Hard feelings in Jerusalem after the serious attack yesterday (Friday) in the Ramot neighborhood.
At Shaare Zedek Hospital in the city, 8-year-old Asher Falai, whose 6-year-old younger brother Yaakov Israel was killed in the attack, is still fighting for his life, and was laid to rest last night before Shabbat.
June Rickner
Prayers were said this morning (Saturday) in the synagogues in the Ramot neighborhood for the healing of those injured in the stampede attack, one of them the father of Asher and Yaakov, Avraham Plai, who is hospitalized with his two older sons in moderate condition.
The 10-year-old brother Moishi was slightly injured, and has already been released from the hospital.
In the Ramot neighborhood, even before Shabbat, a local organization began to help the Plai family, which was torn apart by yesterday's attack.
A resident of the neighborhood told Israel Hayom: "The feelings are hard and the fear permeates. We are begging the government to allow the distribution of weapons in the neighborhood, in order to prevent more such disasters, God forbid. The deceased come from very well-known families and everyone here is shocked."
The scene of the attack in Jerusalem, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Police officers, civilians and medical teams at the scene of the attack in Jerusalem, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Last night (Friday) there was a slight decrease in the number of young people who went out to hang out at the recreation centers in the center and south of the city.
"There is a feeling of insecurity," said N., a regular soldier who went out with her personal weapon to a bar in Mahane Yehuda market.
"I went out to hang out because I was closed for two weeks at the base, but my parents were worried and wanted me to stay at home."
M.
Another soldier who went out to spend time in the area of pubs in the market said that there was a decrease in the number of people spending time yesterday, compared to a normal Friday evening.
"It's always like this after an attack," she said.
"People are afraid, there is a feeling that anything can happen anywhere in this city. But terrorism will not break us, not in Jerusalem and not anywhere in Israel."
The grave of Israel Plai who was murdered in an attack in Jerusalem,
The terrorist's vehicle inside the bus station at the scene of the attack in Jerusalem, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
In yesterday's stampede attack in the capital, a 6-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man were killed and five others were injured.
A vehicle crashed into a bus stop where many people were staying.
A police officer shot and neutralized the terrorist, who had a blue ID card from East Jerusalem.
In Jerusalem, the boy Jacob Israel Plai was laid to rest in Jerusalem.
His father, 42 years old, was operated on at Hadassah Mount Scopus and did not attend the funeral.
The brother of the victim, 10 years old, is hospitalized in a minor condition after being injured in the attack.
A senior police official stated that the shooting to neutralize the terrorist was at short range by two police officers.
The terrorist did not carry a weapon.
One of the murdered is Shlomo Alter Lederman, who got married only six months ago.
Lederman belonged to the Carlin Hasidot and studied at the "Tal Torah" yeshiva.
He was on his way to stay with his parents in Elad, Shlomo's wife was miraculously saved.
Ben Gabir at the scene of the attack, photo: Yori Yalon
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordered the terrorist's house to be immediately sealed off and instructed to increase forces in the sector and carry out investigations and arrests in the terrorist's vicinity. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gabir, who arrived at the scene, said: "Obviously, these measures are not enough at the moment.
The death penalty should be enacted for terrorists, next week we will advance the law on carrying weapons." Ben Gabir was greeted at the scene with angry chants: "You lied to us."
The terrorist is Hossein Karake, 31 years old from the Issawiya neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
The neighborhood says that the terrorist lived in the neighborhood with his family and that he has a blue ID card, but is not from the neighborhood itself.
An official in the neighborhood claimed to "Israel Hayom" that the terrorist was mentally challenged.
His family is originally from the Daisha refugee camp near Hebron, an area where the Popular Front is dominant.
were we wrong
We will fix it!
If you found an error in the article, we would appreciate it if you shared it with us