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Afula axe attack

After the attack Gabai was rushed in critical condition to the HaEmek Medical Center in Afula.

On Wednesday, 30 November 1994, the Palestinian assailant entered the Israeli town of Afula.

The Afula axe attack was a Palestinian militant attack which occurred on November 30, 1994 in northern town of Afula when a lone Palestinian assailant attacked a 19-year-old female Israeli soldier who was on her way home from the artillery base in which served in the downtown area of the town, near the town's police station.

Avishai Margalit

Avishai Margalit (hebr. ‏אבישי מרגלית, b. 1939 in Afula, British Mandate for Palestine, today Israel), is an Israeli George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ekene Ibekwe

He then joined Hapoel Gilboa/Afula, where he played with his Nigerian national teammate, Tunji Awojobi.

HaEmek Medical Center

HaEmek Medical Center (Hebrew: מרכז רפואי העמק, Merkaz refu'i ha-Emek) is a hospital in the northern Israeli town of Afula.

Sarit Hadad

Hadad was born as Sarah Khudadatov ((Hebrew: שרה חודדטוב, Hebrew pronunciation:)) in the town of Afula, Israel in a large traditional half Mountain Jewish and half Tunisian Jewish family that later moved to the city of Hadera.


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