Insurance agent Yosef Refaeli explains that when a person with serious illness wishes to fly, often, an airline will insist on seeing an insurance policy due to the possibility of incurring significant expense. This case explains Refaeli to Kol Chai Radio host Mordechai Lavi deals with a child who the doctors list as terminally ill, and the boy has one request, to visit the tziyun of Rav Nachman in the Ukraine. He explains the family was unable to find an insurance company will to give him a policy that would permit him to travel.

Rabbi Hillel Cohen of Ukraine Hatzalah contacted Refaeli and asked him to see if he can assist. Refaeli not only found an insurance company willing to give a policy which costs $600 a day for the 48 journey, the company picked up the tab for the policy and the expenses of the trip, including the airfare. The boy, Nachman ben Nitza Sagit will be accompanied by his nurse who is quite familiar with his case and medical needs.

As a result of the chessed of the insurance company, Nachman left for the Ukraine on Sunday 3 Adar-II and he will be returning on Monday, after being given the opportunity to be mispallel at the tziyun.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)