As we have seen the face of the perpetrator who actually built the bomb and brought it to our house, which was intentionally planned to murder David but which so critically wounded Ami, it has been emotionally difficult for all of us. We find ourselves often exhausted physically and emotionally as interview after interview are done, and as detail after detail of how the crime was conceived and carried out come to light. We found out through a newspaper article in Hebrew for instance that Teitel had opened an email account under a false name and used an internet café in Jerusalem to send out emails. We had actually received an email from Teitel’s assumed name 3 months before the attack! He had written claiming that he and his girlfriend wanted to come to a service and he requested details how to get to a service. The way it was written aroused suspicion in David and myself, and we suspected Yad L’achim (anti freedom or religion organization) or someone similar and we never answered him. I saved the email, and a month after the attack gave it to the police as they asked if I had received any suspicious emails or telephone calls.

Two months before he was arrested, Teitel was tracked by the police to the internet café and ten minutes after he left, they raided the place, and possessed the computer and the security camera pictures. When we read this, and realized that email was from Teitel himself, it really shook us up, but we were amazed at how the Lord had given us the warning in our spirits and the wisdom to not answer.