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At 7:16 AM, HatzolahIsrael said…
The following letter was written by Moshe Simons, a Hatzolah volunteer and close friend of mine from the Old City of Yerushalayim. Im posting this as I run out to the Bochurs Levaya in The Gur Beis Medrash in Geula. The Levaya is taking place only this afternoon due to the inconsideration of the Israeli Police to insist on a Autopsy.Following demonstrations all through the night in the streets of Yerushalayim and at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, the Niftars Body was only just released. May we be zoche to the coming of Moshiach speedily in our days.
NEWS ALERT| August 25, 2005
Young Jewish Man Murdered in Jerusalem. His crime - being Jewish.
I sit facing my computer, and words fail me. I have just witnessed one of the most tragic and traumatic events of my life.
A Jewish young man died in my arms tonight.
Yes, you read correctly. A Jewish man died in my arms tonight. His sin? Being Jewish in Jerusalem.
At about 8:25 this evening, we got a call from the MDA dispatcher about a stabbing on Rechov David - the shuk leading from Shaar Yaffo (Jaffa Gate) to the Kotel. I immediately left my apartment and sped over to the chaotic scene not far from there on a Hatzolah ambucycle. Upon arrival, a horrible sight greeted me. A young Jewish man, lying in a pool of his own blood, with a 15" knife sticking out of his stomach. After being at many bombings, car accidents and other traumatic events, this scene had the distinction of being the worst one I have ever seen.
His skin a very pale color, and his eyes half open, I reached him. The only people around were police officers, who didn't really know what to do. The young Jewish man was not breathing, and he had no pulse.
This is the nightmare of any EMT. Alone, as the only person with medical training at the scene, there is not much you can do. Many tasks need to be done, and many people are needed to do them. Starting CPR, connecting oxygen, starting numerous IV's due to massive blood loss and trying to stop the bleeding are some of the things that need to be done, but in the seconds that I was there, my mind stopped working. One cannot think rationally in such situations - one must act like a robot, doing whatever could be done as quickly as possible. First, I called for backup on my MIRS, and then I started CPR. Even with all of the expensive equipment that we have, there are times that the only thing you can use is a simple pocket mask.
Using a bag valve mask on a trauma patient that you are having trouble opening an airway for is a waste of time. It is close to impossible to use on your own on such a patient. I took out my trusty face mask, and started mouth to mouth resuscitation. I felt his lungs fill up with air, and I was slightly encouraged. One of the police officers started chest compressions (as well as he could), and we continued basic CPR for a minute or two.
At this point, an ambulance with a paramedic - Aryeh Yaffe - arrived at the scene, along with Rafi Herbst and another volunteer. We now had four sets of hands instead of one, and could now start to try to save the young Jewish man's life. We immediately searched for the wounds and tried to stop the bleeding. At the same time we tried to start an IV, but were having difficulty due to the massive amounts of blood that he lost. We continued CPR, this time with a bag valve mask and good compressions, and in the meantime, more volunteers from the Jewish Quarter arrived on foot, and quickly took my place. Shortly thereafter a MDA Mobile ICU arrived and continued to work on the patient - the Doctor I saw on their crew was one of the best I have ever seen working under pressure and keeping his cool - as well as giving fantastic care to the patient.
Soon, we had three IV's running, and we were trying to restart the young man's heart using drugs. Atropine, Sodium Bicarbonate were used among other drugs, and soon we had a heart rhythm on the EKG, although we did not have a pulse. We moved the patient to the mobile ICU who transferred him to the trauma center at Haddassah Ein Karem, but the young man was pronounced dead in the operating room - he had a massive gash in the veins and arteries in his stomach, and we could not save him. When I had arrived at the scene previously - he was no longer with us, yet we tried everything that we could to bring him back - to no avail.
What was the young man's crime? What did he do wrong? Why was he murdered by our 'peace partners'? To us, the residents of the Old City, these answers are clear. The arabs want us out of Israel - out of Jerusalem. They see clearly that violence and terrorism against Jews works, as witnessed in Gaza and Gush Katif - five years of violence culminated in the surrender of the Jews. Now, they clearly say that they want Jerusalem - and the way for them to get it is through blood - our blood.
A friend of mine commented tonight, "Jewish blood is not cheap. It's free."
