Three members of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, including a rabbinical court judge and the director of a girl’s school, are set to be buried on Thursday, following a deadly shooting attack on a crowded bus stop at the entrance to Jerusalem.
The three victims of Thursday morning’s shooting attack in Jerusalem were identified as 73-year-old Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, 67-year-old Hanna Ifergan and 24-year-old Liviya Dickman.
Six other people were injured, two of them seriously, three moderately, and one lightly. The assailants, two Palestinian brothers from the neighborhood of Tzur Baher in East Jerusalem, were shot dead.
Rabbi Wasserman was a judge in the rabbinical court in Ashdod and was eulogized by the Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, who called him a “scholar of wisdom and a virtuous individual” and said that the “rabbinic courts will miss his majestic image that influenced only goodness and kindness.”
Expressing his grief at Wasserman’s passing, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau praised the rabbi, a scion of the Belz rabbinic dynasty, as someone who had “devoted his life to the rabbinical court with enormous dedication.”
“Rabbi Wasserman, one of the oldest and most important judges in Israel's courts, served the people of Israel for many years with dedication and kindness,” Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli tweeted. “My condolences to his dear family that they know no more sorrow.”
Hanna Ifergan, a resident of Jerusalem’s Makor Baruch neighborhood, served as the principal of the Banot Hadassah school in Beit Shemesh. The daughter of Tunisian immigrants, who grew up in Safed, she was described by the ultra-Orthodox Behadrei Haredim news site as “a famous woman of kindness who opened her home to evacuees from the south” displaced by the ongoing war against Hamas.
“Her home on Rashi Street in Jerusalem was wide open,” it reported, adding that she left behind only one daughter.
Liviya Dickman, a resident of the capital’s Har Nof neighborhood, was a teacher at the Derech Emunah school, part of the ultra-Orthodox Chinuch Atzmai educational network, whose husband was a full-time student at Jerusalem’s Mir yeshiva.
Haim Biton, the Shas minister who oversees ultra-Orthodox education at the Education Ministry, expressed shock at Ifergan and Dickman’s deaths on “their way to educate the children of Israel” when they were murdered, website Haredim 10 reported.
“Our condolences to the family members, the teaching staff and their hundreds of students,” said Biton. According to Haredim 10, Dickman was pregnant with her first child at the time of her death.
The attackers arrived by car at the Givat Shaul junction, which serves as the main entrance to Jerusalem, at around 7:40 A.M. and fired gunshots towards civilians waiting at a bus station. Both were armed with a handgun and an M-16 rifle.
Two soldiers and a civilian in the area fired back at them, killing the attackers. Inside their car, cartridges with hundreds of rounds of ammunition were found.
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