BDE: Two Chareidi Victims In Road Accidents In Bet Shemesh And Jerusalem-TA Road

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In two tragic road accidents which occurred Sunday, two chareidi victims were killed, leaving their families bereaved and disconsolate at their untimely deaths.

In the first incident which occurred in Beit Shemesh, a 33-year-old chareidi father of eight, Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Anshin, was killed on Sderot Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes after he was hit by a truck at a construction site. An eyewitness to the accident said that “Anshin drove a bus and got off his bus sitting nearby. The truck driver arrived since he works nearby and Anshin commented to him on something, there was an argument between them and then the truck driver lost his temper, rammed into him and drove off at speed, nearly hitting another person. People threw things at him and he stopped and was arrested by police.”

Anshin was critically injured and passed away at the scene. As part of the police investigation into the accident, police requested an autopsy but after a demonstration near the site of the accident, police and ZAKA representatives reached an agreement and the body was released for burial.

Rabbi Anshin is a grandson of Rabbi Shimon Simcha Anshin of Meron and from a prominent Breslov family. He lived in Emanuel and then moved a few years ago to Beit Shemesh, serving as a bus driver for schoolchildren. In the evenings he would play the clarinet at various simchos.

Rabbi Anshin was brought to burial on Har Hamenuchos late Sunday night.

In another accident which occurred later in the evening, a car crashed into the back of a truck on the main road 1 between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv near the Shaar Hagai interchange. The driver of the car, 21-year-old Nehorai Shalom, was critically injured and died later in hospital.

Shalom, a resident of Rechasim, was the son of Rabbi Yisrael Shalom, one of the prominent members of the Rechasim community who has published books on halachic topics. He studied in yeshiva in Tiveria and later at the Rechasim yeshiva headed by Rabbi Eliyahu Tzion Sofer, later moving to the Ner Yisrael yeshiva in Elad. He was described as “having many good attributes, a man of loving kindness with a heart of gold who always cared and tried to help others. “Even in Bein Hazmanim he never missed 7:30 Shacharit prayers,” his friends remember, stating that he was a big Yerei Shamayim.

Nehorai Shalom z’l

May their memories be blessed