A little over five years after his wife, son, and five members of their family perished in a horrific train accident, David Zvi (Docsi) Gottstein and his photographer wife Rina Klein embraced each other last night.
Duci Gottstein, a survivor of the minibus disaster, married photographer Rina Klein a year and a half ago in a moving wedding at Hadar Dimol, attended by family members and hundreds of friends.
The accident, which occurred in 2010, was considered one of the worst accidents in Israel.
The family's car stopped on the train tracks in the Beit Jobrin area, near Kibbutz Gat, after the driver failed to notice the warning signals. The train, which was coming from the south, did not have time to brake and collided directly with the minibus.
The disaster killed Duczi's former father-in-law, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Bernstein and his wife Rivka, residents of the city of Beitar Ilit, and their children - Yohanan, Hana Hania and Mordechai Aharon, and their daughter - Duczi's wife - Miriam, and their little son Moti, aged two.