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$58 Million Sought in 2 Slayings at LAX

Tom Tugend January 9, 2003

The city of Los Angeles has been hit with claims of more than $58 million, stemming from the deadly shooting rampage last July 4 at Los Angeles International Airport\’s El Al check-in counter.\n\nKilled in the attack were two Israeli Americans, Yaacov (Jacob) Aminov, a 46-year-old owner of a jewelry distribution company, and Victoria (Vicky) Hen, 25, who had worked as an El Al ticket agent for less than two months.\n\nThey died in a hail of bullets fired by Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, an Egyptian immigrant, who opened fire on passengers waiting in line. He was killed within seconds by an El Al security guard.\n\nClaims by the Aminov family and companions total more than $38 million, while the parents of Hen are asking for $20 million.

A Hero

Rob Eshman February 28, 2002

As The Journal went to press last week, word came that terrorist kidnappers in Pakistan had brutally murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

A ‘Barbaric’ Act

Matthew E. Berger February 28, 2002

Was Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl killed because he was Jewish?.

Special Night of Music

Dr. Rosemary Cohen March 22, 2001

At the end of August 1992, a young man, who had gone out to a bar because he was \”bored,\” struck our car. The drunken driver injured my family and killed Liana, my 18-year-old daughter, as we were returning home from Friday night services. Liana was going to fly out the next day to attend college at Brandeis University.

Tragedy or Exploitation?

Helen Schary Motro March 1, 2001

The photograph of the Palestinian father cradling his terrified son moments before the boy was killed in Gaza this fall was viewed live on television and reproduced on the front pages of newspapers around the globe. Like the photograph of the boy with hands raised standing in the Warsaw Ghetto, nobody who saw desperate Jamal Al-Durrah vainly trying to shield 12-year-old Mohammed can ever forget the terror in their eyes.