Ohad Lipnick, the father of Ori and Roi Lipnick Z”L who were killed in a car accident on Tuesday night near their hometown of Shavei Shomron, was brought to the funeral of his children on Wednesday evening in a stretcher bed. Ohad, who was moderately injured in the motor vehicle accident that claimed the lives of two of his children and seriously injured his wife and a third child, was brought from Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba to the funeral by a United Hatzalah ambulance.

He came, with a United Hatzalah medical team accompanying him and safeguarding his medical condition so that he could accompany his children on their final journey to the cemetery in Shavei Shomron. Ohad and Shirley’s third child, a 13-year-old boy, was supposed to celebrate his bar mitzvah next month. Right now he and his mother are still hospitalized and in serious enough condition that they could not attend the funeral.

Ohad eulogized his children and said: “Ori was born shortly after the Second Lebanon War. She was our primary helper in the house, always volunteering to wash the floors before Shabbos. She always had a smile that would light up the entirety of the Shabbos day. We called you Ori because of the passuk: “Kumi ori ki va orech v’kavod Hashem alayich zarach.”

“Roi Aharon, how much joy you brought us all. You will be missed at our Shabbos table. You always knew all the answers to the questions I would ask you. Ori and Roi, my son and my daughter. I wish to say goodbye to you on behalf of your mother and Achia who are still in the hospital. God, I do not understand this string of tragedies that you draw out before us. I don’t understand how you took these two children.”

“What can possibly be said? There is nothing to say,” said the Rabbi of Tzefat Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu who was the first among the eulogizers. “These children are lying here and it is all because of the wild driving of people who have no respect for life, no respect for the living, no honor of happiness and who don’t honor or respect children. These are people who scorn life. How much pain it causes. There is no way to find comfort from this. We are all gathered here, this large crowd to wish a speedy recovery to the mother of these children who still hasn’t woken up. May God give her a speedy recovery.”

Following initial investigations of the traffic investigators, it was deemed that a Palestinian vehicle that was traveling at wildly dangerous speeds, hit the security barrier and was thrown into the center of the highway. It closed off the lane of the Lipnick’s family car, that had been returning from Kfar Yonah to their home in Shavei Shomeron.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)