Knifed in the heart: gap-year girl who always wanted to be a mum

Rabbi Goldstein said: “At Chabad House she gave all of her kindliness, with her infectious smile. She would come up to me and ask if she could bake a cake, just to ‘spoil’ everyone. We are in great sorrow, and sorrow for the entire nation of Israel.”

Her death came on the heels of the deadliest day in the current two-month wave of violence. Last Thursday saw five people killed by terrorists. Three died after a Palestinian terrorist with a submachine gun opened fire on vehicles in the West Bank. The victims included Ezra Schwartz, whose murder sent shock waves through the diaspora. He was an 18-year-old from Massachusetts who was studying in an Israeli yeshivah for the year, and who was in the West Bank on a brief visit to deliver food to soldiers. Jewish teacher Yaakov Don, and a Palestinian, Shadi Arafa, were also killed. Also last Thursday, two men, Reuven Aviram and Aharon Yesayev, were murdered in Tel Aviv while attending a prayer service.

In another attack, 18-year-old Israeli soldier Ziv Mizrahi was stabbed to death after he had a minor accident while driving a military vehicle. After getting out of his vehicle to exchange information with the other driver, a Palestinian man ran up to him and knifed him.

Other attacks this week included one car-ramming, one assault that consisted of a ramming and stabbing, and four more stabbings. One of the knife attacks, in the southern city of Kiryat Gat, left four people injured, including a 13-year-old girl.