Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 28, a mother of a 16 month old baby, was murdered along with Ziv Hajbi, 35, in a shooting attack at the Barkan Industrial Park on Sunday, October 7, 2018. The two were found tied up and mortally wounded in the office where they worked. Police believe they were shot at close range after being tied up. Efforts to revive them were unsuccessful.
Kim, a resident of Rosh Ayin, leaves behind her parents, Rafael and Chava, husband Guy, and baby. May her memory be a blessing.
On the day of her murder, Kim had woken at her usual time and taken her son to his day care center across the street. She then headed to work, where she encountered the terrorist, who had pre-planned his attack and left a suicide note on the expectation that he would be killed during his attack.
Kim worked at the Alon Group recycling factory as a receptionist for the deputy CEO. The company was based in the industrial park, a zone known as an oasis of coexistence between Jews and Arabs. There are 8,000 workers in the industrial zone, half of whom are Jews and half are Arab.
The terrorist also worked at the Alon Group as an electrician and used his work permit to enter the region and sneak in an automatic weapon. He had not arrived to work in the weeks before the attack and may have been acquainted with both of his victims.
At her funeral, her husband and father promised to raise her son just as she would have wanted. Her father had heard that an attack had taken place in the industrial zone where she worked. When his attempts to call her failed, he rushed to the area and discovered that his daughter had been murdered.
“I want to tell you that I am sorry that I was not at your side. I have been at your side for your entire life,” he said. “I did not arrive in time. When I did arrive, I saw what they had done to you. I promise you, I promise you that Guy and Kai will get everything they need and even more than that. I promise that I will take care of them. You can rest in peace.”
Another family member spoke of her constantly doting over her baby. “In the past few days, her son started to walk, and she was so excited about it,” she said. “There was nobody happier than her. She was constantly filming him and sending the videos to everyone. Now she is no more. It is impossible to believe it and I can’t grasp that she was murdered.”