Tragedy: body of missing choir conductor - found • Video

Last night, Friday night, the body of Cantor and conductor Yisrael Munk z"l was found under the bridge of Achbara on Route 85 in the North. ZAKA volunteers and Northern Police were called, and the body was taken to Abu Kabir morgue for identification.

This morning family members of the missing Yisrael Munk z"l, graduate of Mir Yeshiva, came to identify him. The deceased left his home in Makor Baruch neighborhood of Jerusalem on Sunday night, and disappeared since then.

As mentioned, tonight he was spotted at the Achbara Bridge, not far from Tzfat.

More than a thousand ZAKA volunteers, friends, family members and yeshiva students were searching for him, since his absence, in the Jerusalem area, the center and the north of Israel.

Masses of friends and acquaintances of Yisrael z"l gathered after midnight on Thursday at the funeral home Shamgar in Jerusalem to escort him on his last path. They refused and find it impossible to digest that Yisrael was no longer with them. Friends and acquaintances all choose the same phrases to describe him: "Gold, quiet, smiling, a rare kindness, good Middos and gentleness," and of course "a talented young man who made an effort and got to where he is only in his own right."

Yisrael, 26, was born in Jerusalem to his father the Chazan Harav Binyamin Munk – the Chazan of Yeshurun synagogue.

When young, he studied at Yeshivat Radin in Netanya and was a beloved student of Rosh Yeshiva Hagaon Harav Menachem Dan Meizlish. After graduating Radin, he moved to the Mir Yeshiva in Beth Israel, Jerusalem, where he continued to study.
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Two years ago he married his wife Miriam nee Aberbuch from Givat Shaul, Jerusalem. They set up their modest home in the neighborhood of Nachlaot in the capital, where he continued his studies at the Kollel in the neighborhood.

Nine months ago, they had their first child, Tamar.

He continued the tradition of his father as Chazan as a member of the choir at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, conducted by Elli Jaffe.

Six months ago, he established the ideal of his life: The Triola Choir. Among other things, he taught music notes. "He was in his full bloom and a consolidation period in his life, in music and chazonus. Recently he produced a disc for the chazan R' Moshe Stern", his acquaintances relate.

Two and a half ago he moved to David Yellin Street in Makor Baruch neighborhood, from which he left last Sunday and did not return.

"We don't believe, we don't believe!" friends say over and over again, "we have to do some soul-searching."

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