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Nava (or Naava[1]) Applebaum (also spelled Appelbaum[2]) (c. 1983 – September 9, 2003[3]) was a twenty year-old woman who was murdered on the evening before her wedding by a Palestinian suicide bomber.

Biography

Applebaum was the oldest daughter to her parents David and Debra Applebaum.[1] Her father, David Applebaum, was a renown emergency room doctor who had helped suicide attack victims that were rushed to the hospital.[1] He was born in Detroit, Michigan and moved to Chicago, Illinois as teenager.[4] He was ordained as a rabbi and graduated from Northwestern with a Masters in Biology before attending the University of Toledo Medical Center.[4] He moved to Israel in 1982, but still traveled back at times to practice in the United States.[4]

Nava Applebaum was born in Israel and had graduated from Horev Girls High School.[2] Applebaum first met her fiancée, Chanan Sand, when she was 17 and he was 16 at an Ezra religious youth group, where they both served as youth group advisors.[1] They began dating a year later and have been together up until she was killed.[1] As part of her two-year Sherut Leumi service (alternative national service), Applebaum worked with children with cancer.[1][4] She planned on studying chemistry or genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1][4]

Sand and Applebaum were supposed to get married in Kibbutz Ramat Rachel[1] on September 10.[4]

Bombing

A few hours before the bombing, Applebaum had attended the mikveh, as a bride is required to do before a wedding, according to Halacha.[5] She was then helping her family with the wedding arragements when her father decided to take her out for a "father-daughter" talk before her wedding.[1][6][2][7] They went to Café Hillel on Emek Refaim Street.[1]

On the day of the bombing, September 9, security guards in the vicinity of Café Hillel on Emek Refaim Street were told to be on the lookout for a suicide bomber.[4] At around 11:20 pm, a security guard stationed at a nearby pizza parlor noticed a man walking by with a bulky square-shaped box under his shirt.[4] He yelled at the man to stop but he refused.[4] The security guard did not want to shoot him in the back for fear that it would detonate the bomb.[4] The suicide bomber denoted the bomb close to entrance of the cafe.[4] Nava and her father were entering the cafe at that time.[4] Nave was killed together with her father, David Applebaum.[4] Applebaum was dead by the time she was reached by the paramedics.[6]

Applebaum's fiancée, Chanan Sand, collapsed in the emergency room of Shaare Zedek Medical Center upon hearing that his fiancée had not survived.[2] She was buried the next day in Jerusalem,[8] where the relatives who traveled for the wedding, attended her funeral instead.[9][1] Sand attended the funeral and placed her wedding ring in the grave.[1][10]

Legacy

The poignant tragedy of a father and daughter murdered on the evening before the daughter's wedding moved Israelis, who continue to recall the tragedy years later.[11][12]

Numerous memorials and charity projects were undertaken in memory of Nava Applebaum.[5] Applebaum's unworn wedding gown was made into a covering for the ark of the Torah at Rachel's Tomb,[13][14] and the skirt of the gown was made into a wedding canopy that other bridal couples will stand under.[5]

Dr. Paige Applebaum Farkas, a Teaneck, New Jersey resident and second cousin to David Applebaum, and her brother, Dr. Eric Applebaum, also of Teaneck, raised money to build a special room for brides at the mikvah in the Har Homa neighborhood of Jerusalem.[5]

A memorial service honoring Nava and her father held in New Jersey one year after their deaths drew over a thousand people.[5]

All Bat Mitzvah girls (12 year-old girls, who become responsible for their actions according to Jewish law) of Moriah School in Englewood, New Jersey receive a book of Psalms inscribed in the memory of Nava Applebaum.[5]

A dowry fund was also established, the Naava Applebaum Kallah Fund, for brides that cannot afford the basic wedding necessities.[15][5]

In 2006, Nava's brother Yitzchak was in medical school and her sister was a paramedic planning on attending medical school.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Kordova, Shoshana (September 12, 2003). "Almost too Tragic to be True". Haaretz.
  2. ^ a b c d "Nava Appelbaum". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 9 September 2003.
  3. ^ Purpura, Philip P. (2007). Terrorism and Homeland Security: An Introduction with Applications. Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 89. ISBN 9780750678438.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Cole, Leonard A. (2007). Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America can Learn. Indiana University Press. pp. 9–15, 68–69. ISBN 9780253349187.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Goldrich, Lois (22 December 2005). "A Blessing for new Brides". Jewish Standard.
  6. ^ a b Asad, Talal (2007). On Suicide Bombing. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231141529.
  7. ^ Mickolus, Edward F.; Simmons, Susan L. (2006). Terrorism, 2002-2004: A Chronology. Praeger Security International. ISBN 9780313334757.
  8. ^ Shragai, Nadav (10 September 2003). "Bombing kills hospital ER chief and daughter". Haaretz. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ Shoag, Daniel W. (3 November 2003). "Peace, Justice and Suicide Bombings?". The Harvard Crimson.
  10. ^ Lash Balint, Judy (2007). Jerusalem Diaries II: What's Really Happening in Israel. Xulon Press. pp. 120–23. ISBN 9781602660441.
  11. ^ Collins, Liat (19 August 2010). "My Word: When Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  12. ^ Rosenbaum, Matthew (September 30, 2004). "A Night at Cafe Hillel". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.
  13. ^ Schwartz, Joshua. "The Story of Rachel's Tomb [ Hebrew: 'Al em ha-derekh: Sipuro shel Kever Rachel] (review)" (PDF). The Jewish Quarterly Review. 97 (Summer 2007). University of Pennsylvania Press. doi:10.1353. ISSN 0021-6682. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help)
  14. ^ HaLevi, Ezra (7 May 2006). "Photo Essay: A Visit to the Matriarch Rachel´s Fortified Tomb". Arutz Sheva.
  15. ^ Bender, Dave (11 Febuary 2005). "Routing for Rahel". The Jerusalem Post. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  16. ^ Siegel-Itzkovich, Judy (23 November 2006). "Dr. David Applebaum's daughter starts medical career". The Jerusalem Post.

External links

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