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Yael Orbach, 28, three weeks before her wedding
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Aryeh Nagar, 37
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Itzik Buzaglo, 40
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Ronen Rubenov, 28
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| By Associated Press February 27, 2005 |
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| Nagar funeral (AP) |
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It was to have been a surprise birthday party for a friend. But the celebration at a Tel Aviv nightclub turned into tragedy Friday when a suicide bombing killed four of the revelers and wounded dozens of other people at the club.
Many of those attending the party for Yaron Grayevsky were men who served together in an army reserve company and their spouses.
"This is a close, courageous relationship from the reserves which spilled over into civilian life," Grayevsky, who had not yet shown up at the club at the time of the attack, told the Haaretz daily. Grayevsky spent much of the night running between hospitals to check which of his friends were killed and wounded.
One of those killed was Yael Orbach, 28, who was giving out wedding invitations to her friends at the surprise party along with her fiance Ofir Gonen when the bomb went off. Gonen was seriously wounded.
"She was about to marry her beloved. She was full of life, a good soul, always ready to help," her mother, Helen Solomon-Ziebinsky, told Haaretz.
The other three killed -- Itzik Buzaglo, 40; Aryeh Nagar, 37; and Ronen Rubenov, 28 -- were also attending the party.
Relatives said Buzaglo had foiled a Palestinian attack while on reserve duty in the West Bank two months ago, and to celebrate the occasion, he and his army buddies decided to shave their heads for Friday night's surprise party.
Described by friends as a devoted family man, Buzaglo left behind two young children. His wife, Linda, was seriously wounded.
Nagar, whose name translates as "carpenter," had his own carpentry business. Hours before the attack, he ate a traditional Friday evening dinner with his family in the Tel Aviv suburb of Kfar Saba. "I wanted him to stay with us for the Sabbath," his father, Yaakov, told the Yediot Ahronot daily. "But his friends from the army urged me to let him go out."
Rubenov, a sergeant major in the army, was known as the "engine" of the reserve unit and organized the surprise party. His sister Orly told Yediot that Rubenov loved his fellow soldiers and was also like a father to her children. She said she talked to him about the threat of violence. "When I spoke to him about attacks, he said, 'Don't worry about me. Everything will be OK."'
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