Givati Brigade Sgt. Yehuda Yitzchak HaYisraeli, 23, has been in a medically induced coma in Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center for the past three weeks. He was wounded in Operation Protective Edge in Rafiach. Until the weekend, his wife Rivkah was at his side. They are staying in a hotel near the hospital to remain at his bedside and to continue being mispallel on his behalf. Rivkah had to leave for she went into labor, delivering a boy.
Yehuda Yitzchak was wounded in the battle in which Major Benaya Sarel, First Sgt. Liel Gidoni, and Lt. Hadar Goldin HY”D were killed, on erev Shabbos 5 Menachem Av. A piece of shrapnel pierced his head and the family has been at his side waiting for good news since he came out of surgery.
Rivkah, who is a daughter of a Tel Aviv area rav, explains “we need ongoing tefilos”, calling on Am Yisrael to be mispallel for her husband.
The tzibur is urged to be mispallel for Yehuda Yitzchak ben Iris bsoch kol cholei Am Yisrael.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Bittersweet. May Hashem send Yehuda Yitzchak ben Iris a refuah sheleima b’karov and may he and his ayshes chayil have much nachas from their new son. L’torah l’chupah ul’maasim tovim.
Mazel tov ! With hashem’s help his father should have a refuah sheleimah!