Neve Hofi Cohen from Tiberias and her father Amar from Migdal Haemek contracted the virus and were sent to a hotel in Tel Aviv • When they were released, they kept in touch and in August they will get married.
Neve Hofi Cohen and her father Amar
Photo:
Gil Eliyahu, Ginny
Something good came out of the Corona:
Neve Hofi Cohen (29) from Tiberias and Avia Amar (25) from Migdal Haemek, who knew the Corona Hotel in Tel Aviv, will get married this summer.
A year has passed since Naveh and her father fell ill in Corona.
The two were sent to the first Corona hotel established in Israel at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Tel Aviv, where they first met.
In the year since, another 780,000 Israelis have been added to Corona, but amid all the sadness and enormous damage caused by the plague, the story of the two and the place they chose to marry - Ganei Ayalon in Tiberias, sheds great light and symbolizes hope for the end of the difficult historical period.
"Because everyone there was sick, we could be together in certain areas of the hotel, such as a hall where there was a projector and an entertainment system," says Naveh.
"We met in the hall, but as Shabbat approaches you naturally approach the people who keep Shabbat. There was a connection between us with another 10-7 people. When we were released we kept in touch with the WhatsApp group we opened and after a month and a half we arranged a meeting with the guys in Jerusalem. "The only ones from the group who lived in the north, we decided to travel together. During that day, we suddenly realized that a deeper bond had been formed between us that was beyond mere friendship."
The vaccination campaign continues // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon
Yesterday, the two showed up at the Ganei Ayalon events complex in Tiberias, which last year was almost completely closed.
When the vaccination campaign began and as part of the economic survival war imposed by the plague, the place was rented out and today serves as the corona vaccine complex of Clalit Health Fund in Tiberias.
"We invested millions of shekels in renovations that lasted two months, and at the end of February last year we managed to do a few events and then closed, after the corona broke in the country. Since then and throughout the year we did 5-4 events in total," said Iris Ofer, the hall's events director.
"Now the event complexes will be allowed to open with restrictions and I hope that by August, until the wedding of Neve and her father, everything will pass and we will be able to hold the wedding without any restrictions."
