Legal Opinion
Ben-Yishai v. Syrian Arab Republic
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided November 28, 2022No. Civil Action No. 2018-3150Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA YITZHAK BEN-YISHAI, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 1:18-cv-3150-RCL v. THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC and THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, Defendants. ; MEMORANDUM OPINION On November 4, 2001, sixteen-year-old Shoshana Ben-Yishai was riding a bus home from school through the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel when a terrorist with an automatic rifle shot and killed her. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad ("PIJ") claimed responsibility for the attack. Plaintiffs, Shoshana's parents and younger siblings, ask the Court to hold the Syrian Arab…
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