Twenty-two-year-old Yehudit Weinberg was 8 months pregnant when the bus she was travelling on from B'nei B'rak to Emmanuel was ambushed and attacked by terrorists. At the hospital, her baby son, her second-born child, was delivered by C-section. Yehudit herself had been shot seven times and was barely conscious, but she miraculously survived. She believed her pregnancy may have saved her life, since she was attended to first by the paramedics when she screamed that she was pregnant. She had also changed her seat during the beginning of the bus ride, and the woman who then sat down in her first seat was killed. The doctors managed to resusciate the baby and get his heart to start beating, but he died only 12 hours later, unnamed. The baby had not been injured in the attack, amazingly, in spite of how seriously his mother had been wounded, but she had lost so much blood that he wasn't able to get enough oxygen to his brain. The doctors had described him as a perfect baby otherwise (he weighed 4.4 pounds and almost 11.6 ounces), who would have had a good chance at making it. He was buried in the plot for premature babies at Segula Cemetery. In addition to his mother Yehudit, he is survived by his father Zvi and his older brother Shalom Noach. This infant is believed to be the youngest victim of the Second Intifada.
Twenty-two-year-old Yehudit Weinberg was 8 months pregnant when the bus she was travelling on from B'nei B'rak to Emmanuel was ambushed and attacked by terrorists. At the hospital, her baby son, her second-born child, was delivered by C-section. Yehudit herself had been shot seven times and was barely conscious, but she miraculously survived. She believed her pregnancy may have saved her life, since she was attended to first by the paramedics when she screamed that she was pregnant. She had also changed her seat during the beginning of the bus ride, and the woman who then sat down in her first seat was killed. The doctors managed to resusciate the baby and get his heart to start beating, but he died only 12 hours later, unnamed. The baby had not been injured in the attack, amazingly, in spite of how seriously his mother had been wounded, but she had lost so much blood that he wasn't able to get enough oxygen to his brain. The doctors had described him as a perfect baby otherwise (he weighed 4.4 pounds and almost 11.6 ounces), who would have had a good chance at making it. He was buried in the plot for premature babies at Segula Cemetery. In addition to his mother Yehudit, he is survived by his father Zvi and his older brother Shalom Noach. This infant is believed to be the youngest victim of the Second Intifada.
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