Three people were killed by Katyusha missiles in the North
over the weekend: R' Nitzan Rosben, 33, who was killed
Thursday night in Tzfas and a resident of Moshav Meron
together with her four-year-old grandson Hy"d.
R' Rosben's body was identified Friday morning. He had been
riding his bicycle to be with his four children in the
artists' colony. Rosben did teshuvoh a few years ago
and was studying at Yeshivat Ohr Yakar in Tzfas.
After he was mortally injured and passed away en route to
the hospital, ZAKA-North workers made concerted efforts to
identify the body to have it buried, but no identifying
documents were found on it. Only on Friday morning was he
identified by his fellow yeshiva students. On Friday he was
buried at the Tirat HaCarmel Cemetery. He is survived by his
six-year-old son, the boy's mother and his three younger
sisters.
A missile that directly hit a house in Moshav Meron
instantly killed Mrs. Yehudit Itzkovitz and her grandson,
Lior Pesachov Hy"d. The Itzkovitz family runs the
local market at the moshav.
On Friday the Pesachov family arrived from Nahariya to spend
Shabbos with the grandparents after fleeing the threat of
Katyushas in the Western Galilee city. After making
Kiddush and sitting down to eat, the missile landed
on the house. The other family members sustained injuries of
varying degrees and were treated at Ziv Hospital in
Tzfas.
On motzei Shabbos a ZAKA-North team arrived at the site,
spending hours gathering and cleaning the house, which had
suffered a direct hit and was almost completely
destroyed.
