St.-Sgt. Liat Ben-Ami

October 21, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Liat Ben-Ami, 20, a border policewoman from Haifa, was one of 14 persons killed when a bus was blown up in a suicide attack by a terrorist driving an explosives-laden jeep near the Karkur junction.

Ben-Ami had boarded the No. 841 Egged bus at the stop adjacent to the Border Police Memorial in Wadi Ara, where she served as a guide. She had previously served in a combat unit along the Green Line and did patrols in the Jenin region. "When she was in dangerous places nothing happened to her," said Kobi Levi, a family friend. "And just now, she gets killed on her way home."

Liat, daughter of Mordechai and Shoshana, grew up on Rothschild Street in Haifa's Kiryat Eliezer section. She is also survived by an older brother, who is in the army, and a 17-year-old sister. Liat's teachers described her as a wonderful young woman who succeeded in all her pursuits at Haifa's Aleph High School.

St.-Sgt. Liat Ben-Ami will be buried in the military section of the Neveh David Cemetery in Haifa.