She remembers going to a hospital
after a Tel Aviv bus bombing in
October 1994, and seeing a roomful
of Israelis hugging and kissing and
crying over an injured victim lying in
a bed. A wounded Russian immigrant
was in the room, too. "I looked
behind the partition curtain and saw
her — a young woman lying in bed
alone, with her face turned to the
wall," Bar-On says.
Among the volunteers are some 20
Russian immigrants who themselves
were injured in terrorist acts, or whose
family members were injured or killed.
The volunteers don't counsel the
victims, but assist them getting
through the hardships of daily life. As
a matter of course, friendships form.
In Raisa's case, Bar-On notes, vol-
unteers helped her family move apart-
ments, and took her to the eye doctor.
Raisa's father and mother had both
worked, and now their incomes were
gone, so the council, a private organi-
zation, gave them money.
Sonya Nutov's connection with the
Crisis Management Center began on
Aug. 21, 1995, when suicide terrorists
blew up a Jerusalem bus on which she
was a passenger. She spent three weeks
in the hospital with shrapnel in her
lungs and broken bones in her arm.
This was before her parents emi-
grated to Israel and while she was
studying dance at the prestigious
Rubin Academy. In the hospital she
didn't want to talk to anyone until a
volunteer, Natasha Koretz, began visit-
ing her and drawing her out.
"The doctors had told me I would-
n't be able to go on dancing," Nutov
recalls. "For them it was important
that I be able to walk and become
functional again, but dancing was
already considered a luxury. I asked
Natasha to look at my legs and tell me
what she thought. She said, 'You're
going to dance again.'"
The council gave Nutov the money
for a physiotherapy regimen designed
especially for dancers. Soon enough,
she was back on the dance floor.
After a later bombing, Nutov, now
a volunteer for the Crisis Management
Center, attached herself to the family
of Gennady Estarin, who was in criti-
ocal condition. "His family said it gave
him hope to see that I had gone
through the same thing and recov-
ered," she said. "He was one of those
`against all odds' people. Today his
wife is pregnant."
As Bar-On notes, "There is a lot of
sadness in our work, a lot of happiness
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