Four-Month-Old Left in Hot Car in Kfar Chabad Released Home After Recovery

A four-month-old baby, Chaim ben Chaya Mushka, was discharged this week from Shamir Medical Center, formerly Assaf Harofeh, after 10 days of treatment and returned home healthy. The infant had been found in a locked car in Kfar Chabad on Wednesday, June 3, after being left for hours during intense heat.

According to the report, the baby was brought to the hospital in critical condition, unconscious and in immediate danger to his bodily systems. When emergency teams arrived, they found him extremely hot to the touch and unstable. Magen David Adom paramedics Shmuel Gelbstein and Moshe Gelbstein, together with senior medic Yossi Navoul, provided life-saving treatment and evacuated him in a mobile intensive care unit.

United Hatzalah volunteers from the Kfar Chabad branch also joined the efforts, led by branch head Chaim Meir Friedman and medics Eli Turnheim, Itzik Schiff and Chaim Rivkin. The article says the scene was severe, with the baby completely unconscious. At the hospital, doctors fought for his life for days while the Haredi public, especially the Chabad community in Israel and abroad, recited Psalms and made good resolutions on his behalf.

After his release, his parents thanked God and the many people who prayed for him. They said, “Thank you to the Holy One, blessed be He, for the great miracles, and thank you all for the prayers that shook the worlds and brought about his complete recovery in a wondrous way.” The report ends by warning the public again not to leave children in cars, even for a moment, noting that temperatures inside a parked car in Israeli summer conditions can quickly exceed 70 degrees Celsius.