A gag order has been lifted on the identification of the victims of Tuesday morning’s deadly terror attack on Bus No. 78 in Jerusalem’s southeastern Armon Hanatziv neighborhood.
Both were killed during the attack by two terrorists. As one terrorist attacked the driver and sealed the doors shut, the other went through the vehicle and stabbed passengers.
One of the fallen was 51-year-old Alon Guverg, who lived alone in the neighborhood and is to be laid to rest Wednesday afternoon.
The ZAKA first responder organization is asking the public to please attend this man’s funeral at 5 pm at the Family Mourning Home in Givat Shaul, as he lived alone, a man who died a victim of terror in the holy city.
The second terror victim on the bus Tuesday morning was 78-year-old Chaim Haviv, who also is to be laid to rest Wednesday. Haviv’s wife Shoshana was on the bus as well and survived the attack but was seriously wounded. She remains hospitalized in serious condition at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
At least 16 others were physically wounded in the two attacks, and dozens of others were badly traumatized. The second attack which came just minutes after the first involved a Bezeq technician who rammed his car straight into a crowd of people standing at a bus stop on Rehov Malchei Yisrael in central Jerusalem. The terrorist then got out of the car and began stabbing those who were still standing.
Among those stabbed by the Arab Bezeq worker-turned-terrorist was Rabbi Yeshiayahu Krishevsky, who was laid to rest Tuesday afternoon.
All of the terrorists in the above attacks were residents of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukabar.
