JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: The Hillel Yaffe hospital in Hadera announced Thursday that tragically, Rabbi Refoel Mordechai Fishhoff, a 35-year-old father of eight from Hadera, has died of injuries sustained in Wednesday’s stabbing attack in the city. Fishhoff had been in critical condition since the attack and unfortunately did not recover and passed away Thursday morning.
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Refoel Mordechai was born in 1989 to Rav Zvi Shraga and Sara Fishhoff. Rav Zvi Shlita is one of the heads of Yeshivas Beis Matisyahu and a rosh yeshiva at Knesset Shmuel in Beitar Illit, while his wife is a descendant of Rav Nosson Adler, the Nesinah Legar who was the chief rabbi of London.
Fishhoff was educated in Bnei Brak and later in the Knesset Yitzchak yeshiva in Chadera where he studied diligently and was loved by all.
After his marriage to the daughter of Rabbi Dovid Ostern of Ofakim, he established his home in Hadera and continued to study in the Kollel for many years.
Refoel Mordechai had known a miraculous recovery in the past after suffering a serious road accident near the yeshiva in Hadera, but on Wednesday when he was stabbed six times by the barbaric terrorist, he lost consciousness and unfortunately passed away from his injuries.
Blood-spattered seforim at scene of Rav Fishhof’s murder
He is survived by his parents and family, his wife and eight young children.
May Hashem avenge his blood.
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