The young man killed when a minivan flipped over early Friday morning, 28 Nissan, near Morasha Interchange has been identified as Chaim Dov Alter Z”L, 18, a son of a great grandson of the Imrei Emmes of Gur ZT”L ZY”A. He and a friend were in the vehicle that flipped over at the merge from Route 6 to Route 4.

Chaim Dov Z”L was born in Bnei Brak on 15 Tammuz 5759 to Rav Yaakov Yosef Alter of Rosovsky Street in the city. He grandfather was HaRav HaChossid Rav Menachem Alter of Yerushalayim, a grandson of the Imrei Emmes.

Family members explains a group of bochrim who learn together wished to travel to the tziyun of the Rashbi before the start of the new zman. He got a ride with someone on the return trip.

The levaya is set for today, erev Shabbos Tazria-Metzora [Eretz Yisrael] at 12:30PM from the home on Rosovsky Street in Bnei Brak to Har Menuchos in Yerushalayim .

תהא נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)