Shaked Avraham, the 7-month-old baby who was murdered in Negohot on Friday
night by a Palestinian Arab terrorist – the 7th baby victim of the Oslo War -
was buried this afternoon in Kfar HaRoeh.

Shaked (pronounced ShahKED) Avraham, the 7-month-old baby who was murdered in
her home in Negohot on Friday night by a Palestinian Arab terrorist, was
buried this afternoon in Kfar HaRoeh, near Hadera. Eyal Yeberbaum, 27, who was
also murdered in the attack, was buried in his original hometown of Rehovot late
last night.

“A chilling aspect of this story,” related Negohot’s security officer Yuval
Levinger this morning, “is that the terrorist was just freed two months ago
from Israeli prison in the framework of the gestures towards Abu Mazen – even
though it was known that he had been planning to carry out a terrorist attack.
And so, a few weeks later, he carried it out.”

The murderer, a member of Islamic Jihad, had little difficulty making his way
into the community, as “bureaucratic difficulties” have left it with no
perimeter fence. He approached the caravan of Eyal and Sarah Yeberbaum, who were
hosting Shai and Shira Avraham and their baby Shaked for the Rosh HaShanah
holiday. Upon hearing a knock on the door in the middle of the meal, they
repeatedly asked who it was, and suddenly bullet fire sprayed the room through the
door. Eyal and the Shaked were mortally wounded, and the terrorist then began to
fire on other caravans nearby, wounding two other residents. Finally, an armed
resident from another caravan came out and was able to shoot and kill the
terrorist, ending the carnage.

The baby’s father, an ambulance driver, attempted to resuscitate his
seven-month old, but was not successful.

Shaked is at least the seventh baby under one year old to be murdered in the
ongoing Oslo War of terrorism against Israel. The others were Shalhevet Pass,
10 months old, of Hevron, in March 2001; Yehuda Chaim Shoham of Shilo, five
months, hit by a large rock in June 2001; nine-month-old Aviyah Malka in March
2002 in Netanya; Tif’eret Sarah Shilon, nine months, who was one of nine
people, including her father and maternal grandmother, who were murdered outside
Emanuel in July 2002; and two babies – Shmuel Zargari, 11 months, and 3-month-old
Shmuel Taubenfeld of the United States – murdered in the #2 bus bombing last
month.

Negohot, a growing Yesha community of 31 families – 19 families moved in over
the past two years – is situated on the east-west highway between Kiryat Gat
and Hevron. Though physically closer to Hevron, its only road to the Jewish
Southern Hevron Hills communities passes through PA-controlled Area A – leaving
it more “connected” with the pre-1967 areas near Kiryat Gat.

The terrorists of Gaza fired 15 mortar shells on the nearby Jewish
communities over Rosh HaShanah; no one was hurt.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 30th, 2003 and is filed under hotnews.