A 52-year-old Israeli woman, who has been on life support in a coma for 21 years, died in a Tel Aviv hospital on Wednesday.
Chana Tova Chaya Nachenberg, 52, was seriously injured in 2001 in a deadly bombing that cost the lives of 15 Israelis and a Palestinian attacker.
The Times Of Israeli said Chana was born in New York and was at the pizzeria that day with her daughter, three years old at the time, who escaped from the attack unharmed.
It said that Chana, who was 31, was seriously injured when a suicide bomber killed 15 civilians, including seven children, and wounded over 100 others at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem on August 9, 2001.
The Israeli woman was pronounced dead on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
Since that attack, which took place during the height of the second Palestinian intifada (uprising), Israeli forces and paramilitary settlers have been killing an average of 10 Palestinian civilians for every Israeli killed.
She had been in a coma, on life support, at Reut Hospital in Tel Aviv until about three weeks ago, when her condition worsened, and she was sent to Ichilov Hospital. The attack in which she was injured took place on August 9, 2001.
Born in New York, Nachenberg was at the pizzeria that day with her daughter, three years old at the time, who escaped from the attack physically unharmed.
Israeli authorities convicted four people of involvement in the attack, one of whom, Abdullah Barghouti, is still imprisoned with 67 life sentences.
