Perm, Russia – A Chevra Kasdisha representative left Moscow with Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar on Sunday to the site of a plane crash which left 88 people dead, including a Jewish family of four.
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The parents and their two children were residents of Perm, where the aircraft went down.
Sources name one of the Jewish families aboard the doomed flight, as Ephraim Nakhumov, 35, his wife Golda, 24, and their two children, Eliyohu, aged 7, and Chava, aged four.
The Boeing-737 traveling from Moscow to Perm went down around 3:40 a.m. (2340 GMT) Sunday.
The Nachumov family members were part of Perm’s Jewish community. They moved to the city from Azerbaijan several years ago. The four were making their way back home after visiting relatives in Azerbaijan.
“The Nachumov family was a member of our congregation,” Rabbi Zalman Deutch, the chief rabbi of Perm, told Ynet. “Only several months ago I visited their home along with my wife, and their son Eliyahu was slated to begin the first grade at the Jewish school. This is a great tragedy and we are all in shock.”
Sunday’s crash was the second involving a Boeing 737 in the former Soviet Union in the past month. A Boeing flying from the Central Asian nation of Kyrgystan to Iran crashed shortly after takeoff on Aug. 24, killing 56 people
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