The Empty Desk

(Boston Globe) Helen Schary Motro - Third graders in Haifa's Reali School are used to the one empty desk in their Israeli classroom. Tomer Almog was killed with his grandparents, father, and 17 others in Maxim's restaurant in Haifa on Oct. 4 by a Palestinian woman suicide bomber. The explosion seriously burned Tomer's 4-year-old sister and blinded the right eye of his 10-year-old brother Oren. Specialists in the U.S. are trying to save Oren's other injured eye.


2004-01-23 00:00:00

Full Article

BACK

Visit the Daily Alert Archive