Hanadi Tayseer Abdul Malek Jaradat was a Palestinian terrorist from Jenin, who blew herself up on Saturday, 4 October 2003 in a suicide attack on Maxim restaurant, a Haifa restaurant co-owned by the same Jewish and Arab families for more than 40 years.
10 Facts About Hanadi Jaradat
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Hanadi Jaradat murdered 21 Jewish and Arab Israelis, and injured 51 other people.
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Hanadi Jaradat had studied law at Yarmouk University in Jordan.
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Hanadi Jaradat reportedly carried out the bombing in Haifa as an act of revenge after Israel Defense Forces undercover operatives in Jenin killed her cousin and her younger brother, both of whom were members of Islamic Jihad, with her cousin a senior member of the Al-Quds Brigades, in a clash.
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Hanadi Jaradat had intentionally paused near a group of baby carriages in the center of the crowded restaurant.
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Hanadi Jaradat was the sixth female suicide bomber of the Second Intifada and the second who had been recruited by Islamic Jihad.
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Hanadi Jaradat was proclaimed by the Islamic Jihad as the "Bride of Haifa" to honor her "marriage to the soil of her homeland", an honor it previously reserved only to men.
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In 2005, the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam published a special supplement entitled "What Did Hanadi Say", consisting of poems honoring Jaradat and calling for Jihad.
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Hanadi Jaradat was the subject of Snow White and The Madness of Truth, a controversial item of installation art by Israeli-born Swedish composer and musician Dror Feiler, and his Swedish wife, artist Gunilla Skold-Feiler.
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Hanadi Jaradat said the installation was made to "call attention to how weak people left alone can be capable of horrible things".