‘Special and rare person’: Bomb victim Tadese Tashume Ben Ma’ada buried in Jerusalem


Hundreds attend funeral of 50-year-old who succumbed to wounds sustained in attack; cousin says he’d worked until his last moment to help relatives emigrate from Ethiopia

Tadasa Tashume Ben Ma’ada, 50, who was critically injured in a deadly bombing attack at the entrance to Jerusalem and later died at the hospital, on November 26, 2022. (Courtesy)

Family and friends attend the funeral of Tadese Tashume Ben Ma'ada, who died of wounds sustained in a bomb attack at the entrance to Jerusalem, at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem, November 27, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Family and friends attend the funeral of Tadese Tashume Ben Ma’ada, who died of wounds sustained in a bomb attack at the entrance to Jerusalem, at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem, November 27, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Addressing the hundreds of mourners at the funeral at the Har Hamenuhot Cemetery, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion said he had met Ben Ma’ada the evening before the bomb attack at the inauguration of a new community center for the Ethiopian community.

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