entered the center. On Monday, her employers gave her another chance, and she was beside herself with joy. She was not supposed to be on guard duty at 5 p.m. but had volunteered to stay longer to replace a col- league who had not shown up for work. An hour later, she was in the hospital, fighting for her life. Gidin's parents, who had heard on the radio that a female guard had been killed, were sure Gitlin had died in the blast. Only later in the evening did they learn that she had survived. "She's in bad condition," Gidin's father said, "but at least I still have a daughter." El Seen through shattered glass, an Israeli rescue worker cleans up blood and body parts after a Palestinian suicide bomber- blew herself up at the entrance to a mall in Afitla on Monday. Three Israelis were killed and at least 70 were injured.