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{{Infobox terrorist attack
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|location=[[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]]
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|date=21 March 1997<br>approximately 13:40 pm ([[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]]+2)
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|type=[[Suicide attack|suicide bombing]]s
|fatalities=3 civilians (+ 1 bomber)
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|perps=[[Hamas]] claimed responsibility
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The '''Café Apropo bombing''' was a Palestinian [[Suicide attack|suicide bombing]] which occurred on 21 March 1997 in a [[Coffeehouse|coffee shop]] in [[Tel Aviv]]. Three women were killed in the attack and 48 were injured.

==The attack==
The attack occurred on 21 March 1997, on the eve of the [[Purim]] holiday, at around 13:40, when a Palestinian [[suicide bomber]] detonated an explosive device which was concealed in a handbag in the entrance to the [[Coffeehouse|coffee shop]] "Apropo" in Tel Aviv. The force of the explosion killed three young women in their early 30s, one of them was three months pregnant.<ref name=timesdaily>{{cite news|last=Perry|first=Dan|title=Tel Aviv suicide bombing kills four|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zU8eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XccEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1240,2952689|accessdate=17 November 2012|newspaper=Times Daily|date=22 March 1997|agency=Associated Press|location=Tel Aviv}}</ref>

===Perpetrator===
The perpetrator has been identified as Musa Abd al-Qadir Ghanimat from the [[West Bank]] village of [[Surif]]. He was member of a [[Hamas]] cell run by a relative, Ibrahim Ghanimat, who was finally captured in 2005. The cell, sometimes called the "Surif squad", is also responsible for several other attacks against Israeli targets.<ref name=weiss>{{cite news|last=Weiss|first=Efrad|title=Senior Hamas fugitive nabbed|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3154157,00.html|accessdate=17 November 2012|newspaper=YNet|date=10 November 2005}}</ref> It was believed at least at some point during the investigations that the perpetrator had no intention to die as a suicide bomber, but that the timing device misfired.<ref name="LoLordo">{{cite news|last=LoLordo |first=Ann |title=2 Israeli families find common bond in death Hamas cell accused of killing their children and nine others |url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-04-13/news/1997103083_1_edri-dasberg-israeli-security |accessdate=20 December 2014 |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|quote=Israeli security and military officials now believe that the suspected bomber didn't intend to kill himself in the incident. They say the timing device misfired and Musa Ghanimat, a father of four, died accidentally.|date=13 April 1997 }}</ref>

== Aftermath ==
[[File:Monument of bombing in Cafe Apropo.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The memorial built at the site of the event in memory of the victims of the attack]]
Following the attack, the [[Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel)|Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate]] found for the first time clear evidence which proved that the Palestinian leader [[Yasser Arafat]] was encouraging and initiating militant attacks on Israeli civilians within Israel in order to advance the negotiations with Israel.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/64144587.html?dids=64144587:64144587&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+24%2C+1997&author=JON+IMMANUEL+and+Jerusalem+Post+Staff&pub=Jerusalem+Post|work=The Jerusalem Post|first1=Jon|last1=Immanuel|title=Ya'alon: Arafat okayed terror Army chiefs warn of future attacks|date=21 March 1997}}</ref>

A monument has been placed near the site of the attack which was created by the artist Eliezer Weishoff. The monument depicts three roses which were cut off.<ref name=ipart>{{cite web|last=Weishoff|first=Eliezer|title=Apropo Cafe Bombing Memorial|url=http://israelpublicart.com/public_art/?art=apropo-cafe-bombing-memorial|publisher=Israel Public Art|accessdate=17 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023084305/http://israelpublicart.com/public_art/?art=apropo-cafe-bombing-memorial|archive-date=23 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The attack is remembered among the Israeli public, in part, due to the picture taken of a six-month-old infant girl in a clown costume who survived the attack because she was saved by her mother, who protected her with her body from the force of the blast. In January 2015, the child from the photograph, since identified as Shani Winter, joined the [[Israeli Defense Forces]], accompanied by the same traffic policewoman who carried her in the photo.<ref>{{cite news|last=Glickman|first=Eitan|title=Baby from Apropo Cafe bombing is all grown up - and joining the IDF|newspaper=Ynetnews|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4611100,00.html|publisher=Ynet News|date=4 January 2015}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Terrorist attacks against Israelis in the 1990s}}
{{Palestinian militancy attacks in the 1990s}}

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[[Category:Explosions in 1997]]
[[Category:1997 crimes in Israel]]
[[Category:1990s murders in Israel]]
[[Category:Hamas suicide bombings]]
[[Category:Terrorist incidents in Tel Aviv]]
[[Category:1990s in Tel Aviv]]
[[Category:Islamic terrorist incidents in 1997]]
[[Category:Building bombings in Israel]]
[[Category:Terrorist incidents in Israel in 1997]]
[[Category:1997 murders in Asia]]
[[Category:Female murder victims]]
[[Category:Islamic terrorism in Israel]]

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