Roni Yisraeli

May 18, 2003 - Roni Yisraeli, 34, of Jerusalem was one of seven people killed in a suicide bombing on Egged bus no. 6 near French Hill in Jerusalem.

The bus bombing took place at 5:45 A.M. near the French Hill neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. The suicide bomber, disguised as a religious Jew, boarded the bus and detonated the bomb shortly afterwards. Seven passengers were killed and about 20 wounded.

Roni Yisraeli was on his way to work as deputy manager of the Har Nof Supersol supermarket when he was killed. The family had moved from Ma'ale Adumim to their new apartment in East Pisgat Ze'ev just a few months ago. His wife Siggi used the family car to go to work as a secretary in the Jerusalem College of Management and Roni took the bus.

Roni, the the fourth of six brothers and three sisters, was spared in May 2002 in the suicide bombing at the Supersol in Kiryat Yovel. He was killed just a day before his appointment as manager of the Har Nof branch. Shoppers at the supermarket said they remembered Roni, a longtime Supersol employee, as kind and considerate.

His daughter Eden, 8, said, " Now we will write only Mommy's name on the mail box. I drew a big picture with a television for Abba [Daddy], because he always watched television."

Roni Yisraeli was buried in Jerusalem. He is survived by his parents, five brothers and three sisters, his wife Siggi, and their two daughters - Eden, 8, and Shir, 2.