Aug. 9 marked 24 years since the Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem, when a Hamas suicide bomber entered the bustling establishment and took the lives of 16 people, including eight children and a pregnant woman. Some 130 were wounded.

Three Americans were killed in the attack. Two died on the day of the bombing: Malka Roth, 15, and Judith Shoshana Greenbaum, a pregnant 31-year-old teacher. A third American, Chana Nachenberg, died in May 2023 after 22 years in a coma.

Ahlam Tamimi, 44, the terrorist who helped plan and engineer the attack, lives freely in her native Jordan. Israel had arrested her within weeks of the attack but released her as part of the Gilad Shalit deal in October 2011. Under a then-Netanyahu government, 1,027 prisoners, 280 of them serving life terms, were release

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