The terrorism will continue - and will get much worse in Jerusalem. One thing I can tell you - we won't run. We will stand firm, and remain here until one side wins - us or them. The battle is for the soul of the Land of Israel - let no one think otherwise.
In the meantime, I'm sure you are asking yourselves - what can be done? The answer, as I see it, is threefold.
Physical help: This includes writing to congressmen, senators, politicians; trying to influence the viewpoint of others around you; visiting Israel; helping us in our struggle. After tonight, I've realized that every volunteer EMT in the Old City should have a gun with him - we need to raise money for that as well (I can be reached at [email protected] for more information as to how to donate). I never thought that as an EMT I'd be trying to raise money for guns - the instruments of death, but times have changed. There are also other medical items that we need - reach me at the email address above.
More importantly, we must realize that our fate is decided in Heaven. When a decree comes from before G-d, we must take a deeper look at ourselves and try to find what is wrong spiritually. Each of us must make additional effort in the spiritual realm to do more mitzvot and study Torah, and through that may we merit the rescinding of the terrible sword that hangs above our heads.
Let us cry together. Let us understand that a Jew murdered in Jerusalem must have an impact upon the entire Jewish nation - we must realize the depths that we have reached. We are a splintered, fragmented nation - each of us finding fault with the other. At the very least, let us join together in sorrow, and cry as one for the blood of a young man, murdered in Jerusalem simply because he was a Jew.
Please pass this message on. We must wake up and realize where this is leading. We must arise to the challenge given to us and join together to be victorious.
Written in sorrow by
Moshe Simons, EMT
Hatzolah & MDA Volunteer
Hatzolah Newsletter Editor
Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem
[email protected]
הרשום מעלה, מובא על דעת הכותב בלבד.
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תוקן על ידי - Shamos - 25/08/2005 16:43:26
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איך האב הנאה פין "באראפארקער"
פאריגע וואך אין א אשכול האט זיך געשטעל אין איין דרגא מיטן ראפשיצער רב זצ"ל
די וואך אינעם אשכול נעמט ער א קאמף מיטן סאטמערער רבי זי"ע בעל ויואל משה
ער שרייבט אויף זאכן וואס עס שטייט אין ויואל משה אז עס איז נעריש {גייטס צירוק צים פריעדינגען בלאט אין ליינטס זיין תגובה}
רבותי,דער "באראפארקער" קיקט אויס צי זיין זעלטענער חכם אזוינס וואס מען טרעפט נישט נערמאל
ער איז גרייט אפציקויפן די ברוקלין בריטש פאר די רייט פרייז גייטס פארהאנדלען מיט אים מען קען מאכן שיין קאמישען
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אפגערעט פון די קינדערישע סטעיטמענסט וואס ער שרייבט, אויף וואס סעיז נישט כדי צו רעדן.
נאר איין זאך. קוק וואס דער חכם שרייבט:
איז איינעם אמאל איינגעפאלען נישט צו מאכען קיין אייגענע שומרים? (אגב - פארשידענע גדולי ישראל האבען נישט געהאלטען דערפין מהאי טעמא),
קיינעם איז נישט איינגעפאלן נישט צו מאכן א שומרים. און גלייך דערנאך זענען שוין דא גדולי ישראל וואס פאר זיי איז עס גראדע יא איינגעפאלן.
ווען איך בין די, באהאלט איך מיך אין וואלד פאר בושה.
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| נשלח ב-25/8/2005 19:24 |
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הערמיך,די שרייבסט
ווען איך בין די, באהאלט איך מיך אין וואלד פאר בושה.
עס איז אבער נישט אמת, ווייל ווען די ביסט ווען "בארפארקער"שרייבסטע נאך אזעלכע זאכן
ווייל כידוע ווייסן זיי נישט פין סיג לחכמה שתיקה עס איז א זאך וואס די מענטשן ווייסן נישט
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| נשלח ב-25/8/2005 19:38 |
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British student murdered in Jerusalem
By Sam Knight, Times Online
A Palestinian man wielding a 12in knife stabbed two British students in Jerusalem yesterday, killing one, as violence flared just 48 hours after the Gaza pullout.
Shmuel Mett, 21, and Sam Weisberg, 22, both from Golders Green, North London, were walking back to the orthodox Mea Shearim quarter of east Jerusalem when they were attacked, apparently at random, around 8.30pm last night in the Old City, close to the Jaffa Gate, police said.
