A tragic double crisis unfolded in Tel Aviv Tuesday evening as a knife and gun attack on a tram left seven dead, including the assailants, just moments before Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel. Inbar Segev-Vigder, 33, was killed protecting her nine-month-old son Ari during the attack, while residents scrambled for safety amid conflicting instructions to shelter from both the terror attack and incoming Iranian fire.
Debbie Kay, who lives in the seaside neighbourhood of Jaffa in Tel Aviv , was arguing with her teenage son on Tuesday evening about whether or not it was safe to leave the house.
“She was literally, with her body, defending him,” Itai Dror, a close friend of Segev-Vigder’s, said in an interview after her funeral on Wednesday. But by the time the missiles were launched, Kay said, she had heard that the two assailants had been killed.For her, the terror attack was “much more scary than the Iranians”, Kay said. “It’s your worst nightmare because you’ve got no control.”
“A lot of the Jews that live in Jaffa have pride in the coexistence of the Jews and Arabs living together in the same place,” said Dror. “It’s a real shame that it happens to people who are trying to create a community life of everyone together.” Those who were there, she said, were wishing each other a better year than the last – a traditional holiday greeting made more poignant by the dark events of the past year.Israel vowed to retaliate against Iran for the missile strike
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