Monday, February 28, 2005
Tel Aviv bombing toll rises to five
Odelia Hobera succumbs to her wounds.
From the JPost:
The last time Alon Hobera talked to his sister Odelia was at an army checkpoint just north of Jerusalem on Friday night.
Hobera, 28, was doing his military reserve duty over the weekend, while his 26-year-old sister was on her way to a birthday party she had organized for her girlfriend's husband at a Tel Aviv nightclub.
Odelia Hobera had dropped off some clothes for her
brother, and asked him one last time if he was sure he could not make it to the party for her girlfriend's husband, whom the Hoberas had set up.
"I told her that unfortunately I would not be able to make it to the party because I was on Sabbath guard duty," he recounted Monday.
The two parted, in what was to be their final
good-bye.
After leaving her brother, the 26-year-old arrived at the Tel Aviv nightclub at about 11:15 p.m. that fateful Friday night, only to find the club still closed.
She sent a cell phone text message to her girlfriend not to come just yet with her husband to the club.
That was to be her last message.
Minutes later, the Palestinian suicide bomber blew
himself up, mortally wounding her.
Hobera, who never regained consciousness since the
weekend blast, died early Monday morning in the
intensive care unit of Ichilov Hospital, of her
critical head wounds.
Her death brought to five the number of people killed in the Friday night blast.
"My reserve duty- this is how I was saved," her dazed brother Alon recounted Monday.
"It is a paradox that she died where it was most
characteristic of her to be - at a nightclub - since it was important for her to enjoy life," he said, calling his vibrant late sister who loved going to parties the "living spirit of the family."
Hobera, who is survived by her parents and two
brothers, will be buried at 4 p.m. Tuesday at
Jerusalem's Har Hamenuchot Cemetery, after her
boyfriend arrives back in Israel from the United
States.
The two had spoken of getting married soon, family
members said.
Twenty-two people injured in the blast remained
hospitalized Monday, including one who was still in serious condition.
From the JPost:
The last time Alon Hobera talked to his sister Odelia was at an army checkpoint just north of Jerusalem on Friday night.
Hobera, 28, was doing his military reserve duty over the weekend, while his 26-year-old sister was on her way to a birthday party she had organized for her girlfriend's husband at a Tel Aviv nightclub.
Odelia Hobera had dropped off some clothes for her
brother, and asked him one last time if he was sure he could not make it to the party for her girlfriend's husband, whom the Hoberas had set up.
"I told her that unfortunately I would not be able to make it to the party because I was on Sabbath guard duty," he recounted Monday.
The two parted, in what was to be their final
good-bye.
After leaving her brother, the 26-year-old arrived at the Tel Aviv nightclub at about 11:15 p.m. that fateful Friday night, only to find the club still closed.
She sent a cell phone text message to her girlfriend not to come just yet with her husband to the club.
That was to be her last message.
Minutes later, the Palestinian suicide bomber blew
himself up, mortally wounding her.
Hobera, who never regained consciousness since the
weekend blast, died early Monday morning in the
intensive care unit of Ichilov Hospital, of her
critical head wounds.
Her death brought to five the number of people killed in the Friday night blast.
"My reserve duty- this is how I was saved," her dazed brother Alon recounted Monday.
"It is a paradox that she died where it was most
characteristic of her to be - at a nightclub - since it was important for her to enjoy life," he said, calling his vibrant late sister who loved going to parties the "living spirit of the family."
Hobera, who is survived by her parents and two
brothers, will be buried at 4 p.m. Tuesday at
Jerusalem's Har Hamenuchot Cemetery, after her
boyfriend arrives back in Israel from the United
States.
The two had spoken of getting married soon, family
members said.
Twenty-two people injured in the blast remained
hospitalized Monday, including one who was still in serious condition.
