The tragedy in the Haredi community in Netivot: The late Yosef Naim, a 6-year-old boy, lost consciousness at home this morning (Monday) and did not wake up from his sleep.
He was rushed, with resuscitation efforts, to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, where he was pronounced dead.
The boy's four sisters were also evacuated to the hospital.
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The older sister, 10, was evacuated yesterday with seizures and is still hospitalized. After tests conducted on her yesterday and today, it is still unclear what caused the seizures.
Three additional sisters - ages 7, 4, and 2 - were evacuated with symptoms of fever and difficulty breathing and were treated in the emergency room.
The child, a first-grade student at Talmud Torah 'Netivot Yehuda' - complained yesterday to 'Haider' that he was not feeling well.
In a conversation with 'News 12', the father of the family, Yehuda Naim, who teaches at the Talmud Torah in Ofakim, says: "There were no underlying illnesses, the child is healthy. He had a fever and suffered from seizures. He didn't have it in the last year, a month ago he had coronavirus and he finished it.".
""He was a healthy child for all intents and purposes, and yesterday he had a little fever, I brought him 'Norfen'. He went to bed and didn't wake up. He was a good, strong, beautiful boy. This morning he didn't wake up. That's it. A month and a half ago he was done with the coronavirus and got well. He had a green card, for some reason it says he has a 'long-term background illness,' it's nothing, nonsense.".
Regarding the condition of the sisters, the father said: "They have a fever, the whole family suffered from a fever. It's some kind of virus, the whole family. There are post-corona side effects, but that's not what it was, he probably had a virus or bacteria.".
The father added: "We are finished, what can I say? Waiting for the day I see him, either in the real world or in the resurrection. We are crazy, a healthy boy, playing soccer! Yesterday he read some stories, told me I would see. He started learning to read, he loved Rabbi Elazar Edri. When I wanted to punish him, I would tell him not to go to Talmud Torah.".
The father told Kenneth News: "The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. We were privileged to raise a holy and pure soul for six and a half years, we were privileged to have a gift from the Lord, the Blessed One. Six and a half years that we were privileged to have. We went to raise such a holy soul.".
Mother Hila told Haredim 10 reporter Yisrael Yosef: "He did not die from Corona and there is no connection at all. Whoever publishes this wants to say that it is related. God gave, God has taken away, blessed be the name of God.".
At this time, the hospital does not know the cause of death.
Through joint work by the teams of the ZAKA legal department, the Netivot police and the prosecutor's office, and with the efforts of Chief Rabbi Reuven Kamil, rabbi of the Southern District Police, and with the assistance of Rabbi Asher Landa, rabbi of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, the child's body was released for burial. The burial will take place tonight in the Netivot cemetery.
