Nava Applebaum

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Nava Applebaum (c. 1983 - September 9, 2003) was a twenty year-old girl who was murdered on the evening before her wedding by a Palestinian suicide bomber.

Applebaum met her fiancée, Chanan Sand, when they both served as youth group advisors. Sand collapsed in the emergency room of Sha'arei Tzedek Medical Center upon hearing that his fiancée had not survived.[1] He attended the funeral and placed the wedding ring on his dead bride's finger just before she was lowered into the grave.[2]

Applebaum was murdered together with her father, David Applebaum. The family had been writing the place cards for the wedding that was to take place the following day, and the father and daughter had gone together to the nearby Café Hillel to purchase drinks and snacks to bring home when the suicide bomber struck.[3]

Applebaum's unworn wedding gown was made into a covering for the ark of the Torah at Rachel's Tomb and the skirt of the gown was made into a wedding canopy that other bridal couples will stand under.[4]

At the time of her death, Applebaum had just been accepted into a doctoral program through which she hoped to do cancer research.[4]

Dr. Paige Applebaum Farkas, a Teaneck, New Jersey resident and second cousin to David Applebaum, and her brother, Dr. Eric Applebaum, also of Teaneck raised money to build a special room for brides at the mikvah in the Har Homa neighborhood of Jerusalem.[4][5]

A memorial service honoring Nava and her father held in New Jersey one year after their deaths drew over a thousand people.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Nava Appelbaum, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Accessed March 30, 2008.
  2. ^ Kordova, Shoshana. "Almost too tragic to be true", Haaretz. Accessed March 30, 2008.
  3. ^ HaLevy, Yossi Klein. "The historic significance of American Aliya", The Jerusalem Post, September 26, 2003. Accessed March 30, 2008.
  4. ^ a b c d Goldrich, Lois. "A blessing for new brides", Jewish Standard, December 23, 2005. Accessed March 30, 2008.
  5. ^ Kabalat Kalla Room dedicated in Victim's Memory, ONE Family Fund. Accessed June 1, 2008.