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5-year-old Fire-bombing Victim Dies, Buried Next to Mother’s Grave

July 7, 1987
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Five year-old Tal Moses died Sunday at Tel Hashomer Sheba Hospital and was buried in Petach Tikva Monday. He was the victim of burns suffered when the family car was fire-bombed on a West Bank road April 11, killing his mother, Ofra Moses, 35.

The child was buried next to his mother’s grave. Hundreds attended the funeral, including Minister-Without-Portfolio Yitzhak Modai, who demanded the death penalty for terrorists responsible for such tragedies.

The Tal family lives in the West Bank settlement of Alfe Menashe. Their car was attacked on a Saturday night while driving to Petach Tikva. The perpetrators have not been caught Tal’s father, Avraham Moses, 37, his two other children, Adi, 8, and Nir, 13, and a friend, Yosef Ballo, 14, who was travelling with them, all were burned.

The incident triggered an attack by Jewish settlers on the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya the following day.

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