Dror Soffer, z’l, the father of Facebook Israel CEO Adi Soffer-Teeni, was critically injured when a car accidentally plowed into him during a protest in the Tel Aviv suburb of Kiryat Ono on Motzei Shabbos.
Soffer, 82, was evacuated to Sheba Medical Center where doctors were forced to pronounce his death.
Israel Police said that the incident was an accident and there is no suspicion that the hit was intentional. The driver was a 20-year-old female IDF soldier and she is cooperating with the police, Kan News reported, adding that the driver was legally crossing the intersection when Soffer began crossing the road.
Soffer, z’l, attended the demonstrations on a weekly basis. A resident of Savyon, he was an architect by profession and is survived by three daughters and seven grandchildren.
Yehi zichro baruch.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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This really is biased, even if factually correct reporting. The expression “was critically injured when a car accidentally plowed into him” implies that the car driver was doing something untoward. That is the import of the word “plowed”. From the report, it is clear however that the driver did nothing wrong. She was legally crossing the intersection when Soffer began crossing the road. He was the careless one but the young driver will have to live with the consequences all her life. She doesn’t need YWN to add to her trauma by saying she “plowed into him”. Please reword your report.
Avreimi – well said;
but;
this is from the small “mistakes” of today’s media
see how YWN describes trump’s peace procass as “favoring Israel” or stonehenge as prehistoric or any other so called editing issues, describes protests on bar ilan without mentioning the rabbanim who called for them or the issues with the light rail,
see https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1859187/watch-police-empty-large-crowd-out-of-zichron-moshe-shteiblich-in-yerushalayim.html
where YWN happile describe an innocent talmid chochom as exchanging slaps with a police officer,