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UN Partition 1947--On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted with a 2/3 majority to partition western Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.(1) The Jews were to be granted mostly the Negev and the Northern Coast. Over 75% of the land allocated to the Jews was desert. Desperate to find a haven for the remnants of European Jewry after the Holocaust, the Jewish population accepted the plan, which accorded them a diminished state. The Arabs, intent on preventing any Jewish entity in Palestine, rejected it. (www.jajz-ed.org.il) |
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Terror Victim Biography July 16, 2001- Hanit Arami, 19, of Zichron Yaakov, was killed when a bomb exploded in a suicide terrorist attack at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina.
The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Hanit grew up in Zichron Yaakov, where she excelled in her studies. She had been in the army for about a year, and was returning home from the base. Her parents, Carmela and Sammy, heard about the bombing on the radio and came to the train station to look for their daughter. Several hours later, they were informed that she had been killed. Hanit Arami is to be buried in Zichron Yaakov. She is survived by her parents, an older sister who is serving in the army, and two younger sisters. |
At about 19:30 on Monday
evening, a suicide bomber exploded a bomb at a bus stop near the train
station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa. Corporal Hanit
Arami was killed instantly. Also killed in the explosion was St.Sgt. Avi Ben
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