ISRAELI FATHER DID NOT LEARN OF THE TERRORIST KILLING OF HIS TWO SONS UNTIL HE CAME OUT OF A COMA THREE WEEKS LATER

A Scene of Indescribable Pain

Mourning Israeli father can barely get through traditional prayers amidst a sea of tears.

 

JNS 

March 14, 2023 

 Family and friends lay to rest Yaakov and Asher Paley, brothers aged 5 and 7, after the February 10 Jerusalem car ramming attack. The boys' father would only learn of their deaths three weeks later after emerging from a coma.

 

The injured father of two sons killed in a terrorist car-ramming in Jerusalem last month left the hospital on Monday for the first time since the attack, and immediately visited the graves of his children.

Avraham Paley visited the resting place of his sons Yaakov Yisrael, 5, and Asher Menachem, 7, who were killed when a terrorist rammed his car into a crowd at a bus stop in the Ramot neighborhood of the Israeli capital on Feb. 10.

Paley, 42, was seriously injured in the attack and only learned of the death of his sons when he regained consciousness nearly three weeks later.

 

Avraham Paley (in wheelchair) went straight from the hospital to visit the resting place of his sons Yaakov Yisrael, 5, and Asher Menachem, 7

 

He went straight to the Har Hamenuhot cemetery in Jerusalem on Monday after leaving Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, arriving via ambulance and using a wheelchair. Video taken at the gravesites shows Paley weeping while seemingly attempting to recite the traditional Jewish mourner’s prayer.

Before being discharged, Paley thanked the staff who took care of him “with devotion from the moment I arrived at Hadassah, both in the intensive care unit and the surgical department.

“I thank everyone for accompanying me during these difficult moments,” he said.

 

   

The scene of the terrorist attack in which Hussein Karaka, an Israeli Arab, drove a car into people at the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, Feb. 10, 2023

Hussein Karaka is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

 

Twenty-year-old Alter Shlomo Lederman was also killed in the Feb. 10 attack committed by Hussein Karaka, 31, an Arab Israeli resident of the Issawiya neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem.