Mordechai Avraham

Nov 28, 2002 - Mordechai Avraham, 44, of Beit She'an was one of six people killed when two terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary.

At around 3:20 P.M. two terrorists arrived in a stolen vehicle, opened fire and threw grenades at people crowding around the Likud branch, which is located near the central bus station. Both terrorists were killed by a Border Police officer who lives in the area. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, in which six were killed and over 40 wounded. The terrorists were killed by an off-duty Border Policeman.

A practical engineer by profession, Motti Avraham was a member of the Beit She'an city council, the city where he was born and raised. "Politics was his whole life," said a neighbor. As local representative for Benjamin Netanyahu in the primaries, he had spent the morning at the Likud party office, and then gone home for lunch. He returned in the afternoon and was killed in the attack.