On February 21, 1969, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) carried out a bombing attack on a supermarket in Jerusalem, killing 21-year-old Leon Kanner of Netanya and 22-year-old Eddie Joffe, students at the Hebrew University, and injuring 9.

Supermarket bombing

The deaths and injuries were caused by a bomb placed in a crowded Jerusalem SuperSol supermarket which the two students stopped in at to buy groceries for a field trip. ^{[1] [2] [3]} The same bomb wounded 9 others. ^[4] A second bomb was found at the supermarket, and defused. ^[1]

In the investigation that followed the bombings, authorities uncovered an arsenal of PFLP weaponry including explosives. ^[5]

Bombing of British Consulate

On 25 February 1969 the same PFLP terrorists planted two bombs in a window of the British Consulate in Jerusalem. The bomb exploded in the apartment of a secretary at the consulate, who was not home at the time. There were no injuries, although the room was wrecked. ^[6] A bombing attempt at the Consulate the previous Friday failed when the bomb was discovered and detonated. ^[7]

Rasmea Odeh

These two attacks are often cited in connection with Rasmea Odeh, a PFLP activist who confessed to involvement and attained later a degree of notability after she was released from an Israeli prison in a prisoner exchange and violated American immigration laws. ^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]} In 1980, Odeh was among 78 prisoners released by Israel in an exchange with the PFLP for one Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon. ^{[8] [2] [3]}

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