JEWISH AGENCY ASSISTS OLIM FAMILIES OF TERROR BOMBING VICTIMS
Eleven New Immigrants Killed in Recent Terror Attacks
Jewish Agency Provides Families in Israel and Abroad with Practical and Moral Assistance
Nine of the fifteen people killed in the Haifa suicide bus-bombing on December 2nd and two of those killed in the November 29th Pardess Hannah suicide bus bombing were new immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU). Likewise two of the eleven killed in the December 1st Jerusalem pedestrian mall suicide bombing attack were immigrants: one from France and one from the FSU. Many of the wounded in these attacks were immigrants. Immediately upon learning of the attacks the Jewish Agency assisted the families of these attack victims in Israel, the FSU and in other countries.
Agency staff visited family members of the deceased and the wounded and their families offering moral and practical support. Jewish Agency personnel in offices throughout the FSU and elsewhere, helped locate relatives and fly them to Israel, making the necessary travel arrangements. Jewish Agency officials abroad arranged for local Governments to issue visas and travel documents (which often pose almost insurmountable difficulties in the FSU), and purchased tickets. In Israel, the Agency workers counseled and intervened on behalf of the families in their demarches with the National Insurance Institute to assist them in receiving compensation and reimbursement.
The following human dramas illustrate the scope of Jewish Agency's humanitarian assistance in this time of crisis:
The late Michael Zraisky, (71) was killed at the bombing in Haifa. The Jewish Agency flew his son in from Sochi.
The late Simyun Kalik was killed at the Haifa bombing as well. The Jewish Agency flew his two daughters who live in the Urals to Israel to be with their with their widowed mother.
The 76 year old mother and the brother of the late Mara Fishman who was also killed in the Haifa bombing, reside in Germany. The Jewish Agency located them and assisted them in flying to Israel for to be with Mara's widowed husband and son Alex (a student in the Technion).
The Jewish Agency purchased tickets for the two sons of the late Rassim Safiullin(76), who reside in California to join their widowed mother for the funeral in Israel, and assisted them with the National Insurance Institute.
The Jewish Agency and Sela are attempting to locate relatives of the late Anna Frankel whose body was not claimed.
The Jewish Agency assisted the son and grandson of the late Cecilia Kusmin(78) be in touch with their family in the FSU.
The late 28-year old Yeshayev Orshad who immigrated along with his parents from the Northern Caucasus city of Pyatgursk in 1993 left behind his sister. The Jewish Agency is now assisting her to immigrate.
The Jewish Agency is attempting to enable the children and divorcee of the late Shmuel Milashevsky immigrate to Israel.
Svetlana Bogorotsky, a graduate of the Jewish Agency's Naaleh High School Program (for youngsters who immigrate without their parents), and currently a student in Haifa University, suffered severe burns in her shoulder, shrapnel wounds in her hands and eye damage. Her younger brother recently immigrated and is studying in Jerusalem. The Jewish Agency is arranging with Sela to bring her mother to Israel.
Sergei Svezdin, 17 years old, who immigrated with his divorced mother in 1991, was operated and is in the Orthopedic surgery ward of Rambam Hospital. The Jewish Agency together with Sela is working to bring his father to Israel.
18-year old Georgi Iskiv, a student in Jerusalem's Machon Lev (College of Technology) who came to Israel alone three months ago from Lvov, was wounded in the terror attack on the pedestrian mall in Jerusalem. At his request, the Jewish Agency arranged for his father to travel from Lvov to Jerusalem.
The Jewish Agency social workers assisted Bnei Akiva French program participants in Jerusalem cope with the wounding of a fellow participant.
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