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...know you're getting close to Mahaneh Yehuda when you notice the strong scent of cardamom and see the ultra-Orthodox Israeli men, in their black Homburg hats and long beards, scurrying home with their bags of vegetables. Then you spy the green-bereted Border Police, eyeing the noisy flow of customers from behind a barrier. And the once cheery mural now defaced with graffiti reading DEATH TO ARABS...
...turns to indicate where another bomber detonated his charge moments later, in front of the display of pickles and olives. That attack killed 15 people; the bomber's ravaged torso landed on Boneh. Though there were bigger attacks elsewhere in Jerusalem, the two bombings in the crowded alleys of Mahaneh Yehuda during the intifadeh added to its status as a byword for the horrible inevitability of terrorism, and many Israelis simply stopped coming. Boneh almost gave up after his sister Rose and 10 others were killed in January when a bomber struck on a bus near the center of town...
...date, the fedayeen's most damaging operation was a bomb in Jerusalem's Mahaneh Yehuda marketplace last month. It killed twelve civilians and wounded 53. Embarrassingly for the guerrillas, two rival groups claimed credit, but the Fatah man, a burly, mustachioed Arab dressed in dungarees and a dirty white sweater, told the more convincing story, and the fedayeen council granted the glory to El Fatah. Arriving back at Arafat's headquarters in suburban Amman, he related that he wore a stolen Israeli policeman's uniform, drove a small, British-built delivery van to .the market...
...Friday morning, the busiest place in Jerusalem is the Mahaneh Yehuda (Camp of Judah) market. Last week, a crowd of 3,000 filled its narrow lanes and open stalls as housewives shopped for the Sabbath. No one noticed a small blue delivery van parked on Agrippas Street, nor could they know that it carried 450 lbs. of explosives and a timing device. At precisely 9:28 a.m., the van blew...
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