ISRAEL: STUDENTS AT A TEL AVIV SCHOOL ARE MOURNING THEIR FRIENDS WHO WERE AMONG 19 PEOPLE KILLED IN A SUICIDE BOMB EXPLOSION

Record ID: 400824

  • Title: ISRAEL: STUDENTS AT A TEL AVIV SCHOOL ARE MOURNING THEIR FRIENDS WHO WERE AMONG 19 PEOPLE KILLED IN A SUICIDE BOMB EXPLOSION
  • Date: 3rd June 2001
  • Summary: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (JUNE 3, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV STUDENTS IN THE 'SHEVAH' HIGH SCHOOL LIGHTING CANDLES AT A MEMORIAL DESK 0.03 2. PAN BOOKS SHOWING THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF STUDENTS KILLED BY THE BOMB 0.13 3. SLV STUDENT READING A NEWSPAPER COVERING THE BOMB STORY 0.17 4. CU STUDENT HOLDING A WREATH OF FLOWERS 0.21 5.
  • Embargoed: 18th June 2001 13:00
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  • Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVACD311LFPSJN3ECD6V773XJYHV
  • Story Text: Students at a Tel Aviv school are mourning their
    friends who were among 19 people killed on Friday when a
    Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up outside a
    beachfront nightclub.



    It could be the aftermath of an American high school
    shooting: trendily dressed teenagers exchanging tears and
    embraces of comfort, a sea of candles on the basketball court,
    and heavily armed figures in the car park.

    But the similarity of the scene belies the differences
    between the Middle East and the Midwest.

    The killer of Shevah High's teenagers was not some
    troubled adolescent with a rifle and a list of grudges against
    fellow pupils, but a Palestinian stranger with a bomb and just
    one thing against his victims -- that they were Israeli Jews.

    The suicide bombing at Tel Aviv's Dolphin Disco on Friday
    killed five of the school's students and two former students,
    out of a total 20 dead. Of 90 injured, a dozen are from
    Shevah.

    Some 90 percent of the school's 1,400 pupils are
    immigrants from Russia or other parts of the former Soviet
    Union, and as a favourite nightspot for young ex-Soviets the
    Dolphin was almost the school's unofficial dance hall.

    "There are so many Russian families that came to Israel
    they came to live here, to give their kids a future, they
    didn't come here to bury those kids", said Janet, a school
    student.

    The photographs of those being buried on Sunday decorated
    the walls of the school over a table covered with Jewish
    memorial candles and flowers. Among the dead were sisters
    Yelena and Yuli Nelimov, aged 18 and 16, who emigrated from
    Russia five years ago with their mother.

    Some examinations due this week at the school have been
    cancelled. Counselling has been offered to Shevah students.

    Jewish youngsters of Soviet origin commute long distances
    from many parts of Israel to attend Shevah, which has a
    glittering reputation for science study and in the early 1990s
    began to employ highly-qualified teachers from Russia.



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