The bodies of the seven Sassoon siblings who died in the most fatal New York house fire in years arrived Monday in Eretz Yisroel for Kevura.

The bodies of the children, ages 5 to 16, were flown into Israel’s international airport and whisked away by police escort in a convoy of cars toward Har HaMenuchos.

The jewish community in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn was shattered by the fatal house fire believed to have been caused by a hot plate left on for Shabbos. Investigators say the hot plate apparently malfunctioned, setting off flames that incinerated the stairs, trapping the children in their second-floor bedrooms as they slept.

The blaze killed three girls and four boys. Both the mother and a daughter – Gayle Sassoon and 14-year-old Siporah Sassoon – remained in critical condition.

(Charles Gross – YWN / AP)