Israelis ended Simhat Torah, a Joyous holiday, on a somber note today as they counted six killed and 47 injured in a series of traffic accidents since Friday. The dead included Meir Harnik, 40, composer of popular songs and a musician with the Israel Broadcasting Service. Another traffic fatality was Satiya Yashashvili, a recent immigrant from Soviet Georgia.
Elizer Marchinsky of Natanya, the father of football player Avraham Marchinsky of the Kfar Saba Hapoel team, was killed by a car while standing on the shoulder of a road in Kfar Saba yesterday. A 3 1/2-year-old girl, Assem Oudi of Kfar Iblin in Western Galilee, was killed by a pick-up truck that had a brake failure and plowed into a group of women and children walking on a road near the village. Four other persons were injured and hospitalized.
A seven-year-old boy, Haled Rassni Muhajeni, was run over and killed by a pick-up truck at Ummel Fahm village where he lived. Moshe Muata, 17, of Moshav Shalva in the Lachish region, died yesterday in the Negev Central Hospital in Beersheva of injuries suffered when he was hit by a truck while walking with friends on a road.
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