91-year-old Israeli woman dies, months after rocket strike
ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — A 91-year-old Israeli woman who was badly wounded by a Palestinian rocket attack last May has died from complications from her injuries. Naomi Pearlman, a Holocaust survivor originally from Poland, was injured when a rocket struck her home in the southern city of Ashkelon during last May’s war between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. The blast killed her Indian caregiver, and both of Pearlman’s legs were amputated after the blast. Her son, Shuki, told the state-run Kan broadcaster that his mother had been hospitalized since the attack. “She survived the Holocaust, raised a wonderful family,” he said Sunday. “If there was anyone who deserved to be called ultimate survivor, it was her.”