Woman killed in Jerusalem terrorist attack named

 

Mary Jean Gardner

 

A British woman killed in the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Wednesday was named as Mary Jean Gardner, who was originally from Orkney, Scotland.

She died in an ambulance on her way to the hospital.

Ms Gardner, an evangelical Christian, leaves behind her parents, who live in Orkney.

She had spent much of her life living in Togo, west Africa, where she worked as a Bible Translator.  She was in Israel for six months studying Hebrew in order to go back to Togo to translate the Hebrew Bible.

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