It was allowed to be published that in the serious traffic accident that happened today (Wednesday) in the afternoon on Route 60 near the Ma’ale Lavona junction, the 6-year-old boy Matan Zinman, from the settlement of Shevot Rachel Binyamin, was killed. Matan was supposed to enter first grade this September. Matan was taken in critical condition to Hadassah Ein Kerem where the doctors fought for his life, and a few hours later they announced his death.
According to the evidence and the investigation in the field, an Arab woman drove wild on the road, took a dangerous detour on a white line and hit the car of the Sinman family head-on. The mother and her four children were traveling in the Zinman family car. All were evacuated in various states of injury to the hospitals in Jerusalem. The professional teams of the Benjamin Council and the Shevot Rachel settlement take care of the needs of the family and the community. Social workers accompany the family members in the various hospitals.
“Little Matan was snatched away from us.”
The head of the council Israel Gantz: “But a heavy burden has fallen on us. Little Matan was snatched away from us. We surround the family and the settlement of Shvot Rachel at this difficult time. This is a terrible event perpetrated by Arab miscreants who are rampaging on the roads after the State of Israel treats Yush as their backyard without enforcement. Unfortunately, as we cried out and we cry out every day, even the gaps in road development in recent decades in Judea and Samaria have a heavy blood price.”
The scene of the accident Photo: Moked Binyamin
Three MDA paramedics said: “This is a very serious accident, we saw two crushed vehicles, 5 family members were traveling in one of the vehicles, a 7-year-old boy suffered a multi-system injury, he was unconscious without breathing and without a pulse, we gave him life-saving treatment And we urgently evacuated him to a hospital while performing advanced and prolonged resuscitation operations, the other passengers were conscious, a 12-year-old girl was described as serious, a 32-year-old woman and a 10-year-old boy were evacuated in moderate condition, and a six-month-old baby who was in the baby seat was slightly injured.”
As someone who drives this road twice a day, a journey that ends safely is a miracle. Tonight just no such miracle happened. The wild and criminal driving of the Arabs is real terrorism. And in front of it is a horrifying police shortage and long-standing and criminal infrastructural neglect. We lived a no man’s life. I started to address this a little during my short time as Minister of Transportation, but it is far from enough. pic.twitter.com/1sbniTxBkp
— Bezalel Smotrich (@bezalelsm) July 27, 2022