Staff from the Simta bar, where today’s two fatalities were gunned down, have returned to the scene of the shooting, mourning together.
Dozens of memorial candles have been placed on the ground amid the smashed glass.
Alon Bakal, 26, was killed in a shooting attack in central Tel Aviv on January 1, 2016 (photo via Facebook)
Alon Bakal, one of the dead, was the manager of the bar.
Shimon Ruimi, the second victim, was one of a group of childhood friends celebrating a birthday there when the gunman struck.
Shimon Ruimi, 30, from the southern town of Ofakim, had traveled to Tel Aviv for a friend’s birthday when he was killed in a shooting attack in the city on January 1, 2016 (photo via Facebook)
As of midnight, Israel-time, more than nine hours after the attack, the gunman — an Israeli Arab from Arara in the northern Wadi Ara area — was still on the run.
A gun shot hole in a glass window at the scene of a shooting attack at the Simta bar in central Tel Aviv, on Friday, January 1, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
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