Dispatchers from the local police station in Givat Hamivtar were shocked when they discovered that an emergency caller that had come in on a Shabbos afternoon was all but five years old.

“My Daddy fell down,” said a timid voice on the other line.

“He’s not waking up. He’s sleeping on the floor now…H-he used to have something called cancer?”

Miri Abuhav was playing hide-and-go-seek with her father on a Shabbos afternoon when he suddenly fainted. Forgetting that her mother was napping in the other room, Miri did exactly what her parents had trained her to do: She picked up the home phone and dialled the police. Incredibly, at such a young age, Miri Abuhav saved her father’s life.

“I am so amazed by her,” says Shlomo, Miri’s father. But in the end, she didn’t just save his life.

She saved it twice.

“It was during my hospital stay after the incident occurred that we discovered that my cancer had returned. The doctors said that we caught it just in time.”

Miraculously, Shlomo is still alive. But he remains in critical condition.

“Today, Shlomo is lying on his deathbed,” explains Shlomo’s wife Shira tearfully.

“A wonderful father, a wonderful husband, and a wonderful person. Our five kids are sitting by his side, saying tehillim and crying. They are begging Hashem not to take their Daddy away. The doctors have just informed us that there is an emergency treatment that will directly save Shlomo’s life. But it costs $30,000, and our bank account is completely dried up after surviving off of just my income for so long. 

This all feels like a nightmare that I can’t wake up from. Shlomo’s life depends on the one thing we don’t have– Money. If we raise enough money in time, my kids won’t have to go through the pain of losing their beloved father, and I won’t go through the pain of losing my beloved husband…We so badly don’t want to lose him. We can’t lose him. We need him.”

Funds are being urgently collected by Darchei Miriam so that Shlomo can receive the treatment that his life directly depends on. As every precious minute with their father passes, his family is praying for a faint glimmer of hope. Click here to save the life of Shlomo Abuhav, a father of five children.