Yael-Yulia Skalanic

June 2, 2001 - Yael-Yulia Skalanic, 15, of Holon, was one of 19 people killed in a suicide bombing at a Tel-Aviv discotheque shortly before midnight on Friday night. Mortally wounded in the blast, whe died the following day.

Yael-Yulia Skalanic immigrated to Israel with her family in 1990 from the former Soviet Union.

Yael was a 9th grade student at the Katzir high school in Holon. Her teacher said, "Yael was blond, blue-eyed, full of life, and always smiling."

Yael was buried in the Yarkon cemetery in Tel-Aviv.