Name Released: Yeshiva Bochur Yosef Eisental z”l Killed After Being Struck by Bus at Yerushalayim Protest

The name of the victim killed in the fatal bus-ramming incident during a protest against the draft law in Yerushalayim has been cleared for publication. He has been identified as Yosef Eisental z”l, a 14-year-old yeshiva bochurim from the Ramot neighborhood of Yerushalayim.

Yosef was a talmid in Shiur Beis at the Yeshiva L’tzeirim Ohel Torah–Ponevezh.

According to eyewitness accounts, shortly before the demonstration concluded, a group of bochurim became caught in a chaotic confrontation around a bus that had entered the protest area. Questions were raised at the scene as to how buses were permitted access to the vicinity during the demonstration.

The bus driver reportedly drove recklessly through the area, striking Yosef and causing fatal injuries.

Another bochur who had been clinging to the bus miraculously escaped without serious harm.

Levayah arrangements are being finalized.

Yosef was a son of Rav Shmuel Eisental, a R”M at Ohel Torah–Ponevezh, and a grandson of Rav Uriel Eisental, the rov of Yerushalayim’s Ramot Gimmel neighborhood.

{Matzav.com}