Both men, students at the Mir Yeshiva, a large Jewish seminary, were stabbed in the stomach in the attack. Mett died an hour later at the city's Hadassah hospital after Mr Weisberg managed to struggle to a nearby police station to raise the alarm.
Mett, who had been studying in Israel for two years, was engaged to be married in three months.
Mr Weisberg, who was taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre after the stabbing, is expected to make a full recovery from his injuries.
A huge manhunt is now under way in Jerusalem for the Arab assailant after images of the attack were reportedly caught on CCTV. The man threw away the weapon, a large kitchen knife, as he fled the scene.
Gideon Ezra, the Internal Security Minister, said investigators believed that the killing, the first deadly Palestinian attack for three years inside the Old City, was the work of a lone attacker.
"Without doubt, this attack was committed by a lone Palestinian who was not part of any movement which will make the search for him more difficult," Mr Ezra told army radio.
Police this morning agreed not to carry out an autopsy on Mett's body after his orthodox family requested that no surgery be performed on the corpse.
In the early hours of this morning, several hundred fellow orthodox Jews damaged a private ambulance outside Hadassah Hospital when rumours spread that the student's body was about to be taken to a morgue.
Three police officers were injured in the disturbance, in which four haredim, as ultra-orthodox Jews are known, were arrested, according to the Jerusalem Post. Meanwhile, at the site of the attack, a small memorial was set up and vandals scrawled anti-Arab graffiti and promises of revenge.
Shortly after the stabbing Israeli troops raided Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank and killed four Palestinians, including a leader of Islamic Jihad, Ribhi Amara.
The forces entered the camp and surrounded a house, intending to arrest five men in connection with suicide bombings that killed five people in Tel Aviv in February and five in Netanya in July, a military source said.
When the soldiers arrived, a gun battle ensued. Four people were killed, witnesses said.
Last night's violence was the first since Israel removed the last of 15,000 settlers and their supporters from 21 enclaves in Gaza and four in the West Bank. Shaul Mofaz, Israel's Defence Minister, said Israel's forces were expected to leave Gaza — occupied by Israel since June 1967 — in mid-September.
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DOES ANYONE KNOW THE NAME OF THE SECOND BOCHUR WHO WAS STABBED AND IS WOUNDED? HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE FROM AMERICA, DOES ANYONE KNOW MORE DETAILS? PLEASE POST. THNX
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| נשלח ב-11/10/2005 17:51 |
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 מצורף קובץהטקסט שלך כאן Palestinian admits killing U.K. yeshiva student
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent
Security forces have arrested a Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Hebron on suspicion of stabbing to death a British yeshiva student at the end of August and wounding a second student, the forces said Tuesday. Abed al-Muaz al-Juaba, 43, has confessed to the stabbing.
Shmuel Mett, a 21-year-old Briton studying at the Mir Yeshiva, was killed in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 24 and his fellow student, Sam Weissbard, 22, was wounded in the attack.
The Shin Bet, Israel Defense Forces and Jerusalem police arrested al-Juaba on Saturday. He came before the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for a remand hearing Tuesday.
Al-Juaba said he attacked the yeshiva students to avenge the throwing of a pig's head into the Hassan Bek Mosque in Jaffa. He said the attack also came in response to his finding a picture of a pig on a fence near his Hebron home.
Al-Juaba, who is affiliated with Hamas, told investigators he decided to carry out the attack in Jerusalem so he could "die near the Al-Aqsa Mosque and defend Islam."
The investigation indicates that on the day of the attack, Al-Juaba, who is married with two children and works as a shoemaker, took the bus from Hebron to Jerusalem. He got off at Abu Dis, where the West Bank separation fence has not yet been constructed. When he got to the Old City, he had coffee near Damascus Gate, after which he bought a butcher knife and prayed at a nearby mosque. After praying, he allegedly began searching for his victims.
That night, Al-Juaba told security forces, he noticed Mett, Weissbard and a third yeshiva student near Jaffa Gate. He stabbed Mett and Weissbard, threw away his knife and escaped.
