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‘Happiest Day of My Life,’ Says Sister of Brutally Slain Yeshiva Student, After Palestinian Perpetrator Found Dead in Bulgaria
by Ruthie Blum
February 26, 2016

With news emerging of the death of 51-year-old Palestinian terrorist Omar Nayef Zayed in Bulgaria, a close family member of one of his victims expressed relief in an interview with the Hebrew news site Walla on Friday. “It’s the happiest day of my life,” said Yaffa Pinchasi, the sister of 22-year-old yeshiva student Eliyahu Amedi, who was stabbed to death in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1986 by Zayed and two other Palestinians. In the wake of rumors that Zayed – whose body was found in the yard of the Palestinian Embassy in Sofia – was assassinated by Israel’s Mossad (though Bulgarian radio, according to the Times of Israel, reported he had fallen out of a fourth-floor window), Pinchasi said, “I’m glad he was annihilated and that his wife was left widowed with three children.” READ MORE