The 5-week-old infant who sustained very serious head injuries when struck with a table at a simcha hall in Beit Shemesh on Tuesday night the eve of 2 Teves, died of his massive injuries in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.

Hospital officials report the 5-week-old child arrived as CPR was being performed. The child sustained grave injuries to his head as a result of being struck by a table. Despite efforts and prolonged resuscitation, there was no alternative but to pronounce the child dead.

The event took place during a women’s conference in Beit Shemesh. Shlomo and Eliezer Brandmark, volunteers with United Hatzalah who live near the hall, said: “When we arrived at the site, the participants told us that the toddler who suffered injuries to his head was hit by a table that fell on him in the hall, and we gave him first aid until the arrival of a mobile intensive care unit.”

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)