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'''Rachel Levy''' is the name of: |
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'''Rachel Levy''' ({{lang-he|רחל לוי}}) was killed at age 17 on March 29, 2002 when [[Ayat al-Akhras]], a teenage [[Palestinian]] [[female suicide bomber]], wearing a belt of explosives around her waist, blew herself up at the entrance to a supermarket in [[Jerusalem|Jerusalem's]] Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood on March 29, 2002.<ref>http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Memorial/2002/2/Rachel+Levy.htm</ref> The killings gained widespread international attention due to the suicide bomber's age and gender and the fact that one of the two Israeli dead was a girl of nearly identical age as the bomber. The killings led U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] to observe: “When an 18-year-old Palestinian girl is induced to blow herself up and in the process kills a 17-year-old Israeli girl, the future itself is dying, the future of the Palestinian people and the future of the Israeli people.”<ref>http://www.robincmiller.com/articles/a15.htm</ref> |
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*[[Gertrude Rachel Levy]] (1884–1966), British cultural historian who published under the name G. Rachel Levy |
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*[[R.L. Kelly]], American electropop musician born as Rachel Levy |
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*[[Rachel Levy (mathematician)]] |
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*Rachel Levy (1984 or 1985–2002), Israeli victim of the [[Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing#Fatalities|Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing]] |
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*Sergeant Rachel Levy (circa 1982 – 2001), Israeli victim of the [[2001 Azor attack]] |
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*Rachel Levy, American college basketball player on the [[2017–18 Harvard Crimson women's basketball team]] |
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It is also the name of fictional characters: |
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==Childhood and family background== |
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*Rachel Levy, fictional character in 1930 mystery novel by Dorothy Sayers, ''[[Strong Poison]]'' |
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*Rachel Levy, fictional character in British medical drama television series [[Holby City (series 17)|''Holby City'' (series 17)]] |
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*Rachel Lévy, fictional character in French soap opera television series ''[[Plus belle la vie]]'' |
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*Rachel Levy, fictional character in Israeli comical musical telenovela ''[[HaShir Shelanu]]'' |
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*Rachel Levy, fictional character in American comedy-drama [[The Family Tree (2011 film)|''The Family Tree'' (2011 film)]] |
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{{human name disambiguation|Levy, Rachel}} |
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According to an account by Newsweek journalist Joshua Hammer,<ref>http://www.robincmiller.com/articles/a15.htm</ref> Rachel Levy was born in Israel but spent the early years of her childhood in California in the United States, returning to Israel at the age of eight. As she grew up, the Palestinian uprising had affected her--Hammer writes that "a suicide bomber killed three people in a downtown cafe where Rachel and her friends hung out" and a cousin was killed by a Palestinian sniper <ref>http://www.shanghai.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0l9j0</ref> less than a month before her own death --but, Hammer writes, she remained apolitical and unafraid. As a child, Rachel went to Fountain Day School in California. She was of Iraqi origin. |
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==The bombing and the perpetrator== |
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On Friday afternoon, March 29, Rachel Levy was on an errand to buy food for the shabbat meal when she was killed by the explosion set off when a 55 year-old security guard named [[Haim Smadar]] attempted to stop [[Ayat al-Akhras]] from entering the supermarket. The explosion killed Haim Smadar and Rachel Levy and injured 28 others, but Smadar's actions probably saved the lives of many, as Ayat otherwise could have exploded the device deep inside the crowded market. Ayat was the third female Palestinian suicide bomber and, at an age variously reported between 16 and 18, the youngest. Politically active from an early age, Ayat was reportedly radicalized during the [[Second Intifada]] when a next door neighbor was killed by Israeli troops. |
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The [[Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade]] claimed responsibility in the press for the act of terrorism. Most commentators and world leaders condemned the act but some Palestinians and Islamic radicals,<ref>http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP36702</ref> consider Ayat something of a hero figure. [[Newsweek]], [[CBS]] and other western media juxtaposed the stories of Ayat and Rachel Levy in ways that infuriated at least one conservative commentator .<ref>http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27233</ref> |
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==See also== |
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* [[Suicide bomber]] |
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* [[Female suicide bomber]] |
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* [[Palestinian terrorism]] |
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* [[Al-Aqsa Intifada]] |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/23/60II/main555401.shtml CBSnews] |
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*[http://www.ziv.jerusalem.k12.il/rapic.html Pictorial tribute to Rachel Levy at the website of Sieff and Marks School in Jerusalem, which she attended] |
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/audio/avigaillevy.ram BBC radio interview with Avigail Levy, Rachel's mother] |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Levy, Rachel}} |
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[[Category:Israeli casualties during the Al-Aqsa Intifada|Levy, Rachel]] |
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[[Category:People from Jerusalem|Levy, Rachel]] |
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[[Category:2002 deaths|Levy, Rachel]] |
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[[Category:Israeli terrorism victims|Levy, Rachel]] |
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[[Category:Terrorism deaths in Jerusalem]] |
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[[Category:Israelis of Iraqi descent]] |
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[[Category:Iraqi Jews]] |
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[[Category:1980s births]] |
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[[Category:Jewish children]] |
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[[Category:Israeli children]] |
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Latest revision as of 08:35, 27 July 2018
Rachel Levy is the name of:
- Gertrude Rachel Levy (1884–1966), British cultural historian who published under the name G. Rachel Levy
- R.L. Kelly, American electropop musician born as Rachel Levy
- Rachel Levy (mathematician)
- Rachel Levy (1984 or 1985–2002), Israeli victim of the Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing
- Sergeant Rachel Levy (circa 1982 – 2001), Israeli victim of the 2001 Azor attack
- Rachel Levy, American college basketball player on the 2017–18 Harvard Crimson women's basketball team
It is also the name of fictional characters:
- Rachel Levy, fictional character in 1930 mystery novel by Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison
- Rachel Levy, fictional character in British medical drama television series Holby City (series 17)
- Rachel Lévy, fictional character in French soap opera television series Plus belle la vie
- Rachel Levy, fictional character in Israeli comical musical telenovela HaShir Shelanu
- Rachel Levy, fictional character in American comedy-drama The Family Tree (2011 film)
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