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A hachnasas Sefer Torah was held on Thursday evening the eve of 7 Marcheshvan in memory of Yael and Avigail Gross Z”L, who died after the family had an exterminator in their Yerushalayim home. Their brothers, Refael Yitzchak and Chaim Michael survived the ordeal B’chasdei Hashem, defying the predictions of the medical community.

The hachnasas Sefer Torah began at Beis Knesses Mishkan Shmuel in the Givat Mordechai neighborhood of Yerushalayim and continues to Beis Knesses Chanichei HaYeshivos Ohel David near Yeshivas Chevron.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Photos: Yossi Eisenstein, News 24)