A woman has died after spending 22 years in a coma after a suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem.
Chana Nachenberg, 52, was injured in the Sbarro bombing in downtown Jerusalem in 2001 and spent the last two decades unconscious in a Tel Aviv hospital.
New York-born Nachenberg had been in a vegetative state for 22 years since the attack, which took the lives of 15 civilians, including seven children, and wounded some 130 others. Nachenberg’s passing brings the death toll to 16.
The Sbarro pizzeria was located at one of the busiest intersections in downtown Jerusalem, on the corner of King George and Jaffa streets. On Aug. 9, 2001, the day of the bombing, Nachenberg was there with relatives from Riverdale, New York, and her two-year-old daughter, who was also injured in the blast.
