Yeshiva bochur's brother was injured, "Pray"

"My brother's condition has improved slightly but he's in serious condition, he needs prayer, the family calls the public to pray for him," said in an interview with Behadrey Haredim Eliahu. – brother of the yeshiva bochur, 21 years old, who was wounded yesteday (Monday), in a terror attack in Pisgat Ze'ev in Jerusalem.

"Yosef Chaim," says the brother, "is a student Sephardi yeshiva gedola in Jerusalem, he traveled yesterday to the tomb of Shimon Hatzadik on the occasion of the hillula, and returned home to Pisgat Ze'ev. He went onto the light rail and came down at the station near his home. No one in his family had expected an attack will occur right here in Pisgat Zeev.

"When he was on his way home on foot, he noticed one of the terrorists and started shouting at citizens on the street, "watch out, terrorist!" he did not know that there is another terrorist, who came up behind him and stabbed him."

According to his brother, this is a yeshiva boy who is totally immersed in Torah study: "He is totally immersed in Gemara study at the yeshiva, that his sole occupation in life."

Photo: Police Spokesman

"There've never been attacks in our neighborhood, he was calm to go through the neighborhood. Regrettably there is no longer a safe place in Jerusalem in particular and in the country in general."

"As close to Hagaon R' Yoram Abergel zt"l," says the brother, "we see his prophecy coming true. The rabbi said: 'Until the Tenth of Tevet, take this into account, no one will remain, it will be something in the nation, it will be one kind of blow, when Shmitah is over, you will see what will happens... Hashem Himself, not by couriers, like in Egypt. Woe to the people.' Unfortunately it is actually happening".

In the meantime, many are praying on behalf Yosef Chaim ben Zehava. "In the evening, there was a prayer held in the neighborhood synagogue by Rabbi Nissan Salamani Hacohen," says the brother, "as well as at the yeshiva in which I learn."

In the afternoon, after 14:00, two suicide cousins aged 13 and 15 came from Ha'arba'a Street in Pisgat Zeev, where they stabbed Yosef Chaim ben Zehava (21), injuring him badly. The terrorists kept up going on Sixteenth Street, spotted a boy on a bicycle, stabbed and mortally wounded him.

A citizen who saw the stabbing of the boy ran toward the terrorists and they started fleeing toward Moshe Dayan Blvd. while the civilian was pursuing them. One terrorist was hit by a car. The second terrorist kept running. A police car of the Shafat station with an officer and a border policeman spotted the terrorist running towards them with a knife, the policemen called for him to stop, when he did not stop they fired at him and killed him.

The 15 year old terrorist died and his cousin, the 13 year old, is hospitalized in critical condition, while sedated and on a respirator at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus.

The other wounded person, the stabbed 13-year-old boy, came out of the operating room where teams of chest-heart surgery and vascular surgery collaborated. He will be on a respirator in a stable condition at the ICU. Pray for Naor ben Ruth for refuah sheleima.

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