When the virus spreads in Israel, there are those who take advantage of the situation to steal money from older people. This is how thousands of shekels were stolen from my mother who just wanted to buy bread at the supermarket.

• Customers at Bnei Brak. The photographers have nothing to do with the story \\ Photo Archive: Yehoshua Yosef

Corona days, days of social solidarity right? Not so. My dear mother, one of the founders of this country, who has worked in the media for decades and was the first religious editor in major sector religious media, has experienced the evil this week has in our world for adults.

What happened? What did she do? She went to the local supermarket to buy food for Saturday because she didn't even have bread after a week's seclusion. No, she is an independent person and did not tell me or my sisters that she needed groceries, she is an active person and the writer is far from her home a total of 750 meters. In retrospect, I am in isolation when writing these lines, a pity we didn't swing anymore, except that it was spilled milk.

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In any case, a pickpocket who saw an older woman walking, following her to the writer, or lounging there for people like her had no choice but to leave the house, picking her up as she glanced at the meat fridge, taking advantage of her wait time at the cash register and stealing thousands of dollars.

How did he do it? Quite simply, he also stole her cellphone and changed one of the credit card code numbers so that the new password was sent to her cellphone, that is, his one.

The bastard, who probably targets many senior citizens now, stole thousands of shekels of cash for her and also applied for a large loan on her behalf. It was here that the writer's employees discovered their greatness, they helped her, reassured her and said they would check the cameras if the pickpocket saw them. The writer himself even helped her, despite all the other things that are probably sitting on his head now.

Even these days, as people in Israel and around the world are fighting for their lives, and many others are struggling for solidarity, there are the bad guys who exploit the empty public space, steal and steal from adults. Make easy money from the fact that there is hardly anyone who sees and there is no law and no one. That there is not enough threat to be seen by others and therefore one can be harmed by those who must go on Friday to buy some food alone.

Now this scoundrel, probably not doing anything in his life, has hurt my mother who, like many others, has done herself with her ten fingers, which represented religious feminism when the concept was still a crude word in our sector. That to this day leads a rich social life and does not let her older age beat her but the contrary, she wins the age.

And I'm just sitting here in isolation and bursting at the fact that that's what happens to us even during this hardship. That even today, while the Corona in the country is threatening us all, there are those who learn from the situation is not the love of others, not the weak, but how to steal money from older people.

In your life, look after your parents - and not just Corona.