Leah was a respected and sought-after kindergarten teacher who ran a private kindergarten in her home. “She was like a daughter to me,” says her mother-in-law, Judith Kirschenbaum. “She was a lovely mother and a very special teacher. She raised her children in the garden like flowers. An exemplary mother and teacher, she gave her heart to everyone. To this day the children leave us messages on the phone, ask when she comes back and say ‘good luck in heaven’.”
A week before Leah fell ill, she celebrated her 43rd birthday. “She was very careful, if she could get vaccinated she would do it, but it was still not possible in terms of her age,” says Yehudit. Eli also says that the virus caught them by surprise. “We were very careful. Leah was afraid to open the garden, and it turns out she was right.”
At first it seemed that Leah was overcoming the virus. “They thought she would be released because the indices seemed to be going down,” he says, “but then the virus got stronger and she died.”
At the funeral he told me about his wife: “She was a great woman from life – everything she touched turned to gold. This week I met a woman who said her daughter to this day ‘wants to go to Leah’s kindergarten’. She loved children so much. Immediately after the funeral I told our sons we should “To deal, not to break, but obviously it’s hard. You hear about Corona, that people die, but everyone says mine it will not happen.”
“I do not know how I will manage, I do not know how I will feed the children”
“I had an unencouraging diagnosis during pregnancy, I had to get the last vaccine to treat cervical cancer after giving birth,” she says, “We then wanted to go together to get vaccinated against Corona. He did not want to go without me, had to wait two weeks – because it is not allowed to do “Double vaccinations. We did not deliver, we simply did not deliver.”
She adds that “during pregnancy I had to undergo my treatments. Despite the risk, we managed to keep the child. A year ago I received the frightening diagnosis – one stage before cervical cancer. I started treatments and had the pre-cancerous part removed. We waited the required two weeks after. The birth and the vaccine, and then the story happened with the corona. “
“Was healthy and never complained”
The symptoms appeared in Lena, but over time her condition improved. On the other hand, Roman suddenly got short of breath. “I ordered an ambulance for him,” says Lena, “he received oxygen and went to the hospital at 12:00, about three hours after he died. The doctors said he underwent all the tests, managed on his own, without oxygen, everything was fine, and then his heart “Roman was perfectly healthy and never complained. Because there is no post-mortem autopsy of corona, we received three diagnoses: corona, heart, lack of oxygen.”
Now, the family is in a difficult situation. At the age of 37, Lena remains a widow and raises three children – 15-year-old Georgi, 12-year-old Diana and newborn Daniel.
“We did not manage to buy a house, we lost everything,” Lena concludes, “I do not know how I will manage, I do not know how to feed them. We always worked, we were happy with the little that was, we did not need help. I have not yet recovered from birth, the five-week-old boy. Everything happened Instantly”.
Ilya Yagurov
“It’s heartbreaking to lose a child like that”
The late Ryan Kablan, Beit Jann | 31 years old at his death
For half of his so short life, Ryan Kablan, 31, of Beit Jann, has been dealing with the heavy mourning that befell his father’s death in a 2006 tractor accident. Ryan was the only eldest son in the Kablan family and after him five sisters were born. He was born with severe juvenile diabetes but cooperated with the treatments – and led a completely routine lifestyle. But his father’s death led to a severe deterioration in his health and more than once his life was in danger.
“As Dad died he underestimated his health, which deteriorated. He went blind, underwent six foot surgeries and suffered a stroke,” says his sister Diana Kablan. “On one occasion he was hospitalized for half a year in a hospital when he was anesthetized and resuscitated. When he recovered, the doctors did not believe it. They defined him as a medical conference.”
It is not clear how he became infected, but the family estimates that it happened when their grandmother visited their home without knowing that she herself was infected with the virus. “My sister was also in a very difficult situation, but she overcame, and then I took my mother to visit him,” Diana adds. “When we got to the hospital we were told they were doing CPR on someone, but only later did we find out it was him.”
“Everyone was connected to him,” says his uncle Bian Kablan, who was also head of the Beit Jann local council. “It’s very hard to lose a child like that. It breaks the heart, but that’s how fate determined it.”
Adi Hashmonai
“After he opened his eyes and recognized those around him, there was a deterioration”
Yaakov Uriel Atias, a resident of Beit Shemesh who did not suffer from background illnesses, contracted corona and passed away last month when he was only 42 years old.
Atias, who was a beloved, pleasant-mannered and hospitable man, left behind three orphaned daughters and also his widow Yocheved, who is in the first months of her pregnancy. Nehama Atias Sharbani, Yaakov’s sister, told with deep sadness about her older brother who died of the deadly virus, and came out calling on the public to hurry up and get vaccinated. “This is a very hard tragedy, a great loss,” Nehama said, “Gd gives us severe blows and takes us the best people for us to wake up, take His gift, be chosen alive and go get vaccinated.”
She said, “My brother Jacob was a sturdy, tall, healthy man, with no background illnesses. He was very careful of Corona, but infected with his wife. She passed the corona without any problem to her and the fetus. Jacob cared for his wife, infected Corona, and began to weaken him. The girls worried. He was treated and treated. He lost his sense of smell and taste as well as his appetite and was apathetic. “On Saturday, his condition deteriorated and he died of a blood clot and cardiac arrest as a result of the corona.”
“For the upliftment of his soul, get vaccinated today”
Nehama describes her dear brother, who left a huge void when he left: “Yaakov was a lover of peace, a lover of people from all walks of life, kind, a great scholar. “My brother Yaakov, go save your lives and the lives of your loved ones. Go get vaccinated today.”
Yuri Yalon