Hanadi Jaradat
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Hanadi Tayseer Abdul Malek Jaradat (Arabic: هنادي تيسير عبدالمالك جردات) (September 22, 1975 – October 4, 2003), a Palestinian suicide bomber from Jenin, blew herself up on Saturday, October 4, 2003 in an attack on Maxim's restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Twenty-one people of various nationalities were killed and 51 were injured. She was one of the Al-Aqsa Intifada's first female suicide bombers.
Jaradat was a lawyer and a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Islamist organization. According to a story in Ha'aretz, based on Arab media and interviews with Israeli and Arab sources, she agreed to the bombing after IDF undercover operatives killed her cousin (Salah, 34), who was wanted by Israel, and her younger brother (Fadi, 25), who was not, in their home, before her eyes, the evening before her brother's wedding. Earlier, when she was 21, her fiance had been killed by Israeli security forces.
A photo of Jaradat was the central element in the artwork Snow White and The Madness of Truth.
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Ticking bomb by Vered Levy-Barzilai Ha'aretz article trying to explain why Hanadi Jaradat became a suicide bomber.
