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Received the email below before Purim from David Morris, the Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Chessed organization Lema’an Achai in Ramat Beit Shemesh which provides social services and help for hundreds of needy Ramat Beit Shemesh families.
All information listed in the text of the email below has been verified as to accuracy and seriousness of Miro Cohen’s need.
Amutah “Bet Tzomet”
Yishuv Tekoa
d.n. Tzafon Yehuda 90908Attn: Ayal Levi (Miro Cohen Yishuv Tekoa)
and by clearly specifying that the donation goes to; “Miro Cohen Yishuv Tekoa” and marking same on the bottom left side of the envelope. The Seif 46 # for Bet Tzomet is; #580373512.
Tomche Yisrael ( 501(c)(3)# 141290002)
369 Crown Street
Brooklyn, NY 11225
USAMemo Line on check should read; “Miro Cohen Yishuv Tekoa”
Attention line on the envelope; “Miro Cohen Yishuv Tekoa”
Please let me know that you can help by commenting on this blog post. Tizke L’Mitzvot!
David wrote;
It is particularly important, as Oslo War shows every sign of heating up again, to set a firm precedent that Jews can be relied upon to aid our fellow Jews, who are punished for defending themselves from Arab attacks.
I spoke today with Yaniv Cohen, the son of Miro Cohen, Security Officer for Tekoa, and a Jewish Hero.
Sixteen years ago, during the First Oslo War, in the course of Miro’s security duties, he was attacked by Arabs with rocks and boulders on the road to Tekoa. When Miro fired back in order to defend himself and other Jewish drivers, an Arab attacker was seriously injured and died of his wounds two years later.
As an inevitable consequence of a policy of successive Israeli governments which hold as suspicious and which brings court litigation against almost any Jew who defends himself or his family against Arab terrorist attacks, for the past sixteen years, Miro has been pursued and harassed by an extremist left wing group, Yedidei Beit Sachor, through both criminal and civil courts.
To cut a long and harrowing story short, Miro was found innocent in the Criminal Court which found that the rock attack by the Arabs posed an imminent threat to his life. Later, he fined 600,000 NIS by the Civil Court which deemed that there was no threat to Miro’s life.
Subsequently, Miro pleaded that he is does not have and is unable to pay 600,000 NIS. The court then reduced his fine. Miro now must now pay legal fees to the Judge of Civil Court, some 90,000 NIS ($25,000) to close the file. He has three months to pay.
Miro does not have the means on his own to pay. If the fine is not paid within three months, the court will seize or attach his pension until it is paid. Miro is a family man, father of ten children of which four, ages ranging from 13 to 20 years, are still at home. He needs both the pay he earns as Tekoa’s head of security and his monthly pension in order to live.
Yaniv lives in Ramat Bet Shemesh, and is working hard to collect the money for his father Miro Cohen, who is aged 62 and worn out after years of struggle. Yaniv speaks very little English and has virtually no contacts abroad.
I invite you to help! Tizke L’Mitzvot!