The name of the victim of the Iranian missile strike in Bnei Brak was released for publication on Monday afternoon.
He was identified as Avraham Cohen, H’yd, 75, a resident of the city.
There were also 21 people injured in the attack, two moderately. They were evacuated to Maayanei HaYeshua Hospital in the city.
The destruction in Bnei Brak:
Photo: Ezra Trebalsi
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Oy! Oy vay! Hashem have rachmonus!
The Chazon Ish promised that the merit of Torah would protect the city of Bnei Brak from incidents of terror. Since his passing in 1953, there have been a number of occasions, most notably during the Persian Gulf War, where Reb Chaim Kanievsky invoked the Chazon Ish’s promise to extend the protection that had blanketed the Torah city for decades. Rabbi Kanievsky published a letter on the front page of the Yated Ne’eman wherein he promised that “there is nothing to be afraid of ”because “there will be no bombs in Bnei Brak.”
Similar words were said by Hgray”l Steinman during the Gulf War, when not one scud missile landed in Bnei Brak.
During the life of the Chazon Ish, when a bomb fell next to Argaman, on the border of Bnei Brak, the Chozon Ish said, “Argaman is not Bnei Brak”. Harav Steinman answered: “The Chazon Ish was not joking, that’s what he felt, that if it was part of Bnei Brak, a bomb would not have fallen there!
“When Chazon Ish of blessed memory said that there will be no bombs in Bnei Brak…that will certainly happen today, too,” Rabbi Kanievsky wrote. “The words of righteous men are not necessarily abolished after their death,” he added, as a means of explaining that the Chazon Ish’s promise still holds true.
Hashem, tzaddikim promised! Multiple Tzaddikim were gozer! Hashem needs to be mekayem!
@rebbitzen, what you say boders on kiferia, we are not privy to hashem chesbons, He does not owe us anything,
Based on my understanding (from my son who learns in a Bnei Brak Yeshiva), the neighborhood of Pardes Katz (where the missile hit last night) is the only area in Bnei Brak in which there are cars on Shabbos. Although according to the actual government borders, it is considered part of Bnei Brak, the Chazon Ish said that it was not considered Bnei Brak according to the havtachah which he made that no missile/bomb will fall in Bnei Brak. Since it is not an officially Shomer Shabbos neighborhood (although many residents there are definitely shomer shabbos), it doesn’t have the same status as Bnei Brak.
I agree 100% with E”Y yid!
I saw that many Israelis made the same point that the streets of pardes katz are open on shabbos and therefore not included in the havtacha.
Rav yitzchak zilberstein shlita said the same exact thing when there was a shooting a few years ago in bnei barak. People asked how can there be a terror attack in bnei barak? Rav zilberstein answered that the area of the shooting was an area where the roads are open on shabbos, therefore there is no shmira (incidentally, think it was also pardes katz)
So In essence, not only is it not a קשה how a missle could fall there, on the contrary, it is incredible that it fell in the one neighbourhood in that area that the streets are open on shabbos!!!
שיחו בכל נפלאותיו!