This Day in History: The Zion Square Bombing

On the 25th of Tammuz, 5735, a Palestinian terrorist brought a bomb-laden refrigerator to Zion Square. Some citizens at the scene suspected it might be an explosive device, but when they opened the refrigerator, they found it empty, as the bomb was attached to the refrigerator's walls and not placed inside it.

A woman who called the police struggled to get through, and the bomb detonated before the police arrived at the scene. In the attack, 15 people were killed, and around 70 were injured.

One of the injured was Hanan Avital—who, after a recovery that took about a year, founded the "The Jerusalem Boys Choir."

Exactly 22 years later, on the 25th of Tammuz, 5757, another 15 people were killed in a double suicide bombing at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.