1 Killed, 2 wounded in Israel

Data from Israel's Ministry of Public Affairs:

Monday, May 5, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman, 27, of Ahiya, was killed and two others, his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier, were seriously wounded when terrorists fired shots at their vehicle near Shvut Rachel, in Samaria.

At 10 P.M., Gideon Lichterman went to pick up a neighbor, a reserve soldier who called to ask for a lift home from a nearby intersection. Not wanting to leave his six-year-old daughter alone, he took her along. Shots were fired at the car from an ambush, and all three were hit. The father, mortally wounded, apparently got out of the vehicle trying to reach nearby Shvut Rachel on foot to summon assistance. He was found in the brush nearby. Resuscitation efforts on the scene were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead.

Gideon, originally from Haifa, studied at the yeshiva in Ma'aleh Ephraim. He and his wife Liat had just moved from Beit El to Ahiya last summer. A neighbor, Haya Rabinovitch, related that Gideon enjoyed helping others and dreamed of developing the small agricultural settlement established six years ago as part of the Shilo bloc. The residents had planted an olive grove and built an olive press.

Gideon Lichterman will be buried in Haifa.