Teacher from Kiev traveled to Israel to give birth: "We have no home to return to, property is being looted""

March 3, 2022   

Hani and Eliezer Kochav Lev are residents of the Padol neighborhood in Kiev, where she has been working for a year and a half as a teacher at Rabbi Yaakov Bleich's Jewish school. Money under the covers or investing in a portfolio? The robot will answer what is better for you Her estimated due date was the day the invasion began. The plan was to give birth in Israel and return to Kiev. "If I had given birth before the estimated due date, I would have been in Kiev with a newborn baby in this impossible situation," she says. "In the delivery room, we were constantly updated on the news. The emotions were mixed, a feeling of great joy mixed with sadness, with reports coming in nonstop from the community's WhatsApp group, most of whom are hiding in a Jewish synagogue located underground, a few of whom managed to escape to Poland. In the delivery room, reports are received about what is happening in their home in Ukraine. The reports include photos of Ukrainian citizens who have received weapons from the government, and are shooting in broad daylight anyone who poses a threat to them, and another report from one of Hani's students, who witnessed the murder of a Russian resident who was passing by. "We plunged into the exciting birth event. The birth process was amazing, with non-stop professional and emotional support from the dedicated midwifery team, at the end of which our second son emerged into the world. I couldn't stop thinking about how the war would affect his future and the future of all of us. "The first ones we reported to, even before the family, were our families in Kiev. We wanted so much to start their morning with good news. And indeed, they were so happy and started dancing in the bunker. "The situation is not easy, right now we have nowhere to return to. We don't know what's happening with our home. We hear all kinds of rumors about people looting property from abandoned houses, tanks plowing the streets." [Gallery]