A family under the shadow of terror
By Margot Dudkevitch

JERUSALEM (March 27) - The Pass and Zarbiv families of Hebron are no strangers to terror. Yesterday's murder of 10-month-old Shalhevet Tehiya Pass and the wounding of her father Yitzhak were in addition to three other terror attacks involving family members over the past eight years. Until yesterday's attack none were fatal.

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In November 1993, two axe-wielding Palestinians attacked Yitzhak's father-in-law, Avraham Zarbiv, as he was on his way to morning prayers near the Machpela Cave, causing serious skull, face, and hand wounds. After undergoing intensive surgery, he recovered.

In January 1996, one of Zarbiv's daughters, Orital, then 14, was stabbed in the back by a Palestinian near the Hebron market.

On March 10, Yitzhak Pass's brother Elad, 19, who was spending Shabbat with his brother in Hebron, was shot in the leg near Kikar Gross.

Yitzhak studies in the Menuha Rahel kollel, and married Uriya, 20, two years ago. They live in Beit Kastel near Beit Hadassah, and Shalhevet was their first child.

Yesterday, shocked by Shalhevet's death, residents recalled that a day earlier she had danced in her father's arms as the community celebrated the marriage of one of Hebron Jewish community spokesman Noam Arnon's children.

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