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THE ISRAELI BRIDE WHO TURNED HER MOURNING INTO DANCING... AND INVITED THE WORLD
Sarah Litman and Ariel Biegel, a Jewish Israeli couple, have become husband and wife just two weeks
after Sarah’s father and brother were murdered by Palestinian terrorists. Their story is a testimony of how love overcomes terror.
On Friday 13 November, Sarah Litman was a bride-to-be preparing for her last shabbat as a single woman.
It was to provide Sarah with time to prepare for her Shabbat Kallah – the Sabbath celebration before a wedding – that the rest of the family headed out, by car, to visit the home of their in-laws-to-be. As they travelled a terrorist opened fire on their vehicle.
Natenal, Sarah’s 18-year-old brother was driving the car and as shots were fired at
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them, he swerved and crashed into some rocks. It was as he called for an ambulance that he was then shot dead along with their father, Ya’akov.
The other passengers in the car, Sarah’s mother and younger siblings sustained light injuries in the attack.
Despite the tragedy that struck the family and the grief they were going through, they were determined that the terrorists would not have victory over them. The wedding was postponed by just nine days, to allow for mourning, and now the whole of Israel was invited.
The public wedding invitation, which the couple posted on social media, began with the biblical quote: “Do not rejoice over
me, my enemy, for I have fallen but I have gotten up”. (Micah 7:8)
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