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Attacks (since 1970)

Attack — Road to Itamar (Henkin couple)

1ᵉʳ oct. 2015·Route d'Itamar (couple Henkin)

Toll
2

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Eitam and Naama Henkin are shot dead in their car on the road to Itamar, in Samaria, as they were returning from a festive evening. Their four children, seated in the back, are found unharmed beside their parents' bodies.

The attack opens the wave of knife and car-ramming attacks that would occupy the following autumn and winter, in Jerusalem as well as in the West Bank. Naama Henkin, a graphic designer, was the daughter of a family of academics; Eitam Henkin, a researcher in the history of Judaism, was preparing work on the beginnings of religious Zionism. The presence of the children in the vehicle made this attack one of the most widely discussed episodes of the period.

Period :
Attacks (since 1970)
Type :
Attack
Region :
Land of Israel
Country :
Israël
Sources

Ministère israélien des Affaires étrangères, chronologie des victimes du terrorisme ; chroniques de presse contemporaines.

At the same place1

  1. 11 mars 2011Assassination of the Fogel family (Itamar)5

In the same country67

  1. 1099Siege and capture of the city by the crusaders of Tancredtoute la communauté
  2. août 1929Riots of 19296
  3. 30 déc. 1947After a grenade attack at the entrance, Jewish workers at the refinery are attacked by the crowd39
  4. 13 mai 1948Fall of the Etzion Bloc~129
  5. 17 mars 1954Bus attack11
  6. 1956Attack on the Kfar Chabad agricultural school6
  7. 22 mai 1970Attack on the Avivim school bus12
  8. 30 mai 1972Attack — Lod Airport26 (dont 17 pèlerins chrétiens portoricains)

And 59 more in the catalogue.

Event 2447 of 2483, in chronological order · Attacks (since 1970): 174 events in the catalogue