The Jewish Home | MARCH 31, 2022
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Ukraine Refugee Wins Jerusalem Marathon
A Ukrainian refugee, Valentyna Veretska, won the women’s race at the Jerusalem marathon on Friday after fleeing her home country together with her 11-year-old daughter. A well-known Ukrainian athlete, Veretska, 32, completed the race with a time of 2:45:54, holding up Israeli and Ukrainian flags as she celebrated victory. Her husband remains in Ukraine, fighting against Russia.
Israel Hayom reported that Veretska had been planning to run in the Jerusalem marathon before the war broke out and that she hoped her participation would help focus the world on the Ukrainians’ plight. Israeli Olympic athlete Ageze Guadie won the men’s race, clocking in at 2:37:17.
Horrific Bnei Brak Terror Attack
Five people were murdered when a terrorist went on a shooting spree in Bnei Brak on Tuesday evening. Officer Amir Khoury, 32, a Christian Arab, had served on the Bnei Brak’s police station motorcyclist responders team. He was part of a team that drove in to stop the murder spree and killed the gunman. Unfortunately, Khoury died of his wounds. Two Ukrainian foreign workers were killed as they sat outside a grocery store
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talking to each other when the gunman shot them point-blank. Residents Yaakov Shalom, 36, and Avishai Yehezkel, 29, two frum residents of the Bnei Brak community were murdered in the attack. Yaakov Shalom was driving home when he was stopped by the gunman, who opened fire on his vehicle from a close range. Yaakov’s father was Rabbi Meir Shalom, a prominent leader of the Yemenite community in Bnei Brak, who died last year of COVID. Yaakov has four children. Avishai Yehezkel was taking his twoyear-old son for a walk on Tuesday night when he was murdered. He died protecting his son. His wife, now a young widow, is eight months pregnant. Ovadia Yehezkel, Avishai’s brother, mourned the loss at the levaya on Wednesday morning. “Last night the world turned upside down. You called me and said, ‘I hear shots, be careful, stay inside the house.’ And that’s it. I heard no more from you. You cared for us more than you cared for yourself,” he said. “You cared for your son, you did not give up, you took the bullets like an eagle. You said: ‘It would be better for him to hurt me than the child,’” Ovadia said, alluding to the allegory of the bird that protects its young. Just hours later, the Bnei Brak community joined together in loss once again at Yaakov Shalom’s levaya. Yaakov’s son, Uriel, told mourners his father was “wise, loving and caring.” Yaakov’s brother-in-law described the exceptional middah of kibbud av v’eim Yaakov had for his parents. The terrorist was identified by police as Diaa Hamarsheh, 26, a Palestinian from the town of Ya’bad near Jenin in the West Bank who was in Israel illegally. TV reports said there were celebrations outside his family home and in other Palestinian cities later Tuesday. Hamarsheh arrived in Bnei Brak in a vehicle and disembarked on Jabotinsky Street at 7:56 p.m, according to Channel 13. While standing in front of a local store, he pulled out his weapon and tried to fire at passersby, barely missing a pedestrian and a man on his bicycle. The attacker then continued to Bialik Street, but did not find anyone there, so he moved on to a nearby grocery store where he shot dead two people. Hamarsheh continued to fire at passersby, but his gun jammed briefly. A car being driven by Shalom then passed by. Hamarsheh shouted “stop” as he pointed his rifle through the window and fired,
killing Shalom. The attack, the third deadly terror incident in a week, underlined concerns about an escalating wave of violence ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “Israel is facing a wave of murderous Arab terrorism,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett noted. “The security forces are at work. We will fight terrorism with persistence, diligence and an iron fist.”
Balloon Detects Missiles
The IDF last week received from the Defense Ministry a new balloon equipped with an advanced aircraft and missile detection system, the Times of Israel reported. The system, named “Elevated Sensor” or “Sky Dew,” works on radar and is currently deployed in northern Israel. It is deployed at high altitudes in order to detect incoming missiles and drones. Israel Air Force Commander Amikam Norkin said the new system will “enable [air traffic control] to build a more accurate and broader air surveillance picture.” It will also help “make the air force more prepared and assist it in continuing its mission — maintaining security in the skies of Israel,” he added. Moshe Patel, Director of Israel’s Missile Defense Organization, said, “The ‘Sky Dew’ system was a challenging task that we set for ourselves about a decade ago. “This aerostat system will cruise at high altitudes and provide an exceptional multi-directional detection capability against advanced threats.” The aerostat was developed jointly by Israel’s Missile Defense Organization and the United States’ Missile Defense Agency.
2 Killed in ISIS Terror Attack Border Police officers Yezan Falah and Shirel Abukarat, both 19, were murdered on Sunday evening in a shooting
