Rites Held for Bombing Victims as Israel Vows to Avenge Them
Israel vowed to avenge the bombing of its Buenos Aires embassy with a “war to the death” against those responsible as funeral services were held for the first of the Israeli victims.
The bodies of Foreign Ministry employees Zehava Zehavi and Eliora Carmon were flown to Israel on Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem’s private aircraft.
“Eliora, Zehava, the Lord will avenge your spilled blood,” Foreign Minister David Levy, his voice strained with emotion, said at an airport memorial ceremony for the two women.
“This is the vow. . . . To those consumed by hatred, we have but one path--waging war on them to the death.”
Among those accompanying the bodies back to Israel were Carmon’s husband, a consular official wounded in the attack, and their five children, and Zehavi’s husband and three children. An Argentinian psychologist escorted the families.
In the past 24 hours, rescue workers still combing through the rubble found the bodies of Deputy Chief of Mission David Ben-Raphael, 44, security officer Eli Ben-Zeev, 35, and three Argentinians employed by the embassy, the Foreign Ministry said.
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