Today’s blast outside Jerusalem’s central bus station shattered a long period of relative peace and security in Israel’s capital and largest city. Jerusalem had not been hit by a bomb for nearly seven years, since the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade killed two Israelis on September 22, 2004.
There have been a couple other terror attacks in Jerusalem since 2004 (a Palestinian terrorist killed eight students and wounded eleven while shooting up a religious school in 2008, and later that year when a terrorist commandeered a bulldozer, killing three and wounding fifty in Jerusalem). The most recent terrorist attack (before today’s) occurred outside of Jerusalem, with the barbaric slaughter of a Jewish family in the West Bank earlier this month. A terrorist invaded their home in the dead of night and stabbed to death Ruth and Udi Fogel and three of their children, 11-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad, and three-month-old Hadas.
