Overview
- A second-floor residential balcony fell onto a ground-floor restaurant on Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael Street in the Rehavia/Shaarei Chesed area, causing major structural damage to the three-story building.
- Emergency crews from Israel Fire and Rescue, Magen David Adom, United Hatzalah, police and volunteer groups conducted extrication and search-and-rescue operations at the scene.
- Responders pronounced an approximately 80-year-old man dead after extracting him from the rubble and treated three other people for minor injuries who were evacuated to hospital.
- Jerusalem police secured the area and closed surrounding roads while ZAKA handled the deceased with dignity and United Hatzalah provided on-scene medical and emotional support to victims.
- The city’s dangerous-structures unit and the municipal city engineer are evaluating stability to decide on safety measures and possible further evacuations or repairs, and authorities say searches will continue until the site is cleared.