Rabbinical representatives who inspected the Shabbos eruv after police and security officials left the impact site of a missile that fell on the border between Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan on Tuesday evening couldn’t believe their eyes.
To their astonishment, the eruv that passes through the area wasn’t torn or damaged at all, remaining intact amid extensive destruction from shattered windows and glass due to the heat of the fire and debris. The missile shrapnel that fell [from an Iranian Fateh-110 surface-to-surface ballistic missile and not an interceptor missile as was initially reported], injured five people, knocked down a high-voltage power line, caused a fire, and damaged several buildings and an empty bus.
On Tuesday morning, several Rabbanim from Bnei Brak toured the area to see the extent of the neis.
Watch the video below, filmed by photographer Shuki Lehrer: The elderly Rav with the cane in the video is HaRav Shevach Tzvi Rosenblatt, one of Bnei Brak’s Chief Rabbanim.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The tall Rav who is speaking is Rav Yitzchok Eizik Landa the other Chief Rabbi of Bnei Brak.
I recently saw that of the 90 farmers who kept shmita in the region surrounding Gaza, not one suffered any damage on Simchas Torah last year, while others around them didn’t have it nearly so good. Is this being publicized?
YWN – this is not the first time it’s happened that even though it shows that I’m logged in, when I try to post a comment it rejects it and says I have to log in. A minor inconvenice but still could you please fix this.
Thanks, Uncle Ben for the comment. It may be added that Rav Y I Landau is, like his father and grandfather before him, responsible for the Kashrus of the Eiruv.
Ipcha; His father Rav Moshe was a son in law of my uncle.