PETER KOHN

AN 89-year old Melbourne woman is mourning the death of her great-nephew, who was one of the victims of a shooting rampage at a Tel Aviv centre for gays.

For Tema Alexander of Caulfield, the murder of Nir Katz is a double tragedy, as her nephew, Ram Katz, Nir’s father, died in an operational accident in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) 19 years ago.

Ram was killed in what came to be known as the ‘Tze’elim disaster’ in 1990, in which five soldiers were killed during training, when Nir was seven years old. Read the full story