Dear Louis,

From time to time, we have updated you on Kinneret Chaya, the beautiful young ballerina who was a victim of a terrorist bombing.

When I visited last with Kinneret Chaya, she told me that on the 30th of March 2002 she was reborn out of the flames. Later, she took her father aside and told him, "Daddy, it's not true. Kinneret disappeared in the flames and Kinneret Chaya (Kinneret Lives) was born."

Now, Kinneret is marrying her sweetheart, the man who has stayed by her side throughout this unspeakable horror that she has endured.

(We have enclosed a copy of Kinneret’s beautiful wedding invitation in Hebrew.)

Carolyn and I are going to send a generous gift to help this young couple cope with the ongoing medical costs for Kinneret’s care. Please join us by sending a generous gift today.

Read Kinneret’s story below.

Kinneret Boosani, youngest of 3 daughters to Moshe and Yaffa, was 23 years old, a professional dancer and a student of alternative medicine. Exceptionally beautiful, heads would turn wherever she went. To earn extra money she worked as a barmaid/waitress in a small coffee shop on Tel Aviv's Allenby Street.

One evening a young man walked in to "My Coffee Shop," and she walked toward him asking if he would like a cup of coffee. As she neared him, he exploded the belt wrapped around his body killing himself and creating havoc and gore around him. When the ambulances arrived, the coffee shop was devastated, but few people were injured since it was early and not yet full. Itsik Kohav, the paramedic who came with the ambulance, was searching the area when he saw a leg sticking out from underneath the upturned bar, flames all around from the alcohol which had ignited from the bomb. Instinctively, using all his strength, he lifted the bar to find a young woman underneath. She seemed unaware of her injuries, but Itsik knew she had little chance of survival. She did not complain on the short ride to Ichilov Hospital Emergency Room. In the ER concerned doctors gave Kinneret a 2% chance of surviving the night. Kinneret's sister Anat was the one who realised something was amiss when Kinneret did not answer her cellphone after the inevitable call to see if she was alright. It was Anat who found Kinneret in the hospital and alerted her family. Itsik Kochav did not leave her side, as the family gathered. A Rabbi visited Kinneret that night and told the family to add another name to Kinneret and so Kinneret became Kinneret Chaya – “Kinneret Lives.”

It was 88 days before Kinneret Chaya breathed alone, longer till she ate, bathed, stood, walked or dressed alone. Her family never left her side for a whole year of terrible doubt as to her survival. They lost their jobs and at times their sanity. Each and every person injured in a terror attack has at least ten people within their direct personal ripple effect. An attack injures families and communities; the physical is only a part of the whole.

Kinneret Chaya still only has one fully operating lung, sees in only one eye and hears in only one ear, and her body bears the terrible scars of burns over 85% of her skin, and she spends time in a heavy pressure suit and face mask to prevent the scarring getting even worse. She cannot go out in the day because the sun has become her enemy. However, Kinneret Chaya no longer hates herself when she looks in the mirror and all she wants is to enter a room and the same people who once went "wow" at her beauty will not say "oy" at her scars. She is a fantastic young woman who tries to help those she feels are worse off than she. She studies Kabala, still holds left wing views and travels over the world to speak to groups about her survival. She has many years of agonizing surgery ahead of her but she is an articulate and wonderful young woman.

Please, God, may her scars all lessen and her outer beauty reflect her inner beauty. To see her today is to understand that even a terrorists' hatred cannot take away the beauty of her smile.

As I knelt before this wonderful girl, I told her two things: one that she could take her experience and learn from it. In life such tragedies teach us to be either bitter or better, always choose better and turn your scars into stars. I also told her that she has an angel on her shoulder. God was watching over her that night and had big plans for her future. Never ever call Kinneret Chaya a victim, she is a survivor.

In Kinneret Chayas words, "Kinneret died that night in the flames, but Kinneret Chaya was born."

Today Kinneret Chaya lives a full life as a documentary film editor. She works at home so that her fragile skin does not see the sun. She has undergone numerous operations to restore her face, and she goes through it all with enormous grace. Kinneret Chaya still suffers but her smile, glorious teeth, and beautiful full lips are miraculously still as they were before; no, that is not true, it is wider because today she knows why she is alive.

Thank you for caring,

Mike Evans

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