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The entrance to the Kiryat HaYovel supermarket, where Akhras detonated the bomb and killed 2.

Rachel Levy (Template:Lang-he) 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's Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood on March 29, 2002.[1] 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, who herself had a coincidentally similar "twin-like" appearance to 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.”[2]

The 2007 HBO documentary To Die in Jerusalem is about the efforts of Rachel's mother Avigail Levy to meet with Um Samir al-Akhras, the mother of Ayat al-Akhras.

References

  1. ^ http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Memorial/2002/2/Rachel+Levy.htm
  2. ^ http://www.robincmiller.com/articles/a15.htm
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