Refael Daniel Aryeh ben Tamar, the 16 year old Beit Shemesh boy critically injured in the recent missile attack on a school bus by Gaza terrorists, succumbed to his injuries and passed away yesterday.
In slightly better news (but only slightly), the exhaustive joint Shin Bet, IDF, and police investigation into the murder of the Fogel family in Itamar last month at last turned up two teenage vermin from the Arab village of Awarta. The unrepentant teens, spawn of families with terrorist histories and rap-sheets, said they hoped to die martyrs, but they have it backwards; the Fogels died martyrs, and they will simply enjoy the good life in Israeli prison with the rest of their ilk who have been caught.
However, I would like to make an offer to any other would-be martyr: Come to my house, and I’ll be glad to help you die. For free.
I don’t like going into the seder thinking more about Amalek than Yitziat Mitzrayim, but one did eventually lead to the other, and as Rav Binny Freedman said in his parasha shiur last Shabbat, the Exodus is not the end; it’s only the beginning.
Shimshonit 
At least the murderers have been caught.
HaMakom yenachem…
At the time I learned of the murders, I believed I would feel some relief when the murderers were caught. I suppose I do, but reading how many people in Awarta knew what had happened makes me wonder if they will all be brought to justice. It’s such a hornet’s nest of hatred, I’m inclined to agree with Joe Settler at the Muqata that the whole village deserves to be razed, something that the Israeli government would never do (no matter how warranted).