Death of security guard takes disco suicide bombing
toll to 20
Two
more teen-aged immigrant girls laid to rest
Ha'aretz Staff
The death
toll from Friday night's suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv nightclub
rose to 20 late Sunday night after the club's security guard, Yan
Blum, died from his injuries.
Blum, 25, of Ramat Gan, came to
Israel some six months ago. He will be laid to rest today at the
Yarkon cemetery. He is survived by his wife and 2-year-old
son.
Funerals for two more of those killed in Friday night's
suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv nightclub were held yesterday.
Caterina Kastaniada, 15, of Ramat Gan, was laid to rest in the
Catholic cemetery in Jaffa and 16-year-old Liana Sakian from Tel
Aviv was buried at Kibbutz Givat Brener's cemetery.
Caterina
emigrated from Colombia eight years ago with her mother. During a
visit to the family home in Ramat Gan yesterday, Interior Minister
Eli Yishai awarded Caterina's mother Israeli citizenship. Yishai
said that it was his duty to do so.
Family members told
Yishai of the dilapidated condition of the Catholic cemetery in
Jaffa where Caterina was buried. He promised to alert the religious
affairs minister to the problem and ensure that adequate funds were
allocated for renovations.
Caterina's mother remarried an
Israeli, with whom she had a second child, who is now 3. Caterina
was a student at the Pitman school in Ramat Gan. Her family did not
know for at least seven hours after the blast whether she was dead
or alive; her name was not on hospitals' victims lists. They learned
yesterday morning she was dead and went to the Abu Kabir Institute
of Forensic Medicine to identify her body.
Dozens attended
Liana's funeral at Kibbutz Givat Brener. Agriculture Minister Shalom
Simhon, on behalf of the government, said that, "there are no words
of comfort for the loss of a girl who was killed by a cruel
terrorist. Today we received a reminder that veteran Israelis, new
immigrants and those born here are killed side by side. We are all
brothers, share the same fate and fight for our existence. Despite
this difficult period, we must not lose hope."
Labor MK Sofa
Landver also attended the funeral and eulogized Liana in
Russian.
Liana went to the nightclub with her twin brother,
Peter, and two girlfriends. Her brother left soon after they arrived
at the Dolphinarium because he did not have enough money with him.
Liana's two friends were also injured in the fatal blast.
The
headmistress of Liana's high school, Ironi Aleph, said that Liana,
who immigrated from Russia with her parents and brother two years
ago, was an incredibly gifted artist, a high-spirited girl who
quickly made friends with both immigrants and
Israeli-born.
Thirty-nine people are still hospitalized
following Friday's blast, two of whom remain on the critical list.
There has however been a slight improvement in the condition of a
16-year-old girl who received a serious blow to the head. Ichilov
Hospital says that she is now in a moderate condition.
Five
of the injured are classified as serious, eight as moderate, three
as moderate-to-light and another 20 as light.
 
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Mourners at the funeral of Colombian-born
Caterina Kastaniada, 15, in Jaffa yesterday.(Photo: Ariel Schalit)
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