Victims of Jerusalem bus massacre identified

A newlywed immigrant from Spain, an American-born bakery owner, and a rabbi traveling to his yeshiva were among the six people murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack on a bus in Jerusalem.

By World Israel News Staff

The six people murdered in Monday morning’s terrorist shooting attack in Jerusalem have been identified and their names cleared for publication.

At approximately 10 a.m., two Palestinian Arab terrorists, residents of the towns of al-Qubeiba and Qatanna in Samaria, opened fire on people waiting at a bus stop at Jerusalem’s Ramot Junction before boarding an Egged bus and shooting multiple passengers at point-blank range.

Authorities believe the terrorists managed to infiltrate into Jerusalem through a hole in the security fence.

Both terrorists were shot and killed during the attack.

Six people were killed in the attack, and over a dozen wounded.

By Monday afternoon, the names and photographs of the six slain victims were approved for publication.

The victims are 79-year-old Rabbi Mordechai Steinzag; Levy Yitzhak Pash, 57; 28-year-old Yisrael Metzner; 43-year-old Rabbi Yosef David; 25-year-old Yaakov Pinto; and 60-year-old Sarah Mendelson.

Pinto, an immigrant to Israel from Spain, was a yeshiva student at the Derech Emunah Yeshiva in the central Israeli city of Lod. He had only recently married.

Mendelson, a long-time official in the Bnei Akiva Religious Zionist youth movement, was killed while heading to work.

“The Bnei Akiva movement mourns the murder of our comrade in the national leadership, Sarita (Sarah) Mendelson, may God avenge her blood, who was killed this morning by evildoers in a terrorist attack in the Ramot neighborhood,” Bnei Akiva said in a statement.

“Sarita, may God avenge her blood, worked for decades coordinating between the group’s treasury and the government, and was murdered on her way to work at the national headquarters in the Nayot neighborhood of Jerusalem.”

Pash, a resident of Tel Tzion, west of Jerusalem, worked at the Kol Torah Yeshiva. According to a report by Israel National News, Pash was killed on his way to work shortly after he gave up his ride to someone who needed medical attention.

Metzner was a resident of the capital.

An American immigrant who moved to Israel from Pennsylvania in 1993, Steinzag, a trained cardiologist, owned and operated the Dr. Mark’s bakery in Beit Shemesh.

Rabbi David, a resident of Ramot, was killed while waiting at a bus stop on his way to a local yeshiva.