A Healer of Terror Victims Becomes One

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/international/middleeast/11DOCT.html?hp

In this tormented city, responding to terror attacks has become a grim medical specialty, and Dr. David Applebaum was known as "the first man on the scene."

Dr. Applebaum spent years dashing to bomb sites to treat the wounded, and he was an innovator in emergency medical services that are called into action all too often here.

Dr. Applebaum, 50, was present at the bombing of a cafe on Tuesday night — this time as a victim. He was killed with his daughter Nava, 20, as they ventured several blocks from home for a late night snack and a father-daughter talk on the eve of her wedding.

Instead of giving his daughter away today at a large celebration set for a Jerusalem kibbutz, Dr. Applebaum was buried alongside Nava in an even larger funeral at the stony, hilltop cemetery of Givat Shaul on the western edge of the city.

Hundreds had planned to spend the evening dancing with the Applebaums. Instead, thousands mourned, many with red eyes and weak knees, as they recalled his good works. "He was a great combination of spirituality and humanity," said Aviva Cayam, who knew Dr. Applebaum since he was a 14-year-old growing up in Cleveland. "When people think of him, they use the Hebrew word `tzadik.' That's a very special person who has both a human and a godly touch."

The day of his death, Dr. Applebaum had returned from a New York conference dealing with terror attacks.

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nothing to say

[rini]

1. your right

there is nothing to say. Those who are fools will remain fools and blame Jews for the crimes of existing. Those who are not fools will continue to be frustrated. A tzadik died, one of many but unfortunately not the last.

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2. Unfortunately......

the 2 innocent people will fade from memory faster
than the murderer who committed this act.