A brother and sister from Ashdod – Heli Itach and her brother Itzik, moved the chain recently, after returning NIS 40,000 to an elderly woman who forgot a bag in Heli’s car.
It all started when Heli noticed an elderly woman and her son, who had returned from the market in Jerusalem together with a heavy shopping cart and bags in their hands.
Itach, who volunteers with her brother in a variety of community activities, immediately offered to take them home. The elderly woman thanked Itach for her kindness, and she and her son got in the car.
According to Itach, she dropped them off near the woman’s house, and continued to drive – when she was really unaware of the fact that a bag belonging to an old woman, containing NIS 40,000, had been forgotten in the back bench.
Whoever discovered this was her brother Itzik, who drove with her in the car the next day and discovered the case ‘by chance’, while sitting in the back seat. “I only opened it with curiosity, because it didn’t seem familiar to me,” Itzik repeated. When he saw that the bag contained tens of thousands of shekels in cash and a checkbook – he told Heli about it, but she was sure he was joking.
Only when she turned her head and saw the bag – she realized that it belonged to the elderly woman, and began to travel to the place where the elderly woman and her son were taken down. The elderly woman, Rachel by name, could not believe that she had actually received the case, back. “I saved all this money for my son in France,” she said in tears of excitement, as reported by Mako. “You are angels. I did not know where I put the bag, I thought the money went. I want to give you a thousand shekels and make you couscous.”
Heli and Itzik rejected the offer to receive a thousand shekels from Rachel, and told her only that this was the education they received at home, and that they were happy that they could help and return the money. “Her happiness was worth everything,” Itzik said. “They say giving is more than receiving, and that’s true.”