Berta Schwartz of Philadelphia killed in deadly train crash

An American lady has been identified as one of a victims of Sunday night’s lethal train pile-up nearby Ben Gurion International Airport.

Seventy-one-year-old Berta Schwartz, who was travelling with her husband, Baruch, was killed when a Egged line 947 train they were roving on crashed into a train stop on Route 40 Sunday night.

According to a news by Yediot Aharonot Tuesday, a integrate were visiting Israel for a initial time in 9 years, and were awaiting a birth of their 18th grandchild soon.

Baruch and Berta Schwartz distinguished their 41st marriage anniversary final Thursday.

That same day, Berta insisted on essay out her will.

On Sunday, a integrate gathering from Petah Tikva, where they were renting an apartment, to a Western Wall in Jerusalem.

“Because she pronounced she had to be during a Western Wall,” pronounced Baruch.

“She took a container of dollars with her and handed them out there to everyone, she was so happy to be during a Western Wall. Afterwards we went to eat in a Jewish Quarter, and she was really happy.”

When a train a integrate were roving on Sunday night strayed out of a line and crashed into a train stop, Baruch was sitting in a quarrel behind Berta, and survived a crash.

“For some-more than half an hour we was yelling: ‘Where is she? Where is she?’ She was underneath a petrify [of a train stop]. we remember going out and cheering ‘Get a firefighters, my mother is underneath a concrete’.”

Berta Schwartz is survived by her husband, Baruch, her dual daughters and one son, and seventeen grandchildren, with an 18th approaching to be innate in a subsequent dual weeks.

Two other victims killed in a pile-up have been identified as Hailey Varenberg, a proprietor of Jerusalem, and 79-year-old Yosef Kahalani, a proprietor of a executive Israeli city of Petah Tikva.

A fourth victim’s temperament has nonetheless to be privileged for publication.

Fourteen others were harmed in a crash, including a driver, 44-year-old Haifa proprietor Alexander Leibman.

Leibman was arrested on guess of inattentive driving.