Swimming competition - Sportan

On March 5th 2003 on 2:15 pm a suicide bomber exploded on board bus route 37 on Moriah street in Haifa. 17 people were killed, most of them young people, nine were school students coming back from school on their way home.

In the attack were killed 17 people, amongst them a druze girl from the villages on the Carmel Mountain near Haifa, a Christian girl and a US citizen who's parents live and work in Israel, a Christian immigrant from the former soviet union, a Muslim woman on her way to work. The mix of the killed people is like a spitting image of the society in Israel.

Tal Kehrmann, 18 years old, was on her way to shop for a dress for her PROM and was killed on spot.

Tal's father, a swimmer and a trainer at the Haifa Sportan is organizing a yearly competition that many young people participate in it, both in competitive and family tracks .