A former Bais Kaila talmidah tragically passed away today, 22 years after being critically injured in the Sbarro pizza shop suicide bombing in Yerushalayim on August 9, 2001.
Chana Nachenberg hy”d attended Bais Kaila as a teenager, and is now the sixteenth victim of the attack. At the time of the attack, Chana hy”d was a 31-year-old mother sitting in the pizza shop with her only child, a two-year-old girl. One of the many nails packed into the bomb set off at the pizza shop struck Chana’s chest, and she had been in a coma ever since.
“Her daughter, our granddaughter, is 24 now,” Chana’s father, Yitzchok Feiner, told Israeli media. “My daughter would have been 53 in another month. Since the attack, 21 years and nine months have passed, during which my daughter has been unconscious in the Reut [rehabilitation] Hospital in Tel Aviv. Three weeks ago, she was hospitalized at Ichilov Hospital and that’s where she passed away.”
The levaya took place on Thursday at the bais hakevaros in Modi’in.
The proper word is “niftar” or “niftarah” not “nifteres” which is a noun. A deceased person is a “nifteres”. The verb that means died is niftar by a male and nifterah by a female.