November 11, 2007, 03:26:24 PMI regret to inform you that two sons of Rabbi Kreuser, the Rav of Mitzpe Yericho and the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat HaRa'ayon HaYehudi in Jerusalem, were killed in a fiery car accident on the main highway just outside of Mitzpe Yericho. They will be buried tonight at 12:30 in Har HaMenuchot.
Four Residents of Mitzpe Yericho Killed in Crash
(IsraelNN.com) Four residents of one Negev town were killed in a car crash on Sunday. One of those killed was a soldier; three were children. The accident took place when the truck in which the group was traveling went out of control due to the rain and hit an oncoming bus.
Eitan Orenbach, 12, Ahiya Huri, 12, Yishai Kreuser, 13, and Shlomo Kreuser were killed in the accident. Another four passengers were wounded. Shlomo Kreuser served as a captain in the IDF’s elite Duchifat unit. He and Yishai Kreuser were both sons of Mitzpe Yericho’s rabbi, Rabbi Yehuda Kreuser.
Three of Mitzpe Yericho Crash Victims Buried
(IsraelNN.com) Three victims of the fatal crash near Mitzpe Yericho were buried overnight on Sunday. Ahiya Huri, 13, and brothers Shlomo Kreuser, 24, and Yishai Kreuser, 13, were buried in Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem.
A fourth victim of the crash, Eitan Orenbach, will be buried at 3 p.m. on Monday. A fifth passenger in the car, a friend of the three teenagers who were killed, was badly wounded in the crash and is hospitalized in Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem. His name for prayers: Yehoshua Shlomo Peretz ben (son of) Ayalah.
The four crash victims were killed on Sunday when their truck overturned due to the rain and hit an oncoming bus. A young Bedouin girl and a 60-year-old woman were also killed in car accidents on Sunday, bringing the total number of fatalities so far in 2007 to approximately what it was in November of 2006 despite police reports of a significant reduction in the number of traffic fatalities this year.