Father vows revenge

Yael Orbach, who was killed in Friday's deadly suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was buried on Sunday in Kfar Sava. (Haaretz)



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Last update - 15:42 27/02/2005
Father of bombing victim vows to avenge daughter's death
By Tzahar Rotem and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents

Hundreds of people took part in the funeral of Yael Orbach, who was killed in Friday's deadly suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, on Sunday in Kfar Sava.

Orbach's father, Yisrael Orbach, said during the funeral that he had served in the Israel Defense Forces together with Ariel Sharon and Mossad chief Meir Dagan in the same unit, the elite Ramon reconnaissance unit, and called on them to avenge his daughter's death.

Otherwise, he would do it himself, Orbach said, "in a way not yet seen."

Yael Orbach was due to marry her boyfriend of four years, Ofir Gonen, in three weeks, and had started to hand out invitations to the wedding just Thursday. The couple went to the Stage club on Friday night for a night out, and Orbach was killed in the suicide attack, while Gonen was moderately wounded and is currently hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer.

Many relatives and friends came to visit Orbach's family in Rehovot on Saturday upon hearing the news, while Gonen's parents, who were in Germany at the time of the attack, returned to Israel immediately. "My daughter was killed by base murderers at the prime of her life," Orbach's mother, Helen Solomon-Ziebinsky, said in a statement. "She was about to marry her beloved. She was full of life, a good soul, always ready to help."

Orbach had studied acting, and was working at a Tel Aviv law firm.

She is survived by her parents and two brothers. Her funeral will take place at noon today in Kfar Sava.