By: Rabbi Zwiebel

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After months of heartbreaking stories of ‘COVID tragedies’ in the last year, a story came out today which shocked and moved even the most desensitized. Osnat Benshitrit was a 31-year-old mother of 4, from Givat Shmuel. When she tested positive for COVID last week, the family was not particularly worried, as she was young and completely healthy. That made it all the more shocking when her condition rapidly deteriorated and she was rushed to the hospital, where doctors found her to be suffering multiple organ failure.
Osnat passed away, leaving her community in a state of utter shock.

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Hello, my name is Eliyahu and I live in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Boruch Hashem I have been blessed with an amazing wife, and six wonderful children. For a long time we were a normal happy family, and things were going really well. But then Covid hit, and my parnossah was destroyed. Things became so tight.
 
Now, Hashem is testing me like never before: My wonderful wife Elisheva has been diagnosed with cancer.
 
It’s hard to describe the pain. And then, there are Elisheva’s expensive medical bills. If I don’t pay them soon, she will simply not make it G-d forbid. But if I do pay them, I won’t have enough to pay for rent, or food. 
 

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With thousands of seminary students in Israel under lockdown, educating them on their future degree options is more difficult than ever.

“Students need this information, and they need it now,” explains Mrs. Batsheva Shonek, director of Sara Schenirer. “Many of them will be looking for jobs for next year when they return home for Pesach, and a lot depends on which degree program they will join. Under normal circumstances, we would travel to Israel to host open houses and visit seminaries, but this year, that has proven impossible.”

Students. however, are not the only ones reaching out for help. Parents are also making phone calls, sending emails, and chatting with advisors, seeking to understand their daughters’ options.

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