6 Killed in Horrific Bus Crash

The Yeshiva World News

Six people, including children, were killed and 10 were injured when bus 402 from Jerusalem to Bnei Brak collided with a truck on Highway 1 on Sunday evening.

Among the fatalities were: Yaakov Heshin, 27, Israel Weinberg, 26, Hanna Peasa Frenkel, 23, all from Jerusalem, and Levy Yitzhak Amdadi, 17, from Yavne’el.

The levayas of five of the six victims of the Egged 402 bus crash will take place today, Monday, 6 Adar I.

The levaya of the sixth victim, Levi Yitzchok Amdari z”l, 17, took place at 3:00AM in Yavniel.

Yaakov Meir Cheshin z”l, 17:
The levaya will take place at 12:00PM at Shamgar in Yerushalayim and kvura will be in Har Menuchos.

Yaakov Meir was a member of the Breslov community and learned in a Meah Shearim kollel. He lived with his parents in Ramot. He was traveling to a shidduch on the 402 bus in the hope of closing and having a l’chaim towards entering the next stage of his life.

Yisroel Weinberg z”l, 26:
The levaya began at 10:30AM at Shamgar in Yerushalayim and kvura will be in Har Menuchos.

Weinberg lived with his parents in the Shmuel HaNavi area of Yerushalayim and was a member of the Slonim Chassidus.

The niftar was on his way to take part in a family simcha that was taking place in Freidman Hall in Bnei Brak.

Aharon Mordechai Cohen z”l, 18:
The niftar was a talmid Yeshiva Eitz Chaim Bobov. The levaya will begin today at 11:00AM at the yeshiva in Bnei Brak and then continue to Yerushalayim for kvura.

The niftar is described as a masmid, loved by all who knew him.

Levi Yitzchok Amdari z”l, 18:
The levaya took place during the night, at 3:00AM in Yavniel. Levi was a member of the Breslov kehilla and the son of Rav Hillel Amdari, a prominent rov in the Breslov Yavniel community.

Mrs. Leah Melamed A”H, 60:
Mrs. Melamed lived on Ezras Torah Street in Yerushalayim. The exact time for the levaya is to be announced. Her husband is Rav Naftali, a known talmid chacham in Yerushalayim.

Mrs. Melamed is a teacher for halacha in Rav Mendelson’s seminar in Yerushalayim. Her son is scheduled to get married in a month.

Mrs. Mendelson was a daughter of HaGaon Rav Yehoshua Gruzinsky, Rosh Yeshivas Bialystok and a talmid of Rav Baruch Ber the Birchas Shmuel ZY”A.

Mrs. Chana Pesha Frankel A”H, 23:
The nifteres was a daughter of the Biala Astrovtza Rebbe Shlita and the daughter-in-law of the Betushan Rebbe Shlita.

She was married for just two years. The exact time of the levaya is to be announced.

The accident occurred when the bus, which left Jerusalem for Bnei Brak at 5:40pm, apparently hit a truck that was standing on the road margins.

“The bus collided with a truck transporting marble plates, which was parked on the side of the road. A part of the bus got ripped in two. People were thrown into the air while the bus was moving,” said ZAKA spokesman Motti Burkchin.

The commander of the Beit Shemesh fire station, Reuven Yitzhak, who commanded the rescue operation, told Ynet: “We arrived at the scene and saw a truck on the side of the road. We were told the bus came at it from the left. The entire right side of the bus was peeled off, ripped out to the seats. We went on the bus and found fatalities lying between the seats.”