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The victim of last week's utterly evil missile attack on a school bus, is local Bet Shemesh/RBS resident Daniel Viflic, aged 16. Daniel is in critical condition - and his family asks all of us to daven for his survival and recuperation (Raphael Daniel Arieh ben Tamar). The coming hours are extremely important. Lema'an Achai, the RBS Chesed Organization, is coordinating all efforts to help the family, shoulder to shoulder with our colleagues at "One Family" (who specialise in assisting Terror Victims) and "Paamonim" (who specialise in financial and small business structuring). * How You Can Help * The Viflic family run a small catering business, and right now (coming up to Pessach) was planned to be their peak season. Due to the horrific circumstances the Viflic's are now suffering, the business will be non-existent during this period. Unfortunately, there is no cash reserve to fall back on. In order to float the business and the family unt...

10th April - Update: Raphael Daniel Aryeh ben Tamar (Viflic) remains in critical condition. His family asks for us all to pray for Daniel's life, and Be"H, his full recovery. Previous Posting:  The victim of yesterday's utterly evil missile attack upon a school bus near Gaza, was local Bet Shemesh/RBS resident, Daniel Viflic. Daniel, just 16, is now fighting for his life, in critical condition, in Saroka Hospital, Beersheva, due to extensive injuries throughout his body, particularly to his head. Daniel and his family are popular residents of the Ramat Bet Shemesh community. Daniel was reportedly on his way to visit his grandparents who live in the Negev. The family are regular attendees at my shul, Ohr Shalom, and Aish Kodesh, and are well known for their Chinese food businesses in the area. Prayer sessions for Daniel are being held in local synogogues. Please join all of us, in praying for the life and speedy recuperation of [ Update 8/4/11 - Ne...

While still reverberating from the horror of the murder of the five members of the Fogel family in Itamar….the second blow hit us, of the bomb in Jerusalem . It is hard for non-Israelis to understand the personal closeness of any event in Israel , and how this impacts every Israeli. The first we heard of the bomb in Jerusalem , was a call from Daniel, my son-in-law, who works five minutes from the terror attack. He was calling in to say “you don’t need to worry about me, I’m fine”. My daughter Shira, Daniel’s wife let out a gasp. “Wow – I was just at that bus stop where the bomb went off, an hour ago… Hashem Yerachem…” We immediately called my son who studies at Yashlatz (located just five hundred yards from the bombing) and my daughter who studies at Machon Tal (a few hundred yards further on from Yashlatz). Both were OK, if unnerved by the sirens of ambulances racing past them. Unfortunately, others from Bet Shemesh were less fortunate. The Bet Shemesh to Jerusalem 416 bus had...