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Pictured: Bar mitzvah boy killed in tragic Belgian crash while twin brother survived

The boy’s three siblings and parents all sustained non-fatal injuries

January 9, 2025 14:04
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Daniel Rubin, circled, was killed two weeks before his bar mitzvah in a tragic crash in Belgium
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A “kind and caring” 12-year-old pupil at Menorah Grammar School in Edgware has been tragically killed in a car crash on a Belgian motorway two weeks before he was due to celebrate his bar mitzvah with his twin brother, who survived.

Daniel Rubin’s parents and three siblings all sustained injuries, one of them seriously, in the crash but their lives are not in danger.

The fatal incident occurred on the E40 in Veurne, West Flanders, at around 1am last Thursday when family were returning from a simchah in Antwerp. 

The car turned over and came to rest on its roof, according to pictures of the accident published by Belgian media. The boy was thrown from the vehicle and sadly lost his life a the scene, the reports said.