A number of days have passed since the tragedy in Uman, the tragic death of Elya Eli on Rosh Hashanah but a levaya in Eretz Yisrael is still not happening. The body of the niftar was brought to the Kiev Airport on Sunday (4 Tishrei) in the hope of placing it on a flight home to Israel, but at the last moment, a bureaucratic snag prevented this from happening.

Shimi Grossman, the Zaka commander in Uman is quoted by Kikar Shabbat as saying �During the entire day Sunday, we were involved in arrangements to fly the niftar home for kvura. We managed to avoid a requested autopsy Baruch Hashem. We managed to get eight of the nine permits required�.

Zaka�s Ukraine commander, Yaakov Zilberman, has been working tirelessly towards getting the paperwork in order to permit a levaya.

AS WE PUBLISH: It appears the final permit has been granted and with Hashem�s help the body will be leaving the Kiev on a 1:00pm flight, but this is not yet confirmed.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)