1995 Terror Victim Dies
In 1995, Yona Malina - the son of survivors who fled from the Nazis - had barely been living in Israel for a year. The young Czechoslovakian immigrant was barely 28 years of age when while rediscovering his Jewish roots, he suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down, as a result of severe spinal injuries sustained from the explosion of a suicide bomber on the bus he was riding to the Hebrew University campus on Mt. Scopus. Maimed, scarred, and unable to breathe on his own, but living and suffering for ten years with his condition, Yona Malina has died at the ripe old age of 38, another victim of Arab Terror.
Not to be political, but his story of paralysis and respirator questions, are reminiscent of a few recent hot button topics in American media and politics.
