TIMES OF ISRAEL
‘Rina saved us all, she absorbed it all’: Dad recalls blast that killed daughter
by Staff
August 23, 2019

“I wanted to believe it was just a dream,” said Rabbi Eitan Shnerb on Friday, recounting the deadly explosion that killed his daughter Rina and wounded him and his son Dvir as they were hiking down to a popular West Bank spring. “We started going down toward the spring, [and] as we came close to the spring there was a roadside bomb. I have experienced several bombs in my life and been saved, thank God, but this one got us,” Shnerb told reporters from his hospital bed…Shnerb spoke hours after his daughter was buried in their hometown of Lod. He was unable to attend the funeral because of his wounds. READ MORE

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