Moshe Galinsky z”l, a 7-year-old boy from Modiin Illit, was killed Thursday after being struck by a bus while returning from cheder in the city’s Brachfeld neighborhood.

The crash happened at about 12:04 p.m. on Rabbi Akiva Street, near Abaye V’Rava. Hebrew media reported that the cheder had ended early because of the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz, and eyewitnesses said the child was crossing at a crosswalk when he was hit.

MDA medics who arrived at the scene found him with multi-system trauma and were forced to pronounce him dead. Senior MDA medics Yedidya Chachmon and Moshe Kuperman said, “We saw the child unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing, with very severe injuries to his body after he was hit by a bus. We carried out medical checks, but sadly his injuries were significant and we had no choice but to pronounce him dead.”

Police opened an investigation into the circumstances of the crash. ZAKA volunteers from the Modiin Illit team also worked at the scene to preserve kavod hameis and collect findings, allowing the child’s body to be released for burial.

Moshe, known as Moishy, was a third-grade student at the Breslov Talmud Torah in Modiin Illit. He was the son of R’ Aharon Galinsky and the great-grandson of the well-known maggid Rav Yaakov Galinsky zt”l. According to B’Chadrei Charedim, his class had visited Kever Rachel the day before for a Chumash Bereishis siyum, which had been scheduled for Thursday before the tragedy.