Eli Yifrach, who heads the Ashkelon Chevra Kadisha, has instructed his staff that there are to be no Hespedim (eulogies) at funerals due to the security situation. The �tahara room� is the only fortified room in the chapel complex, and as such, Yifrach may not permit participants in levayos to congregate in a hesped room.
In addition, all memorial services and planned visits to kevarim have been prohibited until further notice due to the danger of being caught in a rocket attack.� The city�s chief rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Blau has instructed residents to avoid visits to the cemetery, and funerals are to be conducted with a minimum number, no more than a minyan.
Rav Blau stated �To visit the cemetery today is pikuach nefesh�.
(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)
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If one visits a cemetery,he does not want to end up staying there before his time. Even though it may be a mitzva to go visit a grave,the act of doing a mitzva when there is a sakono like bombs falling there,will not protect someone.