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Heartwarming!
Israelis Set Record for Blood Donation
Arab plumbers charge Holocaust
survivor zero shekels for repairs.
T
wo Arab plumbers —
brothers — recently
refused payment from
a Jewish client from Haifa
after they learned she was a
Holocaust survivor.
On a Facebook page called
Good Deeds Day, the story
is told of Simon and Salim
Matari who came to the home
of a 95-year-old woman to “fix
a routine problem.
”
During their visit, they
engaged in conversation with
the woman. She told them her
“life story.
”
During the course of the
discussion, as the plumbers
were continuing their work,
the woman revealed that
she is a Holocaust survivor,
said Simon, according to the
Facebook post.
She also said she has a “lone
daughter,
” he added.
“Her story touched my
heart,
” said the plumber. “
At
that moment, I decided not to
charge her an agora,
” he said,
as quoted by the Good Deeds
Day post.
“Money is important,
”
Simon said, “but it’
s not the
most important. It’
s important
to be a human being.
”
The woman was identified
in a Channel 12 TV report as
Rosa Meir. The amount the
plumbers would have normal-
ly charged reportedly was NIS
1,000, the equivalent of $285.
On the receipt, the plumbers
put the sum total at “0,
” and in
the column for the description
of the work they had done,
they wrote: “Holocaust survi-
vor” and added the traditional
Jewish greeting wishing her
good health until the age of
120, and then included their
names on the slip of paper.
H
undreds of Israelis
gathered at an IDF
base Oct. 7 and set a
new Israeli record for the larg-
est number of blood donations
collected in one day and one
place.
Some 1,567 blood dona-
tions were collected in a joint
operation carried out by the
Samaria Regional Council, the
IDF’
s Samaria Division and
Magen David Adom (MDA).
This broke the last record
set in Tel Aviv during
Operation Protective Edge in
summer 2014, which stood at
740 blood units.
This was the first time that
an active attempt was made in
Israel to set a record for blood
donations.
From United with Israel.org.
WORLD ISRAEL NEWS STAFF
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Holocaust survivor
Rosa Meir, flanked
by the two plumbers
Simon and Salim
Matari, and the
receipt
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