Devorah Paley, who lost her two young sons in the Ramot terror attack, is also grappling with the fact that her husband, severely injured in the attack, is still sedated and ventilated.

“His body underwent severe trauma, he’s still ventilated,” she told Kan News. “He doesn’t know anything [about his sons’ deaths].”

“We hope that he’ll wake up healthy. The Borei Olam should give him koach to get up and endure the new reality.”

“What will be? What will be without our two ‘metukim’ [sweeties]?” she said. “Everyone loved them so much. Yaakov, z’l, was five, Asher, z’l, was seven. They were happy children, good children, children that loved to help, to be tzaddikim, children with great neshamos, children that talked about ideas like chessed, giving to others. A neighbor mentioned how they used to go around every Friday – we have an organization that we collect for people in need – they would make the rounds with the tzedaka box every Friday.”

Meanwhile, the two brothers who survived the attack are forced to sit shiva without the comforting presence of their father.

In the video below, the brother Tzviki describes how his younger brother Moishe was standing right to Alter Shlomo Lederman, h’yd, who was killed in the attack but yet Moishe was only lightly injured, Baruch Hashem.

“They were standing right next to each other,” Tzviki said. “The car injured him but not him. Why? We don’t understand cheshbonos Shamayim.”

המשגיח הגאון הצדיק רבי בנימין פינקל עלה עם סיום ההספד ודברי החיזוק בת"ת 'דרך תבונה' ברמות שם למדו הקדושים משפחת פאלי, והגיע יחד עם מנהל הת"ת הרב קוסובר לנחם את המשפחה השכולה pic.twitter.com/4HtaHhD4od

— משה ויסברג (@moshe_nayes) February 12, 2023

Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau visited the father in Hadassah Har Hatzofim Hospital on Sunday morning.

Since then, his condition has deteriorated and the public is asked to daven for a refuah sheleimah for Avraham Noach Ben Yehudis b’toch sha’ar cholei Yisrael.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)