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The Victims

Mother and two young sons are among
Israeli dead in Sinai attacks.

DINA KRAFT
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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n a recent photograph, Michal
Alexander lounges, smiling, in a
rope hammock by the Red Sea, her
eyes half-closed in a relaxed, dreamy,
Sinai state of bliss. Now, just four
months after that pic-
ture was taken,
Alexander's friends,
family and even Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon
— in whose office she
worked for the past
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pling with her violent,
untimely death.
Alexander, 27, a
woman with a passion
for literature and
music, was killed
instantly while sleep-
ing in a palm-thatch
Ludmilla Paizakov
but when a piece of
shrapnel from one of
the bombs that target-
ed Israeli vacationers
in Sinai on Oct. 7 hit
her in the head.
Alexander was buried
Oct. 10, one of at least
What Alexander
12 Israelis killed in the
coordinated bomb
attacks on two Sinai resort towns.
In all, at least 32 people — among
them Egyptians and Russian and Italian
tourists — were killed when a truck
packed with explosives rammed into the
lobby of the Taba Hilton, followed by
twin explosions at the Ras Satan beach
resort, 30 miles down the coast.
Alexander's friend, who lay asleep next
to her when one of the Ras Satan bombs
exploded, was injured but alive. She was
dragged away, shouting wildly, "Where
is Michal? Where is Michal?"
The devastation cut especially deep for
the Ziv family of the small Galilee com-
munity of Rakefet. When they said
goodnight to each other at the Taba
Hilton on Oct. 7, they were a family of
six — mother, father, twin teenage
daughters and two sons. But the bomb-
laden truck exploded beneath their
ninth-floor rooms, hurtling the parents,
Zohar and Tzila, and their two sons into
the crush of concrete, debris and flames.

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Zohar Ziv survived with moderate
injuries, but Tzila, 43, a teacher of
Arabic, was killed — as were the two
boys, Gilad, 11, and Lior, 3. The twin
girls, Yael and Sharon, 18, survived
unscathed in the adjacent room.
"I cannot believe this. It is hard for me
to even speak," said Arieh Sharon, Tzila
Ziv's father. Because the Egyptians were
delaying the bodies' return until they

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had been positively identified, Lior Ziv's
body was smt t L4: ed out in a small card-
board box, the Ha'aretz newspaper
reported.
Zohar Ziv was told of his wife and
sons' deaths while he was recovering in
the hospital. His daughters left the hos-
pital weeping and walking with difficul-
ty. Zohar Ziv's brother, Reuben, said the
family had been inundated with calls
from people asking how they could help.
"But there is nothing to help with; no
one can help us. The tragedy is terrible
and it is ours," he said.
In a recent family photo, the Zivs are
seen together smiling, their arms around
one another. The Israeli newspaper
Yediot Achronot ran the photo on its
front page.
Another family torn apart by the Taba
attack was the Paizakovs, immigrants
from Kazakhstan. Ludmilla and Oleg

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