Achinoam Greenfeld (right), and her brother Nevo (left).
Two Israeli children killed in accident in Georgia
Achinoam and Nevo Geenfeld, 10 and 5 years old, respectively, were killed when their family’s SUV flipped onto the side of the road. Their mother was seriously wounded in the accident. Their father was moderately hurt, and their two siblings lightly injured.
In a tragic accident that occurred shortly before Yom Kippur, an Israeli family traveling to the former soviet state of Georgia lost two of its children in a car accident. Achinoam Greenfeld, 10, and her brother Nevo, 5, were killed when the SUV in which their family was riding flipped and fell into a ditch by the side of the road. Their mother , Noa, was seriously wounded in the accident, with their father Hanoch, was moderately hurt. Their siblings, Yiftah and Ivri, were lightly injured.
The four surviving family members were taken to Israel on Wednesday via a special ambulance-plane, which was the only plane to land in Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday. The accident in which the two children died was, according to Georgian authorities, apparently caused by poor road visibility. The two children’s caskets will be flown to Israel for burial on Thursday.
The Greenfeld family.
The Grinfelds are residents of the West Bank town of Ma'ale Mikhmas. Achinoam was named after her uncle, who was killed in the Second Lebanon war.
Hanoch Greenfeld issued a statement from the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, where his children are being treated, in which he expressed his gratitude towards those who assisted his family. “The people in Israel and in Georgia, Israelis who appeared everywhere, in every move. The rescue crew, the improvised command center that was established in Israel and to anyone who helped open the airport for our flight, the trauma team at the Hadassah hospital who waited her for us en masse and is taking care of us.”
Roi Yanovsky, Itay Blumental, Elisha Ben Kimon, and Yael Freidson contributed to this report.
