Six Of The Seven Terror Victims From Jaffa Named

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Six of the seven victims in the deadly terror attack in Jaffa on Tuesday, according to a Ynet report.

• Shahar Goldman, 30, from Lod.
• Inbar Segev-Vigder, 33, a fitness center owner and mother of a 9-month-old baby from Jaffa. Segev-Vigder was reportedly killed while shielding her 9-month-old son, Ari, who survived the attack. Just hours before the shooting, she posted a prayer on Instagram for the safety of Israeli soldiers entering Lebanon.A witness to the attack recounted seeing Segev-Vigder holding her baby in a carrier before she was shot. “A man came to help, and then we heard the baby scream. We pulled him from the carrier and got him off the train,” she said. “A police officer took me and the baby to Wolfson Hospital in a patrol car. I kept asking about the mother, but they told me to focus on the baby.”A survivor of the attack, 22-year-old Arik Marchenkov, who was shot twice in the back, described the powerful image of the mother cradling her baby as she bled. “It’s a miracle the baby survived, with all the bullets flying. The mother took the hits, and he was left unharmed,” he said.

• Revital Bronstein, 24, from Bat Yam. An only child to her mother Liora, Revital was a distinguished master’s student in computer science. In high school, she won prestigious awards for her work in computing and artificial intelligence, and she was also a talented comic artist.
• Nadia Sokolenko, 40, from Jaffa, a mother of one, was also killed in the attack. Her friend, Rafaella Goichman, paid tribute to her on Facebook: “My hands and body are shaking. My mind can’t grasp this. You were the walking definition of joy, light and cosmic optimism. You overcame so many obstacles, and we all know your life was a crazy obstacle course. But you always faced difficulties head-on. I will love you forever.”
• Ilia Nozadze, 42, a Georgian national who was shot three times by the attackers. He was rushed to Sourasky Medical Center in critical condition, but later succumbed to his wounds. Ilia, a truck driver, lived in the city of Kashuri in Georgia with his wife and two children, aged 17 and 14. The Georgian embassy in Israel is handling the repatriation of his body for burial in his homeland.
• Yonas Karosis, 26, a Greek-Israeli national who lived in Jerusalem and studied architecture in Tel Aviv. Yonas, originally from Saloniki, is the son of two non-Jewish Greek doctors who live and work in Israel. His father, Prof. Dmitri Carosis is a senior neurologist and the director of the center for multiple sclerosis at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem. Yonas’s mother Orania Varka is a pediatrician in Mevaseret Tzion.

The Jaffa attack claimed the lives of seven people and injured 15 others. An IDF soldier was among those critically wounded. The attackers, identified as Mehmed Khalaf Saher Rajab and Hassan Mohammed Hassan Tamimi, both from the city of Chevron, were in Israel illegally and were killed at the scene by light rail security guards and municipal emergency units, with the help of police and civilians. Following the attack, the IDF imposed a closure on Hebron.

Initial investigations revealed that one of the attackers was armed with an M-16 rifle, while the other carried a knife. They opened fire on passengers aboard the light rail before shooting at pedestrians on the street. The wounded were taken to Wolfson Medical Center in Holon and Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv.