Terrorism Against Israel In 2001

Terrorism against Israel: Pre-2000 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 This page is a partial listing of incidents of terrorism against Israel in 2001. Note: This compilation includes only casualties of the violence. Attacks which did not result in death or injury are not included.

Total Civilian Death Toll in 2001: 203

MDT stands for Monthly Civilian Death Toll and the number after denotes how many Israelis were killed by terrorist attack that month.

January (MDT: 6)

  • January 14: a settler was murdered.
  • January 17: a 16 year old Israeli youth was seduced by a Palestinian woman and murdered by her accomplices.
  • January 23: Mordehai Dayan, 27, & Etgar Zeitouny, 34, both of Tel Aviv, were abducted from a restaurant where they had been peacefully eating and shot to death in Tul Karem.
  • January 25: an Israeli was killed in a shooting attack in Atarot (a suburb of Jerusalem).
  • January 29: an Israeli was killed in a drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem.

February (MDT: 13)

  • February 1: two Israelis—Dr. Shmuel Gillis, 42, from Karmei Tzur, and another individual—were murdered in different places in the West Bank while driving in their cars. Dr. Gillis left behind a wife and five children.
  • February 11: an Israeli, Tzahi Sasson, 35, of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim, was shot dead while driving between his home and Jerusalem. He left behind a wife and three children.
  • February 26: the body of an Israeli was found; autopsy and investigation indicated that he was probably killed by Palestinian terrorists.

March (MDT: 8)

  • March 1: an Israeli was murdered in a suicide bombing in a taxi.
  • March 4: 3 elderly Israelis were murdered in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya. Hamas claimed responsibility.
  • March 19: an Israeli was murdered in a gunfire attack while driving.
  • March 26: Shalhevet Pas, a 10-months-old girl, was shot dead by a Palestinian sniper while being held in her mother's arms. Her father, Yitzhak, 25, was also injured by the gunfire in Hebron.
  • March 28: two Israelis were murdered in a suicide bombing. Hamas claimed responsibility.

April (MDT: 7)

  • April 1: An Israeli woman was stabbed to death on a Haifa street.
  • April 21: the mutilated body of an Israeli was found near Ramallah; terrorists were suspected of responsibility.
  • April 22: An Israeli-American doctor was killed and 60 others were wounded by a suicide bomber in Kfar Saba. Hamas claimed responsibility.
  • April 22: 3 people were injured when a bomb exploded at Check Post Junction in Haifa.
  • April 23: In Or Yehuda, a car bomb wounded eight Israelis who were transported to the Sheba Medical Center.
  • April 27: Two persons were injured and hospitalized after being injured by a bomb detonated at the gate of Moshav Netzer-Hazani in southern Gaza.
  • April 27: Simcha Ron was murdered by terrorists affiliated with the Omar el-Muktar organization at Kfar Ba'aneh where his body was found the following morning.
  • April 28: an off-duty Israeli soldier was killed and 4 women were injured in a drive-by shooting in the Galilee.
  • April 28: An Israeli woman was stabbed to death in Karmiel, Galilee.
  • April 28: Netzer Hazani was bombarded by mortar fire from the Gaza Strip; five were wounded and transported to hospital.
  • April 28: A Romanian guest worker was stabbed to death in a taxi near Shoresh while riding from the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station to Jerusalem.
  • April 29: A suicide bomber detonated his car bomb alongside a school bus near Shavei Shomron. There were no injuries to the children on the school bus due to its armor plating.
  • April 30: A 30-year-old female resident of the Shomron community of Ganim was stabbed in her home community by an Arab and hospitalized.
  • April 30: A terrorist placed a bomb under the car of a couple in Rafiach Yam. The bomb detonated prematurely, wounding the car owner and his wife. The terrorist died from his bomb.

May (MDT: 19)

  • May 1: a Israeli was killed by gunfire while driving.
  • May 6: five persons were injured from a bomb explosion at a bus stop in Petah Tikvah.
  • May 8: Aryeh Arnaldo Agronyoni, 44, was shot and stabbed to death by terrorists during the night as he stood guard at Givat HaGidonim near Itamar.
  • May 9: two 14-year Israelis boys were stoned to death.
  • May 10: two Romanian workmen were killed and a third injured in a roadside bomb attack in Gaza near the Sufa Checkpoint.
  • May 13: An Israeli motorist was shot near Maale Ephraim in the Shomron.
  • May 13: A Israeli from the Shomron community of Maale Levonah was shot on the road between Sinjel and Maale Levonah.
  • May 15: An Israeli young woman was killed by gunfire while driving.
  • May 18: 5 Israelis were killed and over 100 were wounded in a suicide bombing in Netanya. Hamas claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier off-duty was killed by gunfire while driving.
  • May 23: Asher Iluz, 33, from Modi'in, was shot while driving. He died of his wounds several hours later. A second victim was wounded by gunfire.
  • May 23: An 86-year-old Israeli was shot in the chest in Jerusalem. The gunfire came from Palestinian Authority-controlled Beit Jala.
  • May 25: The burnt body of an Israeli was found near Tulkarem.
  • May 25: Fourteen were wounded when a suicide car bomb was detonated in Hadera adjacent to the central bus station.
  • May 27: 36 Israelis were injured by a car bomb containing mortar rockets, nails, and bullets in downtown Jerusalem.
  • May 27: A car bomb exploded shortly after midnight in the parking lot of the Russian Compound in downtown Jerusalem.
  • May 28: Two persons were wounded in shooting attack near the community of Migdalim.
  • May 29: Israeli Gilad Zar, 41, was killed by gunfire while driving between Yitzhar and Kedumim. Fatah claimed responsibility.
  • May 29: Arab terrorists fired at the funeral procession of Gilad Zar.
  • May 29: Sara Blaustein, 53, and Esther Elvan, 20, both from Efrat, were murdered by terrorist gunfire while driving toward Jerusalem. Three others in the vehicle were wounded.
  • May 29: Two Israelis were wounded by a suicide bomber in the Gaza Strip.
  • May 30: Six people were wounded when a car bomb exploded in the city of Netanya.
  • May 31: Tzvika Shalef, aged 63, of Mevo Dotan, was shot and killed in a drive-by terrorist attack.

June (MDT: 30)

  • June 1: 21 Israeli young people were murdered by a Hamas suicide bombing near a disco club near the Tel-Aviv Dolphinarium.
  • June 5: 5 -month-old Haim Yehuda Shoham was mortally wounded in a stone-throwing attack not far from his home in Shilo. He died of his wounds six days later in Hadassah Hospital.
  • June 12: Gur Pzipokatsatakis, 35, of Wadi Kelt, a monk of the Greek Orthodox community, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by shooting on the Maaleh Adumim road. Marwan Barghouti was sentenced to life imprisionment for his role in this murder.
  • June 13: A 41-year-old Petah Tikvah resident working on the Trans-Israel Highway was hit by gunfire originating in Palestinian Authority-controlled Tul Karem. He was transported to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.
  • June 13: A 21-year-old female was shot twice at the entrance to Ofrah.
  • June 14: Three persons were wounded by terrorist gunfire when an Israeli vehicle was attacked near N'vei Tzuf on the Abud Bypass Road.
  • June 18: Doron Zisserman, 38, from Einav, a father of 4, was murdered by a Fatah terrorist.
  • June 18: Danny Yehuda, 35, from Homesh, was murdered by a Fatah terrorist; 16-year-old Alex Briskin was wounded.
  • June 18: An Israeli was wounded in a terrorist shooting attack near Ateret.
  • June 20: Ilya Krivitz, 62, of Homesh, was killed in a shooting attack near his home.
  • June 25: Two people were wounded by Arab gunfire against a public bus traveling from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion.
  • June 28: Katrina Weintraub, 27, of Ganim, was murdered in a shooting attack in the Shomron.

July (MDT: 11)

  • July 2: Rabbi Aaron Ovidyan, 41, the father of four, was shot and murdered by Arab terrorists near Baka el-Sharqiya.
  • July 2: Yair Har Sinai, 51, of Sussia, was shot to death in a terror attack near his home town.
  • July 2: Avi Romano, of Har Bracha, was shot and wounded in a shooting attack on a public road.
  • July 2: A car bomb exploded Yahud. Several minutes later, a second bomb exploded in the same city. Six persons were treated for injuries resulting from the attacks.
  • July 4: Eliyahyu Ne'eman, aged 36, father of three, of Petach Tikvah, was murdered in a shooting attack near Baka el-Garbiya.
  • July 8: Avital Lehman, 18, from Eli, was shot by Arab terrorists in her shoulder and back while on southbound intercity bus #178 bus.
  • July 12: Yechezkel Mualem, 49, of Kiryat Arba, was murdered at Lapid Junction, the eastern entrance to Kiryat Arba. Shmuel Ben-Basset was wounded in the attack.
  • July 12: Erez Shmuelian, 25, his wife, and their infant daughter were shot near the entrance to the community of Har Bracha.
  • July 12: David Cohen, 31, a resident of Betar Illit, was shot and critically wounded.
  • July 13: An Israeli was shot and killed.
  • July 16: Two persons were murdered and ten injured when suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Binyamina train station.
  • July 19: About 30, mostly civilians, were injured in a suicide bombing in a civilian train station. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
  • July 24: Uri (Yuri) Gushtzin, 18 years old, of Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood of Jerusalem, was shot and stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists in Palestinian Authority-controlled Ramallah.
  • July 25: Two Israelis were wounded by terrorist gunfire near Morag.
  • July 26: An Israeli youth was murdered while driving with his father near Jerusalem.
  • July 26: A bus driver was wounded in a bomb attack near Einav.
  • July 29: An Israeli was wounded when a bomb exploded in an underground parking lot in Jerusalem.
  • July 31: Haim Ezer, 18 years old, was stabbed in Petach Tikvah by three residents of the Israeli Arab community of Kfar Kassam.
  • July 31: Five Israelis were wounded when Arabs fired on two vehicles in the Kiryat Sefer area.

