Inbar Segev Vigder, 33, of Jaffa, was one of seven people killed in the terror attack perpetrated by two terrorists in Jaffa this evening (Tuesday, 1 October 2024). Six victims were pronounced dead on the scene, the seventh succumbed to wounds after arrival at the hospital. Another 16 people were wounded in the attack.

A physical training coach and owner of a Pilates studio in Tel Aviv, she was carrying her nine-month-old baby in a sling when the attack took place. She protected her baby with her body, and he was miraculously unhurt in the attack. She is survived by her husband and child.

The two Palestinian assailants, identified as residents of the West Bank city of Hebron, were in Israel illegally. According to police, one of the assailants was armed with a rifle and the other with a knife, and they attacked light-rail passengers and passers-by near a light-rail station on Jaffa's Jerusalem Boulevard. Security forces subsequently neutralized both perpetrators.

The terror attack — one of the deadliest single attacks in Israel in recent years — came just minutes before Iran launched a massive missile attack on Israel.