HY’D: Six Dead, 20 Injured In Ramot Junction Terror Attack

A terrible scene at Ramot Junction Monday morning after two terrorists targeted a bus stop, killing six and wounding twenty others. The six murdered were all Charedim.

The terrorists opened fire at a Line 62 bus which was standing in a traffic jam, and at a hitchhiking stop full of people. Seven people were evacuated to hospitals for medical treatment, among them one person in critical condition and four people in serious condition.

According to eyewitnesses, the terrorists boarded the bus and began shooting at the passengers’ heads from close range, using automatic weapons. An unconfirmed report said the terrorists boarded disguised as inspectors.

The Kol Torah Yeshiva in Jerusalem announced early Monday afternoon that yeshiva employee and maintenance man Levi Yitzhak Pash was one of those killed in a Ramot Junction terror attack.

Yaakov Pinto, 25, is a newlywed who immigrated from Spain.

Yisrael Matsner, 28, lived in Jerusalem.

Yosef David, 43 years old from the Ramot neighborhood, was murdered on his way to yeshiva, with his holy books still in his hands.

Dr. Mordechai Steintzag, also known as “Dr. Mark,” 79 years old and also a resident of Ramot, owned “Dr. Mark’s Bakery” in Beit Shemesh; he immigrated to Israel from the US decades ago.

Sarah Mendelson, 60 years old from the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem, was also murdered in the attack.

The two terrorists who carried out a deadly shooting attack Monday morning at the Ramot Junction in Jerusalem were neutralized by a haredi yeshiva student and a squad commander in the IDF’s haredi Hashmonaim Brigade.

The yeshiva student’s brother-in-law told Kol Barama Radio: “My brother-in-law was on his way to the yeshiva, he has a gun he inherited from his grandfather, and he received the license thanks to [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben Gvir’s reform. He emptied the entire magazine on the terrorists. Eyewitnesses claim that the driver was a partner in the attack.”