Funerals Sunday for Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi, killed in Friday’s shooting attack at Tel Aviv bar

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Victims of Tel Aviv shooting to be buried Sunday
by Staff
January 2, 2016

The two victims of Friday’s shooting attack in central Tel Aviv will be laid to rest Sunday. The funeral of Alon Bakal, 26, will take place in Carmiel at 3 p.m. Thirty-year-old Shimon Ruimi will be buried in Ofakim, also at 3 p.m. The two were murdered Friday when a shooter, named later as Nashat Milhem, opened fire in the city’s busy Dizengoff street at around 2:30 p.m. Bakal was a manager at the Simta bar, one of the locations hit by the gunman. Ruimi was at the bar to attend a friend’s birthday. Six more were wounded in the attack. The shooter fled and scene and remained at large on Saturday, despite heavy police deployment and extensive searches throughout the city. Alon’s father David paid tribute to his “very special” son Friday, and warned that the ongoing violence is costing the lives of the young generation of Israelis. …“[Alon] studied law and business management, he was a thriving and happy child….Yesterday he sent me a message: ‘I am having fun, I love to live.’” READ MORE

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