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Police officer Rami Alwan hugs Shmuel Hayut, whom he saved at Meron. Father Avigdor Hayut sites to the left at their home in Bnei Brak, May 3, 2021 (Flash90)
A man was reunited on Monday with the police officer who saved him and his son last week at Mount Meron when the officer paid a visit to their Bnei Brak home, where they were mourning a second son who was killed in the tragedy.
Avigdor Hayut told Rami Alwan that he wanted to thank him from the bottom of his heart for saving his child, paraphrasing the Talmudic phrase that “he who saves a life, saves the world.”
That s where I realized I lost them, I did everything I could
Avigdor Hayut, who lost his son in the Meron disaster, meets with the father of one of his students who also perished in the tragedy; I loved him as if he were my own son
Sivan Hilaie |
Published: 05.02.21 , 18:35
Rabbi Avigdor Hayut lost both his 13-year-old son Yedidiyah and his student Moshe Levi in the tragic Mount Meron stampede that took the lives of 45 people and injured some 150 others last Thursday.
The three were among tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews who flocked to the gravesite of 2nd-century Mishnaic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for the start of the Lag BaOmer holiday.