A day after the announcement that Saint Oren ben Yiftach the 14th, drove the terrorists to the scene in Elad and was murdered, his widow publishes a post and asks the public to allow her to mourn without engaging in decency.
She said: “People of Israel, take pity on us in our difficult time. Please read the family’s response to the slanders against my husband and understand how evil can be when the finger is light on the keyboard.
“Please allow us to mourn on the days of Shiva without engaging in defense against vicious attacks.”
The new widow attached the family’s response to the reports: “We are shocked by the discourse on social media and in the media in the heinous attempt to link our beloved son Oren to the criminal attack which he himself is a victim of.
“Oren worked as an honest and innocent shuttle driver who worked for a living. Just as a taxi driver does not check who gets in a taxi, he is not required to check work permits or stays. This is in contrast to a contractor who employs workers.
“Oren drove a rabbi to a Torah lesson and there is no dispute about that. According to what is said in the media, it is possible that at the end of this trip he was asked to drive workers to renovate a synagogue and he did so only without knowing of course that it was his death journey.”
The family added: “As far as we know, Oren fought like a hero in the vile murderers who attacked him when they came to the synagogue with an ax and a knife and slaughtered him, as in the darkest times in the Diaspora of a massacre of Jews.
“The family is now focusing on the severe grief that is another blow to a series of disasters that have befallen the family in recent years.
All our thoughts are to help the widow and 6 children deal with the terrible rift. We all hope that the accursed terrorists will be caught and executed exactly in the way they ended Oren’s life.
The head of the police operations division, Lt. Gen. Shimon Nachmani, commented on the reports last night and said: “I can say with caution that one of the murdered people led the murderers to the scene, this issue is under investigation.”