Some 260,000 children in grades one through six – including 8-year-old Yaniv Amousha and other survivors of terror attacks – have attended Israeli day camps funded by the United Jewish Communities’ Israel Emergency Campaign.
A series of Palestinian terror attacks that killed 13 people in a 24-hour span did not differentiate among its victims: Among the dead were Jews, Arabs and foreign nationals.
At other times, the deaths of five Americans might have lasting political repercussions. But last week’s bombing at Hebrew University has not galvanized Congress or the White House — primarily because much of Washington is on vacation.