No Eye Was Left Dry as the Daidzon Family Reunited at the Hospital
After a week and a half of terrible heartbreak, the Daidzon children had a moment of comfort when they finally came to the hospital to meet their father, who had begun to recover from his severe injuries. The terrible disaster occurred on Friday evening, on the eve of Shabbat in the desert, while they were on the way to a recovery center. The mother, Eila, may she rest in peace, was supposed to remain there for several days with her young and lovely infant, Avinoam Meir, may he rest in peace. The accident claimed the baby's life instantly and seriously injured both parents. The two were hospitalized while sedated and on ventilators, and did not know at all that they had lost their baby. The doctors fought for their lives and succeeded only partially. The father, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman, regained consciousness after a week, בדיוק at the time when his wife returned her soul to her Creator. He attended his wife's funeral on Motzaei Shabbat, where he met their eldest son, who recited Kaddish while standing beside the father's wheelchair, but immediately after the funeral he returned to the hospital.
Yesterday, the children, the four who remained, came to visit their father at the hospital. When they saw him sitting in the wheelchair, they threw themselves at him and embraced him as one, and thus all five remained wrapped in an embrace together, reunited and beginning the long journey of rebuilding their lives after the double tragedy. Those standing nearby and witnessing the moving reunion could not hold back their tears and wept aloud. Rabbi Shlomi and his children also cried, missing the mother who was gone and the sweet baby who brought light into their home, only to be taken before he had learned to smile or purr with pleasure at the brothers and sisters dancing around him.
"At last, the moving reunion between Shlomi and his sweet children took place at the hospital. Not a dry eye remained during this heartbreaking, painful, and powerful meeting. The young children, whose father is all they have left after the terrible disaster in which they lost their beloved mother and their infant brother, spent long days in fear and anxiety for his well-being," the family members wrote. "It was so important that they could see him, touch him, understand that he is alive, breathing, and with them. Shlomi is still badly injured and needs a long and complex rehabilitation, but he is here for his children and by their side. Now it is our time as a community and as the people of Israel to surround them with love, prayers, encouragement, and assistance, so that, with God's help, they can continue to live happy, healthy, and joyful lives despite the great pain they have endured."
