At the time, the victim of the bombing attack was 6-months-old. It was one of the photos that many remember; when Zaka’s Rav Bentzi Uring rescued the child from the terror attack in Jerusalem’s Beis Yisrael neighborhood.

Today, 12 years following the attack that claimed eleven lives and left dozens injured, Shimon Yisrael Levi will mark his bar mitzvah on Sunday night 2 Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5774 and one of the honored guests will be Uring, Zaka’s Jerusalem Operations Officer today.

Back at the attack, Uring began mouth to mouth resuscitation on the child and then he was transported to a local hospital. The two have remained in touch since the victim’s hospitalization.

Uring met with the chosson bar mitzvah on motzei Shabbos, bringing a big smile to his face seeing him today preparing for this memorable event.

Mar 2, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a suicide bombing at 19:15 on a motzei Shabbos near a yeshiva the Beis Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar mitzvah.

The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby shul. The victims: Shlomo Nehmad (40), his wife Gafnit (32), and their daughters Shiraz (7) and Liran (3), of Rishon L’Tzion; Shaul Nehmad (15), of Rishon L’Tzion; Lidor Ilan (12) and his sister Oriah (18 months), of Rishon L’Tzion; Tzofia Ya’arit Eliyahu (23) and her son Yaakov Avraham (7 months), of Jerusalem HY”D.

Avi Hazan, 37, of Moshav Adora, died of his injuries on Monday morning (Mar 4). Avraham Eliyahu Nehmad, 7, of Rishon L’Tzion, died of his injuries on June 20.

The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)