Triumph over terror
Published in The Australian Jewish News
February 27, 2019
On February 25, 1996 Dana Pinhasov’s world changed forever.
It was a Sunday morning when the then 21-year-old began to make her way back to base after the weekend. She was a medic with the border police – born and raised in Jerusalem – and each morning her mother would drive her from their loving family home in Katamon to the Central Bus Station.
But she did not make it to work. On that morning, Dana’s mother was unable to drive her to the Central Bus Station.
So, on that morning, Dana caught the number 18 bus at 6.15am.
When she began her journey, she sat behind the driver. Then, close to Jaffa Gate, the bus stopped and a suicide bomber boarded.
He detonated his bomb on Jaffa Road, just before arrival at the Central Bus Station.