A U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has ordered the government of Iran to pay $12,904,548 to the estate and family of Marla Bennett, who was killed in a terrorist attack on July 31, 2002, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Bennett, of San Diego, who was 24 years old at the time of her death, was one of nine students and workers killed in the attack at the Frank Sinatra cafeteria at the university’s Mount Scopus campus. Bennett, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, was a graduate student in Judaic studies at the Hebrew University at the time.
In his decision, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth determined that the attack was carried out by members of the Hamas terrorist movement, which is supported by the Iranian government, and that the latter therefore bears responsibility for the attack.
The Hebrew University administration said that it pays tribute to the memory
of Marla Bennett and all of the other victims of the terrorist attack and expressed satisfaction at the decision of the court, which perhaps will ease, if only slightly, the sorrow of the family.
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