Yehuda Bilog, 14, is laid to rest in the city's non-Jewish cemetery.

Sad end: At this time, the funeral of the late Yehuda Bilog, which was drowning last week on the shores of the city, is being held.

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As we recall, this past August was about to be celebrated on August 15, he drowned on the rainbow beach in Ashdod last Wednesday, and his body was found on Friday at Sea Y in the southern city, a few miles from the drowning site. However, as stated, due to the fact that parents Chris and Joy are not citizens, and whose application for citizenship has not yet been approved, they are not eligible for funeral financing for their only son from the state's Social Security funds.

As a result, as mentioned above, parents in the division enlisted for them and they started fundraising through the Paybox app. One of the mothers who enlisted to help stated that the child's parents are in a mental state and are forced to fund a private burial, so the community of De Shalit is recruiting to help them in burial matters and the situation has meanwhile learned that many students who were members of the school bench as well as students from the upper tier began donating.

This morning, a representative of the religious council in Ashdod, who handles the boy's burial, announced: "We will absorb the cost of the funeral and burial of Yehuda Bilog at our expense. In the case of lack of Israeli citizenship the cost is 50,000, but the family will not have to pay that amount."