25 years after the Sbarro bombing, one family is still fighting to bring Ahlam Tamimi to justice

On August 9, 2001, 15 people, including 15-year-old Malki Roth, were killed in the Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem during the Second Intifada. The attack was orchestrated by Ahlam Tamimi, a 21-year-old Jordanian journalism student, who scouted the location and later boasted about targeting places frequented by children. Tamimi was captured and sentenced to 16 consecutive life terms in 2003, but was released in a 2011 prisoner exchange. Malki's parents, Frimet and Arnold Roth, have since campaigned for Tamimi's extradition to the US, as Malki was an American citizen. Frimet Roth also revealed that then-justice minister Meir Sheetrit admitted the government had intelligence about an impending attack but chose not to warn the public to avoid panic, a decision she believes could have saved her daughter.