Miriam Waxman

May 18, 2001 - Miriam Waxman, 51, of Hadera was killed in a suicide bombing at Hasharon Mall in the seaside city of Netanya.

Miriam Waxman was shopping in the Hasharon Mall when the terrorist exploded the bomb he was carrying at the entrance to the shopping mall. Four other people were killed in the blast and over 100 were injured. Her husband Yosef was critically injured.

Miriam taught management at the Hadassah Neurim boarding school. Her brother, Haim Washler, described her as "charismatic and a perfectionist in everything she did." She loved animals, and raised parakeets, dogs, cats and fish in her Hadera home.

Their two sons, Chen and Hanoch, who are studying dentistry in Romania, returned home for the funeral.

Miriam Waxman was buried in Hadera.