Two weeks following the massacre in Kehillas Bnei Torah in the Har Nof neighborhood of Yerushalayim, policeman Yitzchak Weizman on Sunday afternoon 8 Kislev arrived at the Bnei Brak home of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita to share the play-by-play details with the gadol hador. He explained how he tried to neutralize the terrorists and bring the attack to an end.
Weizman was injured in the attack as he tried rescuing mispallalim from the shul. He explained he heard about the attack on his radio on the other side of the city and headed towards Har Nof as fast as he could.
“I fired at one terrorist and killed him. I also fired at and wounded the second terrorist” Weizman told the gadol hador.
At the conclusion Rav Kanievsky gave Weizman a bracha for a speedy refuah shleima. Mr. Weizman was escorted during his visit by volunteers of Yad Sarah, who are assisting him in his recuperation.
Four Har Nof residents HY”D and a policeman from the Druse community were murdered in the attack HY”D.
On motzei Shabbos Rav Kanievsky took part in a kenos hisorarus at the Lederman Shul in Bnei Brak. Other prominent rabbonim and roshei yeshiva shlita were also in attendance and addressed the event including Ponevezh Rosh Yeshiva HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Yidden are being asked to say much tehillim today for the refuah shelaima of one of the Har Nof victims, who is currently taken a turn for the worse and is fighting for his life. They have added the name Chaim. Please daven for Chaim Eitan ben Sara!!! Please spread the word. Modifiers, if you can present this as a separate post it would be a tremendous mitzvah.
Chaim Yechiel ben Malka (Mr. Rotman), hacked in the Har Nof attack has not yet woken up. His wife said that his life is hanging between life & the other side. Our tefillos are keeping him alive.