TRAGEDY: Naftali Tzvi Kramer Z”L Struck And Killed By Bus & Killed Near Komemiyut While Returning From Hafganah

A terrible tragedy occurred on Tuesday afternoon when an 18-year-old yeshivah bochur was killed after being hit by a bus at the entrance to the Chareidi moshav of Komemiyut on Route 3533 at the entrance to Moshav Komemiyut. He was identified as Naftali Tzvi Kramer Z”L, a resident of Jerusalem and a Bochur at Satmar Yeshiva Gedolah in Komemiyut.

Naftali Tzvi Z”L was killed while on his way back to his yeshiva after participating in a protest against the autopsies. According to initial reports, the accident involved a bus operated by the Metropolin company that was transporting Chareidi girls. Witnesses, including the girls on the bus and yeshiva students cited by Chareidi media, stated that the bus was traveling at high speed.

The bochur was walking along the shoulder of the road together with friends when the fatal accident occurred. At this stage, authorities say there is no clear evidence that the driver intentionally struck him.

Details regarding the levayah will be published as they become available.

Naftali Tzvi Z”L was born in Jerusalem on the 27th of Shevat 5768 to his father, HaRav Yissachar Dov Kramer, a respected Satmar chossid in Jerusalem, and his mother, Mrs. Bracha Beila Kramer, née Gottlieb, daughter of HaRav Menashe Gottlieb.

He was raised in on Polansky Street in Jerusalem and was educated in the path of Torah and Chassidus. As a child, he learned at the Satmar Talmud Torah on Ezras Torah Street. In his teenage years, he studied at Yeshivas Yitav Lev for younger students in Jerusalem, and later advanced to Yeshiva Gedolah Yitav Lev D’Rabbeinu Yoel of Satmar in Komemiyut, where he was known as a serious and dedicated talmid.

Initial reports said that he was hit during a protest held against the autopsies for the babies who died at a Jerusalem daycare on Monday. However, shortly later, the police issued a statement saying that “there is no connection between the accident and the protest that ended earlier on the moshav of Komemiyut.”

Boruch Dayan HaEmmes…

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

8 Responses

  1. I’m a bit confused.
    “there is no connection between the accident and the protest”
    And yet your headline says there is.

  2. Such a terrible tragedy.
    Young lives snuffed out

    Young impressionable people placing themselves in extremely dangerous situations and being killed and injured in the streets
    A real miracle there aren’t more victims

    But:
    Why do I only see young kids and young men in the dangerous streets protesting?? And dying?

    Where are their rabbonim and roshei yeshiva??

  3. The government of Israel is made up of goyisha kep. Why don’t they build wide roads and sidewalks. They are afraid to expand and build nice big one family homes with wide streets for they don’t want to upset the European Union. More people are killed in car accidents than all the wars. Streets are dangerous. Two way traffic on narrow roads. How insane. We need Chareidim to take over leadership of which they will in twenty years. Then the entire land will be spread out and settled like normal people. The pork eaters want to only live in Tel Aviv.

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