Every day for the past two weeks, Hamas terrorists have been sending tens of rockets into Israel. On Tuesday, the delegation of shluchim from USA, Canada and Australia were shown the damage the rockets caused.
By Anash.org reporter
Every day for the past two weeks, Hamas terrorists have been sending tens of rockets into Israel. On Tuesday, the delegation of shluchim from USA, Canada and Australia were shown the damage the rockets caused.
The shluchim visited Ashkelon, where they were welcomed by local shliach Rabbi Menachem M. Lieberman. He showed them the school run by Chabad of Ashkelon that suffered a direct hit from a missile fired by Hamas ym”s. Before leaving, the shluchim gave Rabbi Lieberman $12,000 in cash, telling him to use it to purchase whatever he needs to protect himself and the other shluchim.
Their next stop was the IDF Army Command Center in Ashkelon, where they met high-ranking IDF personnel, and received an update on the war efforts.
An awe-inspiring visit to Chabad of Sedrot followed, where the delegation met local shliach Rabbi Moshe Zeev Pizam and heard from him about the attack on Simchas Torah and his efforts in the days since to provide physical and spiritual sustenance to locals.
He showed them the site where shrapnel from a rocket had hit just meters away from his Chabad house, leaving a crater in the Chabad House’s parking lot and damaging cars parked there. It was only by a miracle that no one was hurt.
While enjoying a meal there, Rabbi Chaim Mentz of Chabad of Bel Air, CA, got up and told the shluchim about some of the heavy expenses Chabad of Sderot has incurred in the past two weeks. Within two minutes, the shluchim around the table pledged $30,000, which Rabbi Mentz promised would be given to Rabbi Pizam before the end of the trip.
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