Rabbi Dan Mertzbach z"l

The driver who was killed on Friday morning at a makeshift roadblock on Route 60 was Rabbi Dan Mertzbach z"l (of blessed memory) from Otniel. He was on his way to sunrise services at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Hundreds attended his funeral on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Mertzbach was traveling to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron for morning prayers when a member of an IDF