At the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery, Hillel Weigal Yaniv 14, residents of the settlement of Har Bracha, who were murdered in the shooting attack carried out yesterday on Havara Road, were laid to rest. The funeral march left their settlement, and along Highway 60 they were accompanied by thousands of residents of Samaria and Binyamin holding Israeli flags.
Thousands filled the cemetery square, including family members, ministers, Knesset members, students of the Hesder yeshiva where the two studied, members of Hillel’s service and many more.
Photo: Yoni Rickner / Israel Hayom
(Photo: Yonatan Zindel/Flash90)
(Photo: Yonatan Zindel/Flash90)
The Rabbi of the Hesder Yeshiva Association, Uri Pinsky said: “The whole nation of Israel gathered to pay their last respects to these two holy angels, Yigal and Hillel Yaniv. They were members of the Seder yeshiva, with faith and values, always first for any task. They stood out in their Torah, in their sweetness, in their honesty, in their love of Israel. We all mourn together with the family and send a big hug to strengthen them in these unbearably difficult moments”
Hillel is a soldier on the Hesder track while his brother Yigal is on the Hesder track but before enlistment. In an unusual move, the IDF approved burying the two brothers side by side in the military plot, and therefore the funeral date was also moved. Instead of the eulogies at Mount Bracha, a military funeral will be held at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, starting at 2:00 p.m.
Settlers are waiting at the Ali intersection (N. Elyashiv)
Highway 60 in the Binyamin area (Binyamin barges)
Highway 60 in the Binyamin area (Binyamin barges)
Yigal Yaakov the 14th was supposed to celebrate his 20th birthday in two weeks, Hillel Menachem the 14th was 21.5 years old. Both were on their way from Mount Bracha to study Torah, to the seder yeshiva where they learn. Yigal studied at the Hesder yeshiva in Olga and Hillel studied in Kiryat Shmona. Their parents, Esti and Rabbi Shalom are the youth coordinators of the settlement Har Bracha.