1979 Nahariya Attack - Aftermath

Aftermath

• The killing of Einat Haran is regarded as one the most brutal terror attacks in the history of Israel.
• A day after the attack, Abu Abbas, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Front announced from Beirut that the terrorist attack in Nahariya had been carried out "to protest the signing of the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty" at Camp David the previous year.
• In 1980 Smadar Haran married Yakov Kaiser, a clinical psychologist who had been severely wounded in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. They have two daughters. Smadar is now a psychotherapist with a master's degree in social work.
• Ahmed AlAbras was freed by Israel in the Jibril Agreement of May 1985.
• According to Leonard A. Cole, Smadar Haran led a campaign in Israel to honor the victims of terrorism just as it does its fallen soldiers. In 1997 on Israel's memorial day, a memorial wall to terrorism victims was unveiled at the military cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Herzl.
• According to Leonard A. Cole, In 2003 Samadar Haran opposed the release of Samir Kuntar in exchange for the bodies of the 3 Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah during the 2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid, and for Elchanan Tannenbaum, the Israeli businessman and former IDF colonel who was kidnapped by Hezbollah in Dubai after being lured out of Israel under the false pretenses of a drug deal. Although Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah insisted, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that "The murder of a family in Israel is unforgivable" and refused to release Kuntar. At the end Nasrallah backed down and Kuntar was not released in the 2003 swap.
• Samir Kuntar spent nearly three decades in prison before being released on July 16, 2008 as part of an Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap. He denies killing Danny and Einat, though admits to killing Eliyahu Shachar. He has never expressed remorse. In Israel, Kuntar is considered the perpetrator of one of the most brutal terrorist attacks in the country's history, while in Lebanon he is widely regarded as a national hero.