{"id":1425477,"date":"2022-04-08T10:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425477"},"modified":"2022-04-08T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:00:01","slug":"funeral-instead-of-a-wedding-for-terror-victim-in-israel-shot-dead-weeks-after-becoming-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/funeral-instead-of-a-wedding-for-terror-victim-in-israel-shot-dead-weeks-after-becoming-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Funeral Instead of a Wedding\u2019 for Terror Victim in Israel Shot Dead Weeks After Becoming Engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffuneral-instead-of-a-wedding-for-terror-victim-in-israel-shot-dead-weeks-after-becoming-engaged%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425477&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The victim of Thursday night\u2019s Palestinian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/04\/08\/palestinian-terrorist-who-killed-two-in-tel-aviv-shot-dead-after-massive-manhunt\/\">terror attack<\/a> in Tel Aviv Eitam Megini, 27, became engaged three weeks ago to his girlfriend, Ayala.<\/p>\n<p>Ayala\u2019s mother said the family had planned to celebrate the couple\u2019s engagement with a party on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn this house, where we are now mourning, there was supposed to be a party this evening,\u201d Lia Arad <a href=\"https:\/\/news.walla.co.il\/item\/3499556\">told<\/a> the Walla news site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all devastated. They had started making lists for the wedding and had set up times to see venues,\u201d she added. \u201cHe was all of our child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Arad, both her and daughter were trying desperately to reach Megini when they heard about the terror attack.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that if he hadn\u2019t called to tell her he was ok, something had happened. I went to Ichilov [hospital]. From their faces I understood. Instead of a wedding, there will be a funeral,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/mother-of-tel-aviv-victims-fiancee-instead-of-a-wedding-there-will-be-a-funeral\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20582885\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239830985.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Israelis react at the site of a shooting attack the previous night at Dizengoff Street in the centre of Israel\u2019s Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on April 8, 2022. (JACK GUEZ\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Megini\u2019s grandfather Hagai wept as he spoke about his grandson: \u201cEitam was a child like no other. He was always at the center of everything, he caused anyone looking at him to fall in love with him immediately. He was incredibly talented. In the army, he served in the submarines. He studied computers and neuroscience. Just about a month ago, on the Purim holiday, Eitam became engaged to his partner Ayala. I tried to reach him yesterday, and he did not answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eitam and his childhood friend Tomer Morad, 28, were killed when\u00a028-year-old Palestinian terrorist, Raad Hazem from the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, launched a shooting spree in downtown Tel Aviv. Hazem, who was in Israel illegally, had no criminal record and no known affiliations with terror organizations.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fourth terror attack in two weeks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Thursday night is the busiest night of the week for recreational activities in Israel, since the five day work week ends that day. Dizengoff Street, one of Tel Aviv\u2019s main thoroughfares, is lined with bars and restaurants that are packed on a Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20582903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239828406.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20582903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239828406-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Israelis remember victims of the Palestinian terror attack at Dizengoff Street in the centre of Israel\u2019s Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on April 8, 2022. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The gunman first opened fire outside Ilka, a bar with outside seating. The gunman then left the scene and continued shooting through a side street, narrowly missing another man who had left the bar after the attack began.<\/p>\n<p>Ten people were rushed to Ichilov hospital with gunshot wounds. Four were in critical condition and four more were described as being in good to moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p>One of the wounded who was hospitalized in \u201cgood to moderate condition\u201d was Ra\u2019anan Shimon, 32, who was drinking a beer at the bar when he was shot in the face. Medics described his situation as \u201ca miracle\u201d because the bullet entered his right cheek and exited the left one.<\/p>\n<p>A nine-hour manhunt ensued with 1,000 police officers and security personnel deployed to the area. The manhunt ended when the terrorist was killed in a shootout by a mosque in Jaffa, a mixed Arab-Jewish city that is adjacent to Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of both cities, which share a municipality, were told to stay indoors as the terrorist was on the loose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The victim of Thursday night\u2019s Palestinian\u00a0terror attack in Tel Aviv Eitam Megini, 27, became engaged three weeks ago to his girlfriend, Ayala. 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