The second story is related to their program to help the elderly. Yael delivered a blanket to a Holocaust survivor who couldn’t afford her medications.
She said the blanket was keeping her warm and saving her life and preventing the woman from having her asthma attacks.
Yael left the home, gave the woman her contact information and a week later found out that the woman died of an asthma attack.
That story gave Yael an insight into the Jewish saying, ‘If not now when? If I don’t do it who will do it?’
“I realized that there are so many Holocaust survivors in need of this very basic need of emergency communication assistance.”
In response to this loss the Fellowship started a hotline for Holocaust survivors.
They have 10,000 Holocaust survivors connected to an emergency notification network call center that during any type of emergency, if they need a doctor or an ambulance, they simply press the button and they are connected to the Fellowship call center which sends them a free ambulance.
To end the interview we asked someone who is very passionate about Israel, what it means to be part of the nation and people.
“It is the biggest honor, the dream of our forefathers, the prayer of two thousand years for the Jewish people to come to the Holy Land. It is the vision of the prophets, I feel like luckier than Moses because I can be in the land.”
"I feel like luckier than Moses because I can be in the land.”
Yael Eckstein of IFCJ
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