from Israeli prison in return for Wachsman's release. October 19 – Dizengoff Street bus bombing: 21 Israelis and a Dutch national are killed after a suicide attack on a bus in Tel Aviv. This was the first major suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Hamas claims responsibility for the bombing. November 11 – Netzarim Junction bicycle bombing: Three Israeli soldiers are killed when a Palestinian Arab detonated explosives strapped to his body as he rode his bicycle into an Israeli Army checkpoint at a road junction close to the former Israeli settlement of Netzarim. November 30 – 19-year-old female Israeli soldier Sgt. Liat Gabai is axed to death by the Palestinian Arab Islamic militant Wahib Abu Alrub in the center of the Israeli city Afula. December 25 – Jerusalem Binyanei HaUma suicide bombing: 13 people are injured by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem. Hamas claims responsibility. Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1994 include: October 14 – Israeli elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal attempt to free the kidnapped IDF hostage Nachshon Wachsman held by Palestinian assailants in the village of Bir Nabala in the West Bank; Wachsman and Nir Poraz, the commander of the rescue force, are killed by the assailants during the raid. Notable deaths January 10 – Yigal Hurvitz (born 1918), Israeli politician. January 12 – Nehemiah Tamari (born 1946), Israeli major general (Aluf) and head of Central Command. February 13 – Simcha Holtzberg (born 1924), Polish-born Israeli activist and Holocaust survivor. February 19 – Yitzhak Yitzhaky (born 1936), Israeli educator and politician. April 3 – Aharon Remez (born 1919), Israeli civil servant, politician and diplomat, and the second commander of the Israeli Air Force. May 7 – Haim Bar-Lev (born 1924), Austrian-born Israeli general and politician, eighth Chief of General Staff of the IDF. June 6 – Yohai Ben-Nun (born 1924), Sixth commander of the Israeli Navy. June 16 – Yohanan Bader (born 1901), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Revisionist Zionist leader and Israeli politician. July 6 – Baruch Osnia (born 1905), Russian (Belarus)-born Israeli politician August 8 – Mordechai Seter (born 1916), Russian-born Israeli composer. August 18 – Yeshayahu Leibowitz (born 1903), Russian (Latvia)-born Israeli philosopher and scientist. September 5 – Shimshon Amitsur (born 1921), Israeli mathematician. October 14 – Nachshon Wachsman (born 1975), kidnapped IDF soldier, killed during