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(IsraelNN.com) Three victims of the fatal crash near Mitzpe Yericho were buried overnight on Sunday.  Ahiya Huri, 13, and brothers Shlomo Kreuser, 24, and Yishai Kreuser, 13, were buried in Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem.

A fourth victim of the crash, Eitan Orenbach, will be buried at 3 p.m. on Monday.  A fifth passenger in the car, a friend of the three teenagers who were killed, was badly wounded in the crash and is hospitalized in Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem.  His name for prayers: Yehoshua Shlomo Peretz ben (son of) Ayalah.

The four crash victims were killed on Sunday when their truck overturned due to the rain and hit an oncoming bus.  A young Bedouin girl and a 60-year-old woman were also killed in car accidents on Sunday, bringing the total number of fatalities so far in 2007 to approximately what it was in November of 2006 despite police reports of a significant reduction in the number of traffic fatalities this year.