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Survivors of Terror

Three days ago, at sabbath morning services in a Manhattan synagogue, a chasidic man sat directly across from me and introduced himself. He quickly mentioned that his son is married to the daughter of Goldie Taubenfeld, the New Square, New York woman who was murdered in Tuesday's suicide bombing along with her 5 month old son, Shmuel.

He also mentioned that 16 year old Batsheva Taubenfeld, who has been described as "lightly wounded," in fact has shrapnel in an eye, was (as of Saturday) still hospitalized in Jerusalem, and will likely need to be hospitalized when she returns to the U.S.

This reminded me of the speech at last year's pro-Israel rally in Washington by Mark Sokolow, who survived both the 9/11 attack (he worked in the World Trade Center) and a bombing on Jerusalem's Jaffa Street, in which he, his wife and two daughters were wounded. Mr. Sokolow stated that following the bombing:

"We were all rushed to different hospitals, and for several agonizing hours I didn't know whether the rest of my family was alive. Thank God we all survived with what the press called "minor injuries." My wife has a severely fractured leg on which she still can't walk. My daughter and I just had surgery to reconstruct our eardrums, and my youngest daughter has lost some vision in one eye. And we all have significant shrapnel injuries and scars, not to mention the mental trauma we have all suffered."

Unfortunately, with so many people murdered by Arab terrorists, even those of us who support Israel often overlook those who have been injured, or assume that the wounded will fully recover. Some do, but many do not.
posted on 8/25/2003