ICEJ l March 9, 2012

Publication: ICEJ (Internation Christian Embassy Jerusalem
Type: Online
Date: March 9, 2012
Country: Israel
Title: Ortiz family gets scare on anniversary of Purim bombing
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Ortiz family gets scare on anniversary of Purim bombing

On the fourth anniversary of the Purim basket bomb attack that almost killed their teenage son Ami, the Ortiz family in Ariel received a scare on Thursday when another package was deposited on their doorstep by a man who rang the doorbell and then ran away. The four adults and two children who were in the apartment at the time called the police, who dispatched over 20 officers, two fire trucks and the bomb squad to their aid. The street was closed off, the building evacuated and the family extracted from the apartment through the window by the lift on one of the fire trucks. The bomb squad including a robot went back into the apartment by the same method and sent the robot to examine it. The package turned out to be filled with harmless food products. “A representative from the religious community showed up and said that they were doing a project through the Orthodox elementary school in town to give food packages to needy families and it was delivered to us by mistake,” said Pastor David Ortiz. “But the media and the security services said they didn't buy that story so quickly and they're trying to find out if it was a bad joke to scare us or if it was truly a mistake.”

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