The names were released of most of the 17 Israelis killed in Wednesday’s suicide bombing in Jerusalem. They were Yaniv Abayad, 22, of Herzliya; Sgt. Tamar Ben Eliahu, 20, of Moshav Paran; Ogenya Berman, 50, of Jerusalem; Alan Beer, 47 of Jerusalem; Elza Cohen, 70, of Jerusalem; Zvi Cohen, 39 of Jerusalem; Roi Eliraz, 22, of Mevasseret Zion; Alexander Kazaris, 77, of Jerusalem; Tita Martin, 75, of Jerusalem; Yaffa Mualem, 65, of Jerusalem; Bet-El Ohana, 21, of Kiryat Ata; Tzipporah Pesachovitch, 54, of Tsur Hadassah; and Rene Malka Sultan, 67, of Jerusalem.
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