Aryeh Schupak,age 16 was a dual Israeli-Canadian citizen studying in Moshav Beit Meir. He was killed in a bombing at a bus stop in Jerusalem.
Aryeh’s father Rabbi Moshe Schupak told mourners in Russian-accented English, “Only one thing comes to mind, that there are things that are important and things that are not. To appreciate every minute with the child and with the family.”
Schupak had been making his way to Yeshivat Harei Yehuda in Moshav Beit Meir, when a device planted at a bus stop near the western entrance to Jerusalem exploded, killing him. Another 22 people were injured in the bombing, and by another blast at a bus stop near Ramot a short time later, including a friend of Schupak’s who had been traveling with him to school.
Rabbi Naftali Schreiber, head of the yeshiva where Schupak studied, said the teen had considered staying home Wednesday after feeling unwell in the morning.
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