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Hi all!
This is off today's AP wire. Stuff like this gives me the shakes. That Mr. Wieselman happened to walk out of the hotel dining hall a second before the suicide-bomber blew himself up cannot be a coincidence. There are no such things as coincidences in God's world. It is as if God had determined that Mr. Wieselman's time was up on March 27 but that there was something that he needed to do before He actually called him to Him, which He did on Sunday.
I find stories like this very humbling. It makes us realize how little control we have over our lives & how everything truly is in God's hands. In one of our most solemn Rosh Hashanah (New Year's) and Yom Kippur prayers, we acknowledge God as the One who determines, "Who shall live and who shall die..."
May Mr. Wieselman's memory be for a blessing!
Be well!
ssv
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Chef who survived Israel's worst suicide
bombing dies in attack two months later
Mon May 20,12:34 PM ET
By CELEAN JACOBSON, Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM - After Arkady Wieselman narrowly escaped Israel's deadliest suicide
bombing by walking out of a hotel hall dining room moments before a blast killed 29 people,
he phoned his family to say his survival was a miracle.
After Sunday's blast in the vegetable market in Wieselman's home city of
Netanya, his family's phone was silent.
Nearly two months after surviving a massive suicide blast, Wieselman,
along with two other Israelis, was killed in the city's market by a suicide
bomber dressed like a soldier.
Moments before his death, Wieselman had phoned his wife, Victoria, to say he was on his
way home. When she tried to phone him back after she heard about the bombing, there was no
answer.
'Arkady always said: 'We were so lucky. God loved us.' So here now God took him,"
Wieselman's colleague Pinchas Zevulonova told the local daily Yediot Ahronot.
Wieselman was a chef at the Park Hotel and had helped prepare a meal marking the Jewish
festival of Passover on March 27, when a suicide bomber wearing 40 pounds (18 kilograms)
of explosives walked into the packed dining hall.
Just before the bomber blew himself up, Wieselman had left the dining room to get something
from the kitchen's freezer.
After the blast, Wieselman phoned his family and told them: "I was saved by a miracle" the
local daily Yediot Ahronot reported.
"On the eve of Passover we were saved by a miracle," Zevulonova said. "Since then we have
not stopped talking about this miracle and the security situation."
Hotel manager Rina Hamamy said she arrived at the scene five minutes after the dining room
explosion to find Wieselman tending to the injured.
"He helped save the people. I thought it was impossible that something like this would happen
again to the people at the hotel," she said.
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This is off today's AP wire. Stuff like this gives me the shakes. That Mr. Wieselman happened to walk out of the hotel dining hall a second before the suicide-bomber blew himself up cannot be a coincidence. There are no such things as coincidences in God's world. It is as if God had determined that Mr. Wieselman's time was up on March 27 but that there was something that he needed to do before He actually called him to Him, which He did on Sunday.
I find stories like this very humbling. It makes us realize how little control we have over our lives & how everything truly is in God's hands. In one of our most solemn Rosh Hashanah (New Year's) and Yom Kippur prayers, we acknowledge God as the One who determines, "Who shall live and who shall die..."
May Mr. Wieselman's memory be for a blessing!
Be well!
ssv
__________
Chef who survived Israel's worst suicide
bombing dies in attack two months later
Mon May 20,12:34 PM ET
By CELEAN JACOBSON, Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM - After Arkady Wieselman narrowly escaped Israel's deadliest suicide
bombing by walking out of a hotel hall dining room moments before a blast killed 29 people,
he phoned his family to say his survival was a miracle.
After Sunday's blast in the vegetable market in Wieselman's home city of
Netanya, his family's phone was silent.
Nearly two months after surviving a massive suicide blast, Wieselman,
along with two other Israelis, was killed in the city's market by a suicide
bomber dressed like a soldier.
Moments before his death, Wieselman had phoned his wife, Victoria, to say he was on his
way home. When she tried to phone him back after she heard about the bombing, there was no
answer.
'Arkady always said: 'We were so lucky. God loved us.' So here now God took him,"
Wieselman's colleague Pinchas Zevulonova told the local daily Yediot Ahronot.
Wieselman was a chef at the Park Hotel and had helped prepare a meal marking the Jewish
festival of Passover on March 27, when a suicide bomber wearing 40 pounds (18 kilograms)
of explosives walked into the packed dining hall.
Just before the bomber blew himself up, Wieselman had left the dining room to get something
from the kitchen's freezer.
After the blast, Wieselman phoned his family and told them: "I was saved by a miracle" the
local daily Yediot Ahronot reported.
"On the eve of Passover we were saved by a miracle," Zevulonova said. "Since then we have
not stopped talking about this miracle and the security situation."
Hotel manager Rina Hamamy said she arrived at the scene five minutes after the dining room
explosion to find Wieselman tending to the injured.
"He helped save the people. I thought it was impossible that something like this would happen
again to the people at the hotel," she said.
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