The 18-year-old soldier who was raped and shot and left for dead in the Negev two weeks ago is said to be improving under the physical and psychological therapy she is receiving at the Beth Levenstein Center. The woman, whose identity is being withheld, remains partially paralyzed from the attack.
The soldier was attacked on August 16 when a man gave her a lift in his car while she was hitchhiking from her army base near Beersheba to her home in the Negev. Police are conducting a nationwide search for the assailant. In an effort to get a positive identification, the police have issued a portrait compiled by using an American identikit system received a few days ago from the U.S.
The system, said to be the most efficient now in use, combines many facial features on separate transparent plastic sheets which can be superimposed on each other to provide a total composite face. Earlier identifications, including that given by the soldier, described the assailant as between 28 and 30 years of age, of average height, fair-skinned and husky, with light brown hair, with somewhat protruding lower teeth. He spoke fluent Hebrew.
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