the home // 250 square meters, with a living room and kitchen, children’s rooms and a bedroom, and two study rooms, one for Yishy and one for Beth Chen. They moved into the house last summer.
this morning // Around six thirty they wake up the children. Oriya and Netzach are the eldest who still live at home, and they leave at quarter past seven by bus to Alon-Mora. Yishai and Betchen take the remaining four children to the educational institutions themselves. Yishai goes to prayer and Beth Chen starts work from home.
Fashion // Bat-chen runs a fashion store in Bethel. Twice a week she goes to shift there, to manage the business closely, but the rest of the time she works remotely. In the past she had a business designing silver and goldfield jewelry, and even today she does this a little. She also studied Torah counseling at Yad Binyamin and did a bit of guiding and guiding girls who faced challenges in their lives.
Satam // Yeshi spends a significant part of the day writing tefillin and mezuzot, and the rest of the time he teaches writing and jurisprudence at Setam. In addition, he studies Halacha and prepares lessons that he teaches in the Yishuv every week. “We both work at home, so we are together every day. We are involved in a variety of projects that break the routine – accompaniment of a kidney donation, for example, of a donor or donated, and assistance in other challenges.”
history // Yishai grew up in the gardens of Samaria, the second of four children. He is qualified as a mayor. “Soon we hope he will be certified as a judge.” Bat-chen is the second daughter out of nine. Until the age of 18, she lived in Neve-Daklim in Gush Katif. After the deportation, she studied at the Shilot Midrash for girls.
Introduction // Yishai was about to take up the position of a police officer in Golani, and Bat-Chen was studying at a seminary. “One day I said to my roommate: Listen, I have to freshen up, let’s go play snooker in Kfar Saba. She said fine, but you don’t have to go all the way there, someone from my tribe has snooker at home and is now on leave from the army. After two and a half months, we got engaged.” They got married, in 23 Av 5566, during a ceasefire in the Second Lebanon War.
Transitions // They initially lived in Mova-Dotan in northern Samaria. Yishai began rabbinical studies. Because of the complexity of the first pregnancy, they moved to live near her parents in the Karvilot neighborhood in Ein-Zurim. The twins Shiral and Sheila were born in the 27th week: “They weighed 920 and 930 grams. Shiral went through the premature delivery relatively quickly, and left the hospital after three months. Sheila underwent her first surgery at the age of 12 days and had to face more difficult challenges until she left the hospital. For For a year and a half, he underwent eight surgeries until he overcame his miscarriage problems.”
Yitzhar // They live in Givat Takuma, an old hill in Itzhar – twenty years old. There are about thirty families in it. “We lived in Bethel for nine years, and we always knew that as soon as Sisima finished his law studies, we would move to another place where we could invest more in the people of Israel.”
They were looking for a settlement in the south, but after their beloved godfather was killed, they decided to go to Yosh.
They began the absorption process, bought land, and Vichy was the construction contractor at the same time as the work. After ten months they moved to the new house.
kidney donation // Bat-Chen was exposed to the issue of kidney donation when she read about it in the “Gift of Life” association’s newsletter, but she thought it was far from practical because the procedure is not recommended for women who have not yet finished giving birth. “It was on the Sabbath of Passover, and I really remember how I read the flyer, and when I came home on Friday the first sentence I said to him was ‘Tell Yeshi, why don’t you donate a kidney?'” Yishai researched the issue on his part, heard recommendations and read opinions of judges, then began the process and donated a kidney to a 12-year-old boy.
Book // Yishai wrote a book on the subject: “Kidney and Heart Examiner”. They are crowdfunding it.
liver donation // Bat-chen, for her part, donated a liver lobe before Pesach. “I saw on Facebook that they were looking for a donation for a six-month-old baby. I thought: why don’t I donate? I contacted the doctor who is treating the baby, he asked me a few questions and said it sounded good. We agreed that he would inform Schneider and Blinson and that they would talk to me in the morning. The next day I left for work, went to the store to treat A few matters, and after fifteen minutes I left for Belinson. I was received there by a transplant coordinator, and the surgeon explained to me the course of the operation and recovery. After a psychological evaluation, they decided to set off.
“Yeshi told me from his experience that I should hear the word ‘successful’ at the end of the committee, and that actually means I passed. When I left the committee I called him and told him that everyone who spoke to me in the committee ended their words with good luck.” On the day of the operation, they went to the transplant department, and the operation was indeed successful. “When I was woken up, Yishai was already by my side, and then I was informed that the baby, Alantan, was undergoing surgery. The procedure ended at ten at night, and in the meantime we received a gift from Dr. Gurvitz, a huge stone that I had in my gallbladder.”
secret // At first they didn’t tell almost anyone. Only after the surgery was successfully completed did they call the parents. “We were very afraid of their reaction. Six years ago we went into surgery with their blessing, but we saw the great fear and concern.
“Here I would like to mention the reaction of Yishai’s grandfather, grandfather Yitzchak, who celebrated his 91st birthday on Passover. He saw how the people of Israel came out of the Holocaust to rebirth, and he experienced the establishment of the state and the wars of Israel. He told us about his childhood, when he shared a blanket his with his sisters, and told us about hunger in Jerusalem. His reaction was etched in our hearts.”
recovery // During the recovery period, Bat-Chen was relatively inactive: “The children were cleaned and arranged for Pesach and he took care of them while being busy with his work. Today, God willing, I almost came back to myself, and Alantan Rafael has already left intensive care and is making good progress.”
giving // After consulting with friends and rabbis they decided that sharing the story could make other people want to contribute themselves. “From our point of view, the nation of Israel is a nation of kindness, a nation of giving. After my donation, Yishai spoke with a friend who donated a kidney, and he clarified another point for us: sometimes we are told, ‘Blessed are you, you saved a life, thanks to you he is alive,’ but the truth is that I donated a liver lobe , God gave life.”
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