Baruch Dayan Emmes: Mrs. Batsheva Baumel ob”m, 35, a mother of five from Petach Tikvah, was niftar on Wednesday morning 25 Teves in Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah. Mrs. Baumel was the daughter of R’ Tuvia Pomeranchik, head of the chevra kadisha and a well-known askan who is always busy with acts of chessed. Her husband is a son of Rav Tzvi Baumel of Chinuch Atzmai.

Mrs. Baumel arrived in the hospital on Tuesday night in critical condition, presenting with high fever and other signs of severe pneumonia that already began compromising vital bodily functions. Tefilos were recited in the city on her behalf. She was attached to an EKMO machine after collapsing a short time after arriving in the emergency room but it appears her body was unable to fight off the infection and collapse of major organs. The hospital is probing to determine the cause of death which remains unknown at the time of this report.

Family members tell the media the nifteres was in an emergency room a day earlier and she was complained of not feeling well. The physicians determined her lungs were clear at that time.

The levaya will leave from the Baumel home at 7 Echad Ha’Am Street in Petach Tikvah at 13:00 and kvura will be in the Segulah Cemetery at 14:30.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)