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NEWS
Chessed Organizations Aid Sderot Residents
By Yechiel Sever
For three weeks Sderot residents plagued by Kassam rocket
attacks have been in a state of complete helplessness, both
in terms of their personal safety and their mental and
financial state. Various chessed organizations are
working to meet the needs of those who remain in the city and
for whatever reason have nowhere else to stay, as well as
residents who fled with just the clothes on their back.
Bikur Ve'ezras Cholim, a Belz organization headed by Rav
Chaim Mordechai Fried, distributed to many residents —
including many who couldn't squeeze their way onto the
evacuation buses — cold drinks, warm and cold meals and
snacks for children. City residents are still ridden with
anxiety, but the volunteers tried to help at least by putting
the children at ease and helping to provide them with
food.
Some of the volunteers even rode on the evacuation buses or
in the organization's vehicles and met Sderot residents upon
arrival at their respective destinations with a pleasant
surprise: individual food baskets.
United (Ichud) Hatzoloh also went to Sderot during these
harrowing days. Numerous Magen David Adom and Ichud Hatzoloh
medics arrived from Tzfas and the Galilee to assist the
emergency and rescue teams in the city, staying in Sderot 24
hours a day.
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