Al-Juaba also said that after the stabbing he noticed police forces closing some of the Old City gates and entered a mosque, where he washed off blood stains, prayed and hid until the gates were reopened.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/634172.html
'A gentle guy who was very serious about his studies'
By Daphna Berman
Shmuel Mett, 21, a Gerer Hasid from London who had just completed his second year at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, was engaged to be married in three months. A former student at the Gateshead Yeshiva in northeast England, he was born and raised in Golders Green, in the heart of Jewish London.
Mett's wedding was to take place in England after Sukkot, and the young couple had planned to relocate to Jerusalem permanently. His fiancee was also a member of the Gerer community in Golders Green.
Rabbis, friends and study partners at Mir, one of the largest institutions of Torah study in the world, describe Mett as a popular, likable fellow who held religion and Torah study with the utmost regard and would study every morning before prayers, even when the study hall was still empty.
He is descended from one of England's most prominent Orthodox families and his mother is the sister of well-regarded London rabbi, Joseph Pearlman.
"He was a gentle guy who was very serious about his studies," Rabbi Aharon Chodesh, the Mir's spiritual adviser (mashgiakh rukhani), told reporters yesterday outside of the yeshiva.
Mett was one of an estimated 5,000 students at the yeshiva, which is located in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood and is headed by Rabbi Natan Zvi Finkel, a fiery religious figure who suffers from Parkinson's disease.
Home to Hasidim and Mitnagdim alike, the Mir is known for an open-door policy that manages to attract some of the best and brightest in the Haredi world, both in Israel and in the Diaspora.
"He was the kind of guy who could sit for hours and learn," Mett's study partner from the Mir, who preferred to go unnamed, said yesterday in a telephone interview. "There are only good things to say about him. He was nice and was very popular among our group."
Mett was accompanying his friend Sammy Weisbard, also of London, to the Western Wall on Wednesday night for ma'ariv, the evening prayer. Weisbard was planning to return to London for his own wedding, which is scheduled for later next month, and so asked Mett to accompany him to the Old City before returning to England.
After learning of the stabbing, the yeshiva was plunged into a state of mourning and chaos, according to members of the Mir community. Students flocked immediately to the beit midrash (study hall) to recite psalms, while others shuttled back and forth between the yeshiva and Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, where hundreds protested plans to conduct an autopsy on the body, a medical procedure some religious authorities say is prohibited.
"The students were very scared and everything was chaotic because of the plans to cut up the body," said a source close to one of the yeshiva's top rabbis. "It was such a great tragedy, but they wanted to add more tragedy on top of it, by completely disrespecting the family's wishes."
In the end, the family prevailed and the autopsy was canceled.
An estimated three-quarters of the student body comes from outside of Israel and many of the students returned home last week for the bein hazmanim vacation, which takes place between Tisha B'Av and Rosh Hodesh Elul.
"The yeshiva was pretty empty, but Shmuel was the kind of guy who stayed around to learn, even during bein hazmanim," another friend from the Mir, also in the Gerer community, recalled. "He took learning very seriously and wasn't the kind of guy to run out of the yeshiva just because there was vacation."
During the year, an estimated 60 to 70 classes are offered at any given time in a variety of languages, including Russian, French, Yiddish, English and Hebrew. Though many men at the Mir, like Mett, are single students in their early 20s, an estimated 2,000 married kollel students are currently enrolled in the yeshiva, many of whom commute daily using organized transport from Haredi strongholds like Ramat Beit Shemesh, Beitar Illit and Kiryat Sefer.
Class size ranges at the Mir typically ranges from 10 up to 500, but Mett, friends say, often studied with a small group of 20 other Gerer Hasidim.
"All of the people who come to the Mir come to study and be a part of the energy that is being radiated from here," said kollel student Dovid Hirschkowitz, also a British citizen and one of the few Mir students who agreed to provide his name for publication. "People who study here are very individually motivated. It's such a large place that there's very little personal attention and so each student is responsible for getting what he can from all that is offered here. The Anglo-Saxon students are especially focused, because they are often here for a more limited time."
The Mett family arrived yesterday from London for their son's funeral. The procession left in the afternoon from the Mir Yeshiva and passed through the Gerer synagogue in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Geula neighborhood, before burial in Har Hamenuchot.
תוקן על ידי - איןבעיה - 11/10/2005 17:54:44
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דא האט א בילד פונם רוצח
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| נשלח ב-11/10/2005 22:17 |
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ימ"ש
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