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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (4469)	5/20/2002 3:39:34 PM
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Israel is a very small place. Man Survives Attack But Dies in Another Mon May 20, 1:15 PM ET By CELEAN JACOBSON, Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - After Arkady Wieselman narrowly escaped Israel's deadliest suicide bombing by walking out of a hotel dining room moments before a blast killed 29 people, he phoned his family to say his survival was a miracle. Audio/Video Suicide Bombers Hits Israeli Produce Stand (AP) After Sunday's blast in the vegetable market in Wieselman's home city of Netanya, his family's phone was silent. Nearly two months after surviving the suicide blast at the hotel, Wieselman, along with two other Israelis, was killed in the city's market by a suicide bomber dressed like a soldier. Moments before his death, Wieselman had phoned his wife, Victoria, to say he was on his way home. When she tried to phone him back after she heard about the bombing, there was no answer. '"Arkady always said: 'We were so lucky. God loved us.' So here now God took him," Wieselman's colleague Pinchas Zevulonova told the daily Yediot Ahronot. Wieselman, a chef at the Park Hotel, had helped prepare a meal traditional Passover Seder meal on March 27 when a suicide bomber wearing 40 pounds of explosives walked into the packed dining hall. Just before the bomber blew himself up, Wieselman had left the dining room to get something from the kitchen's freezer. After the blast, Wieselman phoned his family and told them: "I was saved by a miracle" the local daily Yediot Ahronot reported. "On the eve of Passover, we were saved by a miracle," Zevulonova said. "Since then we have not stopped talking about this miracle and the security situation." Hotel manager Rina Hamamy said she arrived at the scene five minutes after the dining room explosion to find Wieselman tending to the injured. "He helped save the people. I thought it was impossible that something like this would happen again to the people at the hotel," she said. Hamamy's husband, Ami, died two days later of injuries sustained in the blast. Following his death Wieselman cared for her family, cooking meals during the mourning period and providing emotional support. "Arkady was with me, and now everything begins again," Hamamy said. The attack in March triggered a widespread military operation by Israel in the West Bank, which greatly slowed the number of bombings in the country. The attack Sunday was the 11th time in two years the town, close to the border between Israel and the West Bank, was targeted. Hamamy said Wieselman, a Russian immigrant, was a gentle man and a devoted father and husband who feared for his family's safety amid the violence. "He was upset about all these terror attacks in Netanya. He has two children and he was afraid it could happen at their school, anywhere. It is going to be hard for his family. We pray and hope that this will end," she said. More from > World - AP Middle East