The Ariel family got up from shiva on Thursday, 2 Rosh Chodesh Tammuz. They were sitting shiva for their daughter, Hallel Yafeh Ariel HY”D,  the 13-year-old Kiryat Arba resident murdered by a lone Palestinian terrorist who entered her home and stabbed her multiple times without mercy as she slept.

After getting up from shiva they traveled a few short kilometers, to Yishuv Otniel, making a shiva visit to the Mark family, whose father Rav Miki Mark H”YD was murdered in a terrorist drive-by shooting attack near Otniel on erev Shabbos. Miki was killed and his wife, Chavah Rochel bas Ayelet HaShachar was seriously wounded by terrorist gunfire. B’chasdei Hashem she is making a miraculous recovery and is reported in moderate condition in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. She has regained consciousness and is alert and communicating with her surroundings. The couple’s children are sitting shiva in their home.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)