Yonatan " Yoni " Jesner was a 19-year-old Scottish Jew who was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber on September 19 , 2002 , in Tel Aviv . Yoni was one of 220 victims of the bombing attacks in 2002 . He was killed in the Allenby Street bus bombing . Hamas took responsibility for the attack . Yoni , born in Glasgow , was named after Yoni Netanyahu , who was killed while leading Operation Entebbe to release hostages from Air France flight , hijacked by Palestinian terrorists . Jesner was planning to attend medical school at UCL in London . He was passionate about his Jewish heritage and came to Israel to study in a Jewish yeshiva for a year after finishing high school , where he would eventually decide to stay for a second year . Jesner was a senior counselor in the Bnei Akiva youth movement in Glasgow . After his death , Bnei Akiva raised money to buy an ambulance for Magen David Adom in his memory . Each year , on the eve of the Jewish festival of Sukkot , his Yahrzeit is commemorated by his family . Also , he is remembered at a learning programme run by Bnei Akiva on the Jewish festival of Hoshana Raba
Allenby Street bus bombing
Allenby Street bus bombing
Israeli–Arab organ donations