Eighth Immanuel victim was too young to have a name By Ruth Sinai Ha'aretz - July 18, 2002 Yehudit Weinberg did not know that the baby she had been carrying for eight months was a boy. She also did not manage to see him when he was born. Weinberg was seriously wounded by the seven bullets that sliced into her as she was traveling home to Immanuel by bus on Tuesday. One of them hit her in the groin and, as a result, she lost a great deal of blood. When she arrived at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, she was barely conscious but managed to whisper, "I have a baby in my belly. Please take care of it." "We rushed her into the operating theater in the hope of saving her and the baby," said Dr Michael Stein, head of the trauma unit. The baby was born by Caesarean section but was not breathing. "We resuscitated him and managed to get his heart beating but couldn't do much more than that," Stein said. Twelve hours later, the preemie died - Israel's youngest terror victim. He had not yet been named. Nevertheless, the National Insurance Institute will compensate the family. "She kept asking what had happened to the baby," Weinberg's mother, Ahuva Kopelowitz, said yesterday. "I kept hoping she would stop but she didn't. We indicated that he was in critical condition and then, at a certain point, she simply asked if he had died, and we told her." Weinberg looked down and did not say a word. Weinberg, 22, is the eldest of nine children. She was on her way home from Bnei Brak, where she is studying to be a teacher, and had left her one-year-old, Shalom Noah, at her parents' house in Immanuel. The bus was almost an hour late and she called her husband, Zvi, who was in Jerusalem at the time, to tell him she would be late. Immediately after the terror attack, she managed to reach her sister at her mother's house and to say: "I have been hit in a terror attack. Call an ambulance." But when the family members tried to call her back, there was no reply. The sister immediately called her parents who were on their way to a celebration in Jerusalem. "We did a U-turn and started driving back to Immanuel," Kopelowitz said. As they approached the junction where the attack took place, they saw a fleet of ambulances and heard on the radio communications that a pregnant woman was on her way to Beilinson. "We realized immediately that it was Yehudit. We got to the hospital just after her ambulance," Kopelowitz said. Yesterday Weinberg was making good progress and the color had returned to her face. She said she had heard the shots and realized she had been hit and was losing a lot of blood. She said it took more than 30 minutes before she was evacuated and that she recited psalms all the time and that this gave her strength. Her husband and mother said that her deep religious beliefs were helping her accept the loss of the baby. "All the blood that is spilled is the result of God's will. We know how to accept this with love. That is how she feels too," her mother said. Zvi Weinberg nods in agreement and thanks God that his wife was saved and that she does not have irreversible damage to her vital organs. Kopelowitz yesterday faced the reporters and photographers outside the intensive care unit, a prayer book in her hand. In a quiet voice, she said: "Today is the eve of Tisha B'Av [the day on which the Temple was destroyed]. The victims of the attack are being buried today, righteous people some of whom I knew. When righteous people are killed, it is like the burning of the Temple. Look what they are doing to our babies, pure souls who have not yet been born. But we shall not leave from here; we have no other land. Let them go."