HAIFA, Israel — Hundreds of people from Israel’s evangelical and Messianic communities attended Abigail Litle’s funeral March 9 in the Christian section of a small cemetery in Haifa, mourning her loss, along with seven other teens and seven adults killed when a 20-year-old Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a Haifa bus March 5.
At the funeral, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer described Abigail Litle as “a true bridge between our two countries, having been born in the United States and now in eternal rest in the land of Israel.”
Yuval Steinitz, head of the governing body’s foreign affairs and defense committee, spoke in behalf of the Israeli government.
“On your coffin there was a cross, but on the flag there was the Star of David, and this symbolizes the hope that you and your family mark for courageous and new friendship between us,” Steinitz said, speaking to the deceased teen, according to CNSNews.com.
Her parents, Philip and Heidi Litle, had moved to Israel when Abigail was an infant in 1989. In addition to her parents, Litle is survived by four siblings. Abigail now is one of six students killed in Palestinian attacks among the 3,200 students at Haifa’s Reali School since the resumption of Palestinian-Israeli violence in September 2000, the Associated Press reported.
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