Simta, the Tel Aviv bar where two people were killed in a shooting on Friday, opens for the first time since the deadly attack.
No music plays at the bar as the first costumers enter the venue. A special show in memory of the victims of the attack, Alon Bakal, 26, and Shimon Ruimi, 30, will take place later this evening.
Bakal was the manager of the Simta bar, one of the locations hit by a gunman. Ruimi, a resident of the southern town of Ofakim, was killed as he joined friends for a birthday celebration at Simta.
Memorial candles spell out the names of victims Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi, outside the Simta pub on Dizengoff Street in central Tel Aviv, on January 2, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
The attack took place Friday afternoon outside the Simta bar on Tel Aviv’s busy Dizengoff Street. Later in the day, 29-year-old Nashat Milhem allegedly shot dead Arab Israeli cab driver Amin Shaaban, whose taxi he had hailed, police say.
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