Even before the war officially recovered, Shimon Sabag from Haifa, CEO of Yad Ezer LaHaber, flew to Ukraine, opened an equipment and food warehouse for the elderly and Jews and has been assisting refugees and residents there for about three weeks.
Yesterday he heard that an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor, Lilia and Ladrovna, had “stuck” without anyone in Kiev in the midst of the Russian attack.
Simon recruited a number of volunteers who in a dangerous operation and after a journey of 13 hours, managed to rescue her and bring her to the Polish border. She is now in a safe place and in the coming days is expected to arrive in Israel by flight: “It is difficult for me to express my gratitude in words to people who have left everything to help people they do not know.”