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JERUSALEM — Yaffa Levy was already too familiar with terrorism.

Her son, Yovav, was one of the 13 killed in the March 1996 suicide bombing at Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Center.

As a result of that tragedy, which occurred close to the Purim holiday, she and her husband decided to have another child.

On Friday of last week, a pregnant Yaffa Levy was in the Cafe Apropos in downtown Tel Aviv when a suicide bomber carrying an explosive in a duffel bag walked in, killing three Israelis and wounding dozens more.

Levy was wounded, but she survived. And hours later, she gave birth to another son, Matan.

Others wounded in the attack, which came shortly before Purim as well, were also no strangers to such violence.

Adi Nissim, a Tel Aviv resident and messenger, had survived two previous suicide bombings. In both of those attacks he helped the wounded before rescue and security teams came.

"Fate must be on my side, and for that reason I'm saved each time," Nissim said.

Not everyone was so fortunate.

Two of those killed in the 1:45 p.m. blast were Anat Rosen-Winter, 31, a lawyer, and Yael Gilad, 32, a social worker, both of Tel Aviv.

The friends had arranged to meet at the cafe.

Gilad's twin sister, Michal, was also supposed to have met them. Minutes before the blast, Yael phoned her sister and told her to hurry because they were ordering.

Michal Gilad, the twin sister, was on her way to the restaurant when the bomb went off. She heard the explosion from her car.

Rosen-Winter had brought along her 6-month-old daughter, Shani, who was moderately wounded in the explosion.

When Rosen-Winter's parents saw television footage of the attack, they recognized their wounded granddaughter, who was dressed in a clown costume for Purim, being carried off by police.

Also killed was Michal Medan-Avrahami, a 31-year-old doctor who lived in Herzliya.

Medan-Avrahami, who was 16 weeks pregnant, had gone to the cafe with her husband, mother-in-law and niece.

Moshe Gilad, the father of Yael Gilad, said after the attack: "I want the peace process to continue so that there will be no more tragedies such as this one."