Meron victims: Torah prodigy, singer from Montreal and father of two-week-old baby
Family members frantically attempted to contact their loved ones who were at Meron, not knowing if they were among the dead and injured; relatives of some victims learned of their loss when names of casualties began to appear on WhatsApp
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Published: 04.30.21 , 15:20
Simcha Bunim Diskind was considered a brilliant Torah scholar and prodigy in his yeshiva. The 23-year-old member of the Ger Hassidic Dynasty, a married father of two from Beit Shemesh, was among the 45 people killed in a crush late Thursday night at an overcrowded Lag BaOmer festival in northern Israel.