26/02/2002
View point on road 705
Terror Attack Place:
Jerusalem Neve Yaakov
Commemoration Site:
Nesher
Area:
Haifa Area
Type:
Lookout
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On Monday, February 26th, 2002, a terrorist equipped with a machine gun arrived at the Neve Yaakov Neighborhood and started shooting at everything in sight.
Galit Arbiv, 21 years old, a young police woman arrived at the site short time after the terrorist.
Galit and other policemen stormed the terrorist and killed him. During the operation Galit was hit and badly wounded, she died the next day at the Hadassah hospital.
The event as described in YNET (In Hebrew)