tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15659738.post6320834507560374437..comments2023-10-05T18:32:31.021+03:00Comments on O C C U P I E D: Many elderly are poor, not only holocaust survivors...yudithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13694345940567222710noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15659738.post-27877059538707240952007-08-17T17:27:00.000+03:002007-08-17T17:27:00.000+03:00Akiva, what IS your point? Denying the holocaust? ...Akiva, what IS your point? <BR/>Denying the holocaust? I most definitely don't, so why are you bringin up Lisa's trip to Lebanon?<BR/><BR/>My point is poverty amongst the elderly. Poverty so bad it endangers their lives.<BR/>I don't think any old person, whether holocaust survivor or not, here of not, should be able to live a dignified life. <BR/>No elderly person, whether part of "klal Israel" or not, in the state of Israel, should live in dire poverty.<BR/>when the state pension is all of 2200 NIS monthly, it implies the people are poor.<BR/>They have to choose between medicine and food. Sometimes they can not afford the medical check ups they need becouse they cannot pay the "agra.<BR/>I truly do not mind who they are.<BR/>They are our responsibility. "kol Israel areivim ze laze" and i expand that to ALL citizens of the stateyudithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13694345940567222710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15659738.post-73202698763420378272007-08-17T12:00:00.000+03:002007-08-17T12:00:00.000+03:00The Shoah survivors are heroes for surviving the h...The Shoah survivors are heroes for surviving the horrors of death camps and are testimony against the Holocaust deniers like Abu Mazan etc...who wrote a book dennying the Shoah.Even Lisa wrote in her blog that when she went from Tel Aviv to beirut via amman recently --- what did she see at the bookshop at Queen Alia airport in Amman -- Mein Kampf in Arabic for sale !!!!<BR/><BR/>So,Klal Yisrael --- honour the Shoah victims in their time of need.If need be,Jewish org in America etc should help out by subsidizing the Shoah survivors in IsraelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15659738.post-72797970172574901982007-08-16T11:41:00.000+03:002007-08-16T11:41:00.000+03:00There is no solidarity anymore, a lot of people ha...There is no solidarity anymore, a lot of people have forgotten where they come from, and under which circumstances the elders under healtbreaking conditions have laid the fundament for today's wealth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15659738.post-72529642934651214432007-08-16T10:14:00.000+03:002007-08-16T10:14:00.000+03:00Of course, as life expectation continues to rise, ...Of course, as life expectation continues to rise, with additional medical/treatment costs, and more and more people no longer work - there are more and more poor elderly citizens. The state disregards them and if they are lucky, they have children that look after them, and if not – not. It's particularly hard to fathom in a country like Israel, where most people of that age devoted all their time and resources to building a small, strife-struck country. There is another issue though: Israel received money specifically earmarked for the holocaust survivors. What the country did with it, don't ask me…Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com