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)