Tragedy: 41-year-old drowned in a mikveh in the Mea Shearim neighborhood, was pulled out of the water - and died

October 7, 2022   

Tragedy in Mea Shearim: Rabbi Baruch Stern, 41, drowned today (Friday) in a mikveh in a Haredi neighborhood. People who were in the mikveh pulled him out of the water and called for rescue. After the rescue forces' resuscitation efforts were completed, the medical team unfortunately had no choice but to pronounce him dead. The deceased is the son of Rabbi Yaakov Leib Stern, 69, and the grandson of Rabbi Yosef Stern, 69. Yechiel Stern, an emergency medical technician for United Hatzalah: "Citizens pulled him out of the mikveh pool. I performed advanced and prolonged resuscitation efforts with the assistance of additional volunteers from the United Hatzalah motorcycle unit and other volunteers who live nearby - in an attempt to save his life. Unfortunately, he was pronounced dead at the end of the resuscitation efforts." The police said that "the Israel Police recently began investigating the circumstances of the drowning of a 50-year-old man in a Mikveh Tahara in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. After the resuscitation efforts of medical teams, he was pronounced dead. Police investigators at the scene collected findings from which no criminal suspicion arose." His funeral will leave at 3:45 PM from the Shamgar Funeral Home in Har Hamenuchot, where he will be buried.