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Rina Didovsky
Dec 8, 2000 - Rina Didovsky, 39, died when a car full of gunmen sprayed the van in which she was a passenger with bullets as it drove near Kiryat Arba.
Rina Didovsky, mother of six and a teacher at the Kiryat Arba school for almost two decades, was on her way to work on the morning of the attack.
The van's driver, Eliyahu Ben-Ami, 41, of Otniel, was mortally wounded. A second teacher in the van was lightly injured by shrapnel.
Didovsky dedicated her life to her young students, usually
in third and fourth grade. She had endless patience and dedication above
and beyond the requirements of her job. She saw teaching not as an
ordinary career, but as an ideal. One of her pupils related that Rina never
yelled at the children, was always very understanding, and always smiled.
If they hadn't finished their homework she would give them a chance to
complete it.
Didovsky's husband, Haim, runs a settler news agency called Hakol Mehashetakh ("Voice from the Field") and he was the first to inform journalists of the incident. Only later did he discover he had reported the death of his wife.
Friday afternoon, thousands lined the Jerusalem streets through which Rina Didovsky's funeral procession passed.
She was buried in Jerusalem's Har Hamenuhot cemetery.
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