Comforters who came to the Marli family home to comfort mourners following the murder of their 14-year-old son Asher Natan in an attack in Neve Ya’akov on Saturday night, were surprised to discover that the family had no means and was living in an apartment in difficult conditions.
In ‘YNET’ it was reported that the electricity in the family’s house was cut off during the shava, and was reconnected after the family’s debt was paid.
Journalist Yishai Cohen, who was at the home of the shocked family, started collecting donations and said on his Twitter account that “the Marley family is in a very difficult financial situation. Everyone who visits the house is shocked. Nine people (after losing their first born son) in a shocking 60 meter apartment.”
The electric company stated: “The family that is Keshet Yom is connected to electricity through a prepayment meter, which it charges itself from time to time according to consumption. At 1:24 p.m., they contacted the electricity company and told them that due to the failure to charge the meter, the electricity supply to the house was stopped. This was not known to us. It is not a disconnection, but the failure to charge the meter.
“As soon as we received the report, NIS 600 was deposited for the benefit of the family for current electricity consumption, and at the same time the family was informed that they would receive a regular supply as long as they are needed. At the same time, the family’s past debt will be transferred at the initiative of the Electric Company to the Electric Company’s aid fund to examine the The payment of the debt by the electric company. Around 14:00, about half an hour after the report, the electricity supply was resumed for the family.”