Funeral of Rabbi Kanievsky: Police in high gear, key deputies in Gush Dan blocked
About 3,000 police officers, dozens of ambulances and Home Front Command forces are securing the funeral in Bnei Brak, which is expected to be attended by about a million participants.
Many schools in the center study online, and the police recommend not going to Gush Dan.
The movement is expected to return to the series at night
Shlomi Heller, Yaki Adamkar, Uri Sela and Amir Bohbot
20/03/2022
Sunday, March 20, 2022, 6 p.m.
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Moments before the checkpoints were broken near the house in Bnei Braklid, the house of Rabbi Kanievsky.
March 20, 2022 (Section 27A of the Copyright Law)
Significant traffic disruptions will occur this morning (Sunday) in the Gush Dan area from early morning until night.
This, following the funeral procession of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, who will be laid to rest in Bnei Brak in a ceremony in which, according to estimates, hundreds of thousands will participate.
The funeral procession will begin at 12:00 from the rabbi's home in Bnei Brak.
Sections of Road 4 have been blocked from 06:00 onwards and part of it is used as a parking lot and a kind of station for receiving shuttles and buses from all over the country.
The incident also affects roads 6, 5, and 2 - and many traffic arteries in Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan.
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Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The hinges are blocked
Bnei Brak was closed to vehicles entering and exiting.
Hazon Ish Street in Bnei Brak along its entire length and all the roads leading to it.
Jabotinsky Street is blocked from the Ben Gurion junction to Rabin Road.
The roads leading to Jabotinsky were also blocked.
Road 4, to the north and south, from the Morasha junction to the Mishmar HaShiva interchange.
Aluf Sadeh Interchange to Derech Hashalom.
Through the mother of the colonies from the direction of Ayalon Mall in both directions.
Traffic on Road 471 was blocked in the direction of Road 4.
Traffic on Road 1 was blocked from the Ganot Interchange to Road 4 to the north and will be diverted to Road 1 West.
Traffic on Road 4 was blocked from the north and will be diverted to Road 1 and Road 44.
Traffic on Road 44 was blocked from the Shiva Interchange to Road 4 North and was directed to Road 1 West / East.
The ascent from Road 461 from Mesubim Interchange to Road 4 to the north was blocked.
Road 461 from Mesubim Interchange to Road 4 to the north.
The descents from Kiryat Onvgvat Shmuel in the direction of 471 were blocked.
Shaareiya junction heading 471 west.
The riots around the house of Kanievsky and all of Bnei Brak began during the night, when thousands broke through the checkpoints set by the police, and hundreds tried to go up to the rabbi's house.
During the night, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu also visited Kanievsky's home. Due to the congestion, he returned immediately, and Netanyahu remained in Bnei Brak for nearly two hours, until he was rescued.
Netanyahu visits Rabbi Kanievsky's home (Photo: Walla !, no)
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The mass event also has implications for the conduct of educational institutions, emergency medicine and the IDF. The Ministry of Education announced yesterday that due to the expected congestion
, studies in schools in Gush Dan can be conducted online today.
Elementary school and two high schools study zoom. In Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan, the decision on whether to conduct distance learning was given to the directors of the institutions. In addition, Bar Ilan University and the Ono Academic
Campus study zoom.
In addition, the registration for the "first order" was canceled and the date of today's recruitment was postponed.
Magen David Adom issued a statement in which it asked citizens who may need medical assistance, including women in late pregnancy who are expected to give birth and chronic patients, not to be in the congested areas today.
This is due to the overcrowding that may delay the arrival of ambulances.
The police estimate that the cellular communications will crash for long hours in the Bnei Brak area during the funeral, and recommended that the public use wired communications in an emergency.
Commissioner Kobi Shabtai has ordered the use of the satellite communications system they recently purchased at the organization.
Outside the house of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in Bnei Brak.
Yesterday (Photo: Flash 90, Avshalom Shashoni)
Police fear a situation where the incident will be too mass, one that could result in casualties.
This, after the funeral procession of Rabbi Wazner, during which four people were crushed to death.
"This is a national event, one of the largest known to the State of Israel," the commissioner said after a discussion on the police
's preparations . On
such a scale.
"Jerusalem is a city with wide roads and streets where it is not difficult to allow the passage of such a huge number of people.
Bnei Brak is mostly built of narrow entrances where the great danger is seen, "they said." Our public does not see eye to eye in such cases.
"His goal is to get as close as possible to the stretcher of the great man of the generation, Major General Chaim Kanievsky, so the police are unfortunately not interested in them on the way. I suggest to the public that they give up crossing the city on Sunday."
Crowds outside Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky's home (Photo: Flash 90, no)
Rabbi Kanievsky's funeral procession will depart from his home on Rashbam Street in Bnei Brak. The funeral will take place in the direction of
the Zichron Meir cemetery in Bnei Brak, where Maran will be buried next to his wife - Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky
. After his death, as a sign of mourning for his departure, thousands flocked to the rabbi's home.
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