The ceremony was also live-streamed to allow friends and family overseas to participate.
Donny Morris, 19, of New Jersey, one of 45 people killed in the crush on Mount Meron during Lag B’Omer celebrations. (Courtesy)
Almost 70,000 people watched online.
“I have so many questions but little to no answers,” sobbed his mother Mirlana Morris, calling his death “a pain more than a mother can bear.”
“But what I do know for sure is that you were loved by so many,” she said.
“We all always knew how wonderful you were, but in the last 72 hours countless people reached out to me to say how you touched so many lives with your kindness and love,” she said.
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Morris was buried on the Mount of Olives, a cemetery which overlooks Jerusalem s Old City, according to The Times of Israel. (Getty Images)
JERUSALEM A funeral service and ceremony were held for Donny Morris, the Bergen County resident who died during a crush at Israel s Mount Meron, over the weekend. By now, tens of thousands of people have watched his mother, Mirlana Morris, eulogize her son thousands of miles away from her Bergen County home.
Morris, of Bergenfield, stepped to a microphone in Israel over the weekend to share insights about her son, Donny, who is one of 45 people who died during the stampede last week when thousands gathered to celebrate Lag B Omer.
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A funeral held Sunday for Donny Morris, the 18-year-old Bergenfield man killed during a deadly religious event in Israel, drew tens of thousands of viewers still reeling from the Middle Eastern tragedy last week.
In a nighttime ceremony live-streamed from Israel, speakers paid homage to Morris in a mix of Hebrew and English, remembering the Bergenfield teen as an angelic, pure soul who dedicated his last days to studying his faith abroad. A sea of students, rabbis and other holy leaders were seen gathered before the Yeshivat Shaalvim, the Jewish boys school in Israel where Morris spent his final months.