Hundreds attended the funeral for the second victim of the driver who smashed his car into a light-rail stop in eastern Jerusalem.
Karen Yemima Muscara, 22, who had come to Israel more than a year ago from her home in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to complete her conversion to Judaism, was buried Oct. 27 in the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem.
Muscara died the previous afternoon at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem from injuries suffered in the Oct. 22 attack. Her mother and her sister had been flown in from Ecuador and were with her when she died. Her father arrived in Israel to attend her funeral.
She was converting after discovering that she was descended from Conversos, Spanish Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism after 1492.
Her funeral took place shortly after the conclusion of the funeral in eastern Jerusalem for Abdelrahman al-Shaludi, the Palestinian man who drove the car that killed Muscara and a 3-month-old girl.
Israel and the U.S. State Department have called the crash a terror attack. Shaludi’s parents say he lost control of the car. — jta