Shaul Nehmad

Mar 2, 2002 - Shaul Nehmad, 15, of Rishon Lezion was one of 10 people killed in a suicide bombing on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem.

The Nehmad family had come to Jerusalem for Shabbat to celebrate a family bar mitzvah at the Mahane Israel yeshiva in Jerusalem. When the Sabbath ended and guests started to leave, the Nehmad family gathered on the street outside for the havdalah ceremony (held at the conclusion of the Sabbath).

Shaul's father, Ezra, asked him to bring some wine from the yeshiva. Shauli twice ran to fetch some wine. The explosion went off as he was returning the second time. Shauli died on the spot. His older brother Eli, 16, who was a short distance behind him, was badly injured. He lost an arm.

Also killed in the blast were Ezra Nehmad's brother Shlomo, along with his wife and two daughters, and his sister Ronit Ilan's two children.

Shaul's family has had a tough time accepting the fact that their son is gone. "He was a good boy, who studied in the Or Gaon yeshiva in Bnei Brak," said his brother-in-law, David Malkha. "He had a great mind. We studied together, and had philosophical conversations."

Shaul Nehmad was buried in Rishon Lezion, together with his relatives. He is survived by his parents, a brother, and two sisters.