Monday December 10 1:26 AM EST

Rabbi Meizlish's daughter dies in car accident

By ZURACH WEISS, HasidicNews.com Writer

BAT YAM, ISRAEL (HN) - The daughter of the Rav in Kiryat Bobov in Bat Yam died in a tragic car accident last week while returning from a family celebration in Miron.

The family was visiting Miron to celebrate their three year old son's "upsheren" (inauguration to the Jewish educational system) at the tomb of Reb Shimon Bar Yochei, as customary in Israel. For their way back they took a taxi, who reportedly had been summoned for reckless driving and penalized prior to this incident. He took the curves at the hill too fast. and lost control of the vehicle. The Rabbi's 10 year old daughter was hurled out of the car during impact and died immediately.

Rabbi Meizlish is the Rav in Kiryat Bobov in Bat Yam. He leads the Bobov community there and is very cherished in his close-knit community there and abroad. He is the son-in-law of the previous Bobov Rebbe Reb Shlomo Halberstam who lead the Bobov sect after WWII from his headquarters in Borough Park, Brooklyn and passed away just last year in Brooklyn, NY.