The Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Rebbe Shlita and the Volover Rebbe Shlita arrived in Eretz Yisrael at about 5:00PM on Sunday from JFK airport. On a flight from Newark Airport were members of the Chroman family, grandparents and others.
According to Chaim Weingarten, head of the Zaka team in Mumbai, local authorities have given their release for the bodies to be flown to Israel for burial and they are now waiting for a plane scheduled to take off from Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday evening. He said the flight is about 10 hours and then, there will be a brief ceremony for the locals who are shattered over the murders of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka.
Weingarten:
There are five bodies, four Israelis and one Mexican Jew. At present, four Israelis are still listed as missing, stating it is entirely possible they are backpacking somewhere.
Weingarten:
The Zaka team broke up into teams on Sunday, with two volunteers maintaining shmira for the bodies. Other visited hospitals seeking people who may be the missing Israelis. There are 3 or 4 bodies of "westerners? who may be the Israelis. A final determination will be forthcoming on Monday when the Israeli forensic team arrives.
When asked if the funeral will be on Monday or Tuesday, Weingarten stated it is still too early to say for certain, at least until the plane arrives from Israel.
Kol Chareidi reports the Eida Chareidis will not permit the state to run the funeral of Rav Aryeh Leibish Teitlebaum. An Eida spokesman, Chaim Oppenheim, told the Kol Chareidi that "all of a sudden, the medina feels it is involved in the funeral. Rav Leibish was born, bred and lived as a Satmar and there is no nechama for his neshama to permit the medina to become involved in his funeral.? Rav Oppenheim was careful to point out that his statements reflect reality, but in no way is he delivering an official statement for the Eida Chareidit.
"He was murdered because he was a Jew without any connection to the medina.? When asked if he knows if the Eida officially informed the state that it does not wish any official State of Israel involvement, he stated "for certain officials were told their official involvement is unwanted but anyone is invited to stand at the side and take part in the levaya.?
(Yechiel Spira - YWN Israel)
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