Ronen Landau, 17 The kids playing ball were saved,Ronen was shot dead On July 26, 2001, at 10:30 at night, Palestinian terrorists set up an ambush from the village of Al Jib, under the Palestinian Authority’s civil control.Two Palestinian snipers situated themselves on a hill over-looking the Jerusalem-Givat Ze’ev highway. They first took shots at the soccer field of the community of Givon, where six Israeli boys were playing soccer. The terrorists sprayed guufire, but fORTunately did not hit anyone. The boys fled. Then the terrorists aimed their weapons at an Israeli car passing on the highway.The shots hit the car in which Shmuel Landau was traveling with his 17-year-old son Ronen. Ronen was critically wounded by a bullet to the head, and died a short time later. Ronen took an interest in numerous subjects. “He had the soul of a scientist,” his friends said. His father said Ronen loved animals, especially his two dogs – Sheleg and Ioy. “On the night of the murder, when I returned home without Ronen, they immediately understood. They whined and barked all night.” Ronen’s paternal grandparents are Holocaust survivors who lost their families in Europe. They married on the way to Israel, where they raised a family. Palestinian terrorists forced them to bury their beloved grandson.    Menashe Meni Regev, 14, and Shoshana Rachel Ben Yishai, 16 Sunday, November 4, 2001, 3:45 in the afternoon, the French Hill junction in Jerusalem: Egged bus no. 25 slowly approaches the intersection. Dozens of pupils on their way home from school are on the bus. Among them are no fewer than 35 girls from the Beit Shulamit Religious High School located in Jerusalem’s Neveh Yaakov neighborhood. A Palestinian terrorist from Hebron is standing on the sidewalk. He waits for the bus to stop at a traffic light, pulls out a M16 automatic rifle and sprays the bus at point-black range. Two children are killed on the spot – Shoshana (Shoshi) Ben Yishai, 16, and Meni Regev,14. Twenty-five other passengers – mostly children – are wounded. Eleven Beit Shulamit students were hurt in the attack, and Shoshana Ben Yishai was killed. The last lesson of the day for Shoshana’s eleventh-grade class was in Jewish philosophy. The subject was man’s evil inclination and the way it can be overcome. “Suddenly Shoshi stood up and asked, How does one grapple with the evil inclination, because everyone has a little evil inside them,’” recalls the teacher. “I said that was a very difficult ques-tion and we would devote a broader discussion to the topic in the coming classes. But Shoshi, a lovely, caring girl, didn’t have any more classes.” Meni Regev studied at Brandt Religious School in Neve Yaakov. “Meni was a new student in the school,” related his teacher, “but he had already taken the responsibility of organizing the charity fund to buy school supplies for needy students. Everyone liked him,” said his friends. Not all the students of the school participated in their friend’s funeral. "I couldn’t go, 'recalled one.' I just couldn’t watch them putting Meni in the ground." A few days after the murder, a number of the Beit Shulamit students were afraid to get on the bus that took them home; the school’s teachers had to ride the bus with them to give them strength.    Yael Ohana, 11 A handicapped girl murdered in her own home On February 6, 2002, at 9:10 p.m., two Palestinian terrorists infiltrated into the community of Hamra, in the Jordan Valley, firing their automatic weapons in every direction. One of the terrorists burst into the home of the Ohana family. Miri Ohana and her 11-year-old handicapped daughter Yael were home at the time. When an Israeli army sniper started shooting at the terrorist, the infiltrator shot and killed Yael and her mother. Yael, the family’s youngest, studied at a special school in Jerusalem. “Why, what harm did she every do,” cried Yael’s father at his daughter’s funeral.    1 2 3 4 5  6 7 8  9 10 11  12 13 14  15