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[[Image:Cafe Hillel bombing memorial.JPG|thumb|Memorial plaque for bombing victims]]
The '''Café Hillel bombing''' was a [[List of Palestinian suicide attacks|Palestinian suicide bombing]] carried out on September 9, 2003 in a coffee shop in the [[German Colony, Jerusalem|German Colony neighborhood in Jerusalem]]. Seven people were killed in the attack and over 50 were injured.<ref name=Cole>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BzouWqFtv0AC&q=nava+applebaum&pg=PA9 |title=Terror: how Israel has coped and what America can learn |first=Leonard A. |last=Cole |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2007 |pages=10–17|isbn=978-0253000019 }}</ref><ref name=MFA/>

A few hours prior to the Café Hillel bombing, Palestinian militants carried out a [[Tzrifin bus stop attack|suicide attack in a bus stop next to the military base Tzrifin]].

==The attack==
On Tuesday evening, 9 September 2003 a Palestinian suicide bomber approached the "[[Café Hillel]]" coffee shop in the [[German Colony, Jerusalem|German Colony]] neighborhood of Jerusalem.<ref name=MFA>{{cite web |url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/9/Suicide%20Bombings-%20Tzrifin%20and%20Jerusalem%20-%20Septembe |title=Suicide Bombings - Tzrifin and Jerusalem - September 9- 2003 |publisher=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |date=September 9, 2003}}</ref><ref name=Shragai>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/bombing-kills-hospital-er-chief-and-daughter-1.99752 |title=Bombing kills hospital ER chief and daughter |first=Nadav |last=Shragai |author2=Kordova, Shoshana |date=September 10, 2003 |newspaper=Haaaretz}}</ref> Security guard Alon Mizrahi was attempting to prevent the bomber from entering when he blew himself up.<ref name=MFA/> At 11:20 pm the bomber detonated the explosive device he carried on his body.

Among those killed in the attack were Dr. [[David Applebaum]], head of the emergency room at [[Shaare Zedek Medical Center]] in Jerusalem, and his daughter [[Nava Applebaum|Nava]], who was to have been married the day after the bombing.

== Perpetrator ==
The attack was perpetrated by the Hamas member Ramez Abu Salim who originated from the village of [[Rantis]], and had been a student at [[Bir Zeit University]].<ref name=MFA/>

== Aftermath ==
In July 2004 Israeli military forces arrested members of a Palestinian militant squad who were involved in the execution and planning of many attacks, including the Café Hillel bombing.

On 14 March 2010 Israeli military forces caught the [[Hamas]] militant leader Maher Udda, whom participated in the execution of both these suicide attacks as well as other terrorist attack.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3862142,00.html |title=Hamas man behind deadly attacks nabbed |date=March 14, 2010 |newspaper=Ynet News}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Tzrifin bus stop attack]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/9/Suicide+Bombings-+Tzrifin+and+Jerusalem+-+Septembe.htm Suicide Bombings- Tzrifin and Jerusalem - September 9- 2003] - published at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAA8XbRjpVo Memorial video] on [[YouTube]]
* [https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-09-09-israel-bombing_x.htm Two separate suicide bombings kill at least 15 in Israel] - published on [[USA Today]] on September 9, 2003
* [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/10/world/main572448.shtml 2nd Deadly Bomb Blast Hits Israel] - published on [[CBS News]] on September 9, 2003
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3094946.stm Attacks wreck peace hopes] - published on [[BBC News]] on September 9, 2003

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