Dimona bombing victim's son: Mom was to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary

Dr. Lyubov Razdolskaya, who was killed in a terrorist bombing in Dimona on Monday, was laid to rest in the Be'er Sheva cemetery on Tuesday. Rodolskaya's husband, Edward Gadlin, is currently hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the city's Soroka Medical Center in critical condition.

The couple worked at the physics department of the Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva over the last ten years.

Michael Gadlin, one of the couple's two sons and a professor at the university's Physics department, told Haaretz of the incident, saying "I was in Be'er Sheva, and I spoke to mom shortly after 10 a.m. My parents were on their way to the bank to run errands and she told me that they had completed their errands. After 30 or 40 minutes, my daughter called and told me that there had been a bombing in Dimona."

"I called them but there was no answer at home or their cell phones," Gadlin continued. "We knew that people had been hurt so I called the hospital. They weren't among the wounded, but we knew that one of the wounded people had not been identified. Only in the afternoon did we find out that the person in critical condition was our father. At that moment it became clear that the person that was killed was mom."

Gadlin recounted that "the identification process took a long time and it was very difficult. Only after midnight were we notified that it was certain."

The sons refused to say any more about their mother, saying that it was a private matter. They only said that their parents were meant to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this year.

Professor Reuven Shocker, the head of the Ben Gurion University physics department, said Tuesday that the two were "theoretic physicists. They dealt with topics regarding the physics of elementary particles and published numerous articles on behalf of the university." He also told Haaretz that the couple had immigrated to Israel in the 1990's.

	Doctor of physics Lyubov Razdolskaya who was killed in a suicide bombing in Dimona on Monday. (Haaretz)