A heartbreaking tragedy unfolded in Beit Shemesh on Thursday when five-year-old Shmuel Shachori z”l was struck and killed by a vehicle while walking to cheder. The young boy, part of the Gerer community there, died after extensive efforts to save his life.

The accident took place on Rechov Chazon Ish as he was on his way to his cheder. Emergency personnel transported him to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, where doctors continued resuscitation attempts that had begun at the scene. Despite their efforts, he was pronounced dead.

The levayah was held at Shamgar Funeral Home, proceeding to Har HaZeisim.

Shmuel was born on the 10th of Teves, 5781, to his father, Rabbi Yisroel Shachori, a respected mechanech in the Gur community who serves as a mashgiach in the Gur yeshiva, and to his mother, Sheina Malka, of the Arara family from the Ramot neighborhood of Yerushalayim.

He was a talmid at the Beis Yisroel chederof the Gur community, located on Rechov Ohr Sameach in Beit Shemesh.

Chanoch Dranger, chairman of Agudas Yisroel in Beit Shemesh and the city’s deputy mayor, expressed the community’s shock and sorrow: “The Gur chassidic community in Beit Shemesh is stunned and shaken by the tragic passing, at such a young age, of the dear child Shmuel, of blessed memory, son of Rabbi Yisroel Shachori, one of the city’s distinguished educators, who passed away this morning on his way to school. In these difficult hours, the community sends its condolences to the entire family, with a prayer to Hashem that we should no longer hear of devastation and tragedy within our borders, and that from now on we should receive only good news.”

{Matzav.com}