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Respect for the Dead: Yeshiva Students Refuse to Sell Footage of Plane Crash
R. Waxman 15/09/2009 07:30
Students at the yeshiva high school in Ma'aleh Chever, a small community in southern Judea, filmed Asaf Ramon's burning plane, and the arrival of rescue teams at the site, just over a kilometer away from the yeshiva.
When word got out that the yeshiva students had filmed activity at the crash site, they were offered thousands of shekels by various news sites to purchase the footage. However, after Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Amichai Chazan explained to his students that selling the footage would be disrespectful to the deceased pilot, Asaf Ramon, a"h, and his family, the boys turned the footage over to the army, hoping it might help with the investigation of the crash. An evening of Torah study was dedicated at the yeshiva in memory of Assaf ben Ilan and Rona Ramon. (Arutz 7)
When word got out that the yeshiva students had filmed activity at the crash site, they were offered thousands of shekels by various news sites to purchase the footage. However, after Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Amichai Chazan explained to his students that selling the footage would be disrespectful to the deceased pilot, Asaf Ramon, a"h, and his family, the boys turned the footage over to the army, hoping it might help with the investigation of the crash. An evening of Torah study was dedicated at the yeshiva in memory of Assaf ben Ilan and Rona Ramon. (Arutz 7)