Tel Aviv – Alon Bekeland and Shimon Ruimi have been identified as the two men shot and killed at a popular bar in the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon.
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Alon Bekel, a shift manager at the pub which took the brunt of the gunfire on Dizengoff Street.
“We are losing our good kids,” Bakal’s father says from Ichilov Hospital.
He “studied law and business management, he was a thriving and happy child. He lit up every place he went, he made everyone laugh,” his father says. “Have no doubt, he was a very special child. He was very special to us. Yesterday he sent me a message: ‘I am having fun, I love to live.’”
Shimon Ruimi has been identified as the second fatality in the shooting rampage.
Ruimi, a native of the southern Israel town of Ofaqim, was in Tel Aviv patronizing a bar with friends when he was gunned down by an unidentified assailant armed with a semiautomatic rifle.
Seven others were wounded, four of them seriously in the shooting.
Channel 10 and other Israeli media later Friday claimed the attacker’s identity was known to authorities. The station’s defense analyst Alon Ben-David said the gunman was an Israeli Arab and that the attacker’s father had seen his son on TV and notified authorities.
Nebuch, Nebuch such a fine young Jewish man to be lost by another Arab. BD’E
Oy,Hashem, Ad Mosai!
Hopeless losers with no desire to live killing people with exactly the opposite traits.