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Terror victim’s daughter gives birth to baby girl

Sarah Techiya Litman and Ariel Biegel invited whole country to their wedding last Nov., soon after bride’s father and brother were murdered

Sarah Techiya Litman and Ariel Beigel marry in Jerusalem in November 2015, two weeks after her brother and father were killed in a terror attack (YouTube screenshot)

An Israeli woman who postponed her wedding after her father and brother were killed in a West Bank terror attack, and then invited the whole country to attend, gave birth to a baby girl on Yom Kippur.

Thousands of Israelis attended the wedding of Sarah Techiya Litman to Ariel Beigel last November, a week after the couple had been scheduled to marry.

Rabbi Yaakov Litman, and Netanel, 18, were shot to death near the Otniel settlement as they drove in a car with five other family members to the Shabbat pre-wedding celebrations.

“This evening, instead of wearing the bridal dress, I will sit on the floor with a torn shirt,” Sarah said on Nov. 19, the original date of her wedding, the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot reported. “But very soon, we will marry in a large and happy wedding. We will go on and be happy as father and Netanel always were. We will not be crushed.”

Australian students on gap year program in Israel attend wedding of Sarah Techiya Litman and Ariel Beigel. Jerusalem, November 26, 2015. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)

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