August (MDT: 30)

  • August 5: Techiya Bloomberg, 5 months pregnant with the her sixth child, was murdered by Palestinian terrorist gunfire. Her husband Shimon and daughter Tzipi, 14, were both seriously wounded, sustaining permanent disabilities. Another child and a hitch-hiker were wounded.
  • August 5: A terrorist using a M-16 fired at people in front of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. More than eight people were wounded.
  • August 6: Yitzhak Snir, 51, was shot in the back 5 times and killed in Amman, Jordan. He was a partner in a Jordanian-Israeli firm.
  • August 7: An Israeli Arab from Taibeh was killed in Arab terrorist shooting attack near Kalkilya.
  • August 7: Zohar Shurgi, 40, of Moshav Yafit was killed in a shooting attack.
  • August 9: 15 people (including an American tourist, a Brazilian tourist, and 7 children aged 16 years old and younger) were killed and 130 were injured in the Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
  • August 9:Aliza Malka, 17, was killed and four others were wounded in a terrorist shooting attack near Kibbutz Meirav in the Gilboa region.
  • August 12: 21 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the Wall Street Cafe in Kiryat Motzkin. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
  • August 15:Yitzhak Nedam was wounded by Arab gunfire near Maale Adumim.
  • August 17: an Israeli was wounded by terrorist gunfire while driving in the Hevron Hills.
  • August 18: Andrew Raibi, 20, and Ruth Shapira, 6, were wounded by terrorist gunfire while riding on a number 45 bus at Pisgat Ze'ev/Hizme Junction in northern Jerusalem.
  • August 20: Hader el Hatib, an Israeli Arab aged 26, was killed in a terrorist shooting attack.
  • August 22: Two people were wounded when terrorists fired at a garbage truck.
  • August 23: Tzviel Yehuda Meshulam, age 11, and his brother Matanel, age 21, were shot by Arab terrorists.
  • August 25: Yaniv and Sharon Ben-Shalom were killed by Arab terrorists; their two children (aged 8 and 18 months) and Doron Saviri, a relative, were wounded. Saviri died of his wounds the following day.
  • August 26: an Israeli was invited to an Arab village and then killed.
  • August 27: Rabbi Meir Lizenberg, father of five children, was shot and killed in a roadside ambush between Elon Moreh and Itamar in Samaria.
  • August 27: Uri Mizrahi, 58 years of age, of Gilo, a suburb of Jerusalem, was wounded by terrorist gunfire originating in Beit Jala.
  • August 27: Ben Dansker, 50, of Efrat, was wounded in terrorist shooting attack near Beit Shemesh.
  • August 27: A motorist was wounded in a shooting attack near Kedar.
  • August 28: Haim Meidar of Hashmonaim was shot by terrorists.
  • August 29: Oleg Sodnikov, 35, of Ashdod, was shot to death by terrorists.
  • August 30: Amos Tajuri, 60, of Modi'in, was murdered, shot point-blank in the back of the head, at a restaurant in Arab Na'alin near Kiryat Sefer

September (MDT: 14)

October (MDT: 14)

November (MDT: 14)

December (MDT: 37)

  • December 1: 11 young people were killed by a suicide bombing in an entertainment area in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility.
  • December 2: 15 were killed and more than 40 wounded in a suicide bus bombing in Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility.
  • December 12: a bus full of civilians was attacked by gunfire and grenades near the settlement Emmanuel. 10 were killed and over 30 were wounded. Both Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility.

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