LONG READS Issue 947 · February 1, 2023

Splitting at the Seams

Trail of terror on Friday night: Report from the site of the Neve Yaakov terror attack

Splitting at the Seams
Photos: Pinchas Emanuel, Flash90

People walk around with that half-dazed, puffy-eyed look of grief that comes with sudden tragedy.

A table of cookies and drinks stands on the side, per Sephardic custom, and a man arrives with a load of chairs for the mourners. But the television crews combing the busy intersection below are an indication that this is no ordinary shivah house.

Just 20 meters below the Mizrahis’ balcony, an Arab terrorist shattered the Friday night peace with a horrific rampage.

Outside a shul on the Tabenkin intersection, the murderer pumped round after round into the bodies of defenseless Jews out for a stroll after the Shabbos meal. Bullet holes from the shooting spree pockmark a neighbor’s windows.

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