This weekend marked the 10th anniversary of ISM activist Rachel Corrie's death. The 23 year old was accidentally killed in a closed military zone while interfering with anti-terror operations in Gaza.
In memory of Rachel, a vain attempt was made to get "#RememberRachel to trend on Twitter. Instead, the thread quickly filled up with reminders of the "Other Rachels " killed in this conflict. Unlike Rachel Corrie who deliberately chose to put herself in harms way, the "Other Rachels" were killed in their homes, in the streets, in the mall. They were innocent women living their lives that were targeted simply because they were Jewish women living in the state of the Jewish people.
Thank you to Jameel of the Muqata for the reminder of the "Other Rachels"- the forgotten Rachels killed in this conflict.
We remember:
Rachel Levy (aged 17, blown up in a grocery store)
Rachel Levi (19, shot while waiting for the bus)
Rachel Gavish (killed with her husband, son and father while at home celebrating a Passover meal)
Rachel Charhi (blown up while sitting in a Tel Aviv cafe, leaving three young children)
Rachel Shabo (murdered with her three sons aged 5, 13 and 16 while at home)
Rachel Ben Abu (16, blown up outside the entrance of a Netanya shopping mall)
Rachel Kol,
53, who worked at a Jerusalem hospital and was killed with her husband
in a Palestinian terrorist attack in July a few days after the London
bombs.
Rachel Sela,
82, murdered the day before Purim on March 4th, 1996 when an
Palestinian suicide bomber exploded at Dizingoff Center, Tel Aviv.
Rachel Tajgatrio, 83, murdered while shopping in Jerusalem's "Machaneh Yehuda" market when 2 bombs went off on July 30th, 1997.
Rachel Thaler,
16 years old from Ginot Shomron died of her wounds on February 27 2002,
after a Palestinian bomber exploded in a shopping mall's food court,
killing 3, wounding 30.
Rachel Tamari,
65, murdered by a Palestinian bomb on the Dan #20 bus in Ramat Gan, on
July 24, 1995. 6 Israelis died in that attack, and dozens were wounded.
Rachel Drouk,
35, mother of 7 from the Shilo community was murdered by Palestinian
terrorist gunfire while on her way to a demonstration (October 28, 1991)
-- that negotiating with Palestinian terrorists would be dangerous to
Israel. The driver of her car, Yitzchak Rofeh was also killed and 5
others wounded.
Rachel Weiss,
26, pregnant and mother of 3 small children (Rafael, Netanel and
Efraim), were all murdered by Palestinian terrorists who threw a molotov
cocktail at her car in the Jordan Valley (October 31, 1988)
Rachel Weiss,
69, stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists who were sent by Sheikh
Ahmed Yassin to as an "entrance test" to the Hamas organizations. She
was murdered in her home in Moshav Shapir, August 3rd, 1988.
Rachel Munk, 24,
[married 6 weeks earlier] was murdered in a drive-by terror attack by
on July 26, 1996, along with her husband Zeev Munk. The attack took
place on the Beit Shemesh - Kiryat Melachi road near Moshav Gefen.
Rachel Stern,
8 years old, stabbed to death, along with her mother, while eating
breakfast in their home in Kiryat Shmona, on April 11, 1974. 16 people
were murdered that day by Palestinian terrorists in that attack.
Rachel Afita, 16, murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Northern Israeli community of Maalot on May 15, 1974
Rachel Lev,
50, murdered by Palestinian terrorists when 5 bombs exploded throughout
the Haifa area on October 23, 1969 and the following day. 7 people
were killed in the attack, including her husband Eliyahu and son
Avraham.
Rachel Mizrachi, 38, stabbed to death by Arab terrorists in her home in Tiberias, October 2, 1939.
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