TERROR WAVE
A terrorist shot dead three people and wounded 10 others at the Ilka Bar on Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street on April 10. The victims were Tomer Morad and Eytam Magini, two childhood friends both aged 27, and Barak Lufan, 35, a father of three and former kayak champion who coached Israel’s Paralympic team and the national kayak team. The gunman was later killed by security forces in Jaffa. A terrorist killed five people in a shooting in Bnei Brak on March 29: Police officer Amir Khoury, 32, who managed to kill the terrorist before succumbing to his own wounds, Ya’akov Shalom, 36, a father of four, school teacher Rabbi Avishai Yehezkel, 29, and Victor Sorokopot, 38, and Dimitri Mitrik, 23, foreign workers from Ukraine. Security forces launched a joint operation to stem the tide of terror dubbed “Break the Wave,” targeting terrorist operations in the northern West Bank
