Mother of Tel Aviv victim’s fiancée: ‘Instead of a wedding there will be a funeral’

The mother of Ayala, the fiancée of one of the victims of the terror attack in Tel Aviv last night, says that the family had planned to celebrate the couple’s engagement with a party this evening.

“In this house, where we are now mourning, there was supposed to be a party this evening,” Lia Arad tells the Walla news site. “They met by chance in South America and almost a year later, made contact again and started dating.”

She explains how she and her daughter Ayala desperately tried to contact Eytam Magini when news broke of the shooting.

“We are all devastated. They had started making lists for the wedding and had set up times to see venues,” says Arad, whose daughter became engaged to 27-year-old Magini last month.

“Yesterday we got the news that there was a terror attack and Ayala knew he was in a pub. She called him and he did not answer. I also called and he did not answer,” Arad tells Ma’ariv.

“We knew that if he hadn’t called to tell her he was ok, something had happened. I went to Ichilov [hospital]. From their faces I understood. Instead of a wedding, there will be a funeral,” she says.