This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.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.
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] In the investigation that followed the bombings, authorities uncovered an arsenal of PFLP weaponry including explosives.
[5] On 25 February 1969 the same PFLP terrorists planted two bombs in a window of the British Consulate in Jerusalem.
[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.