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Dead Alone: ​​Since the beginning of the year, 53 homeless seniors have been found lifeless in their homes.

Two of them today

Two elderly people who lived alone were found in their apartments today, days after their deaths.

In 2020, ZAKA volunteers were called to 158 events, describing that they were "exposed to the most difficult sights". The organization addresses neighbors and welfare bodies:

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Eli Ashkenazi

Sunday, 04 July 2021, 15:00

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Two retirees who lived alone were found dead in their apartments today (Sunday). An 82-year-old woman was found in an apartment in Bat Yam, after she had already died a few days ago. And later, a 75-year-old man was found lying in his house, about a week after his death. The case was reported after neighbors complained of a pungent odor. Since the outbreak of the corona plague, there has been a sharp rise in the number of cases in which destitute people have died in their apartments, without neighbors or state authorities providing them with any help that could have saved their lives. In most cases, these are elderly people who have lived alone.

According to Eliezer Smet of the ZAKA organization, there have been 53 cases so far since the beginning of the year, including 41 men and 11 women, in which people were found lifeless in their apartments. The bodies were found from a few days to whole weeks after death. 2020 The organization's volunteers were called to 158 incidents of elderly and destitute people found lying in their apartments in a state of decay. The causes of death are usually medical incidents or people who slipped in the house and were seriously injured, and in a few cases it was even suicides.

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"No one hears them in times of distress."

(Photo: ZKA)

"We appeal to families, neighbors and welfare agencies to pay attention to those individuals and to be vigilant," Samet read.

"These are people that no one hears in times of distress, and they die in severe, painful, sad and lonely torments."

"His people were just those who were interested in them and showed emotion for their situation, their deaths could have been prevented. Too many such cases end in death. Our volunteers say that any such case is unbearable, and pursues them weeks later. They are exposed to extremely difficult scenes," he said.

"Our call is that we will show mutual guarantee. After all, we are sending people to the ends of the earth to save lives, let's show sensitivity to our neighbor," Smet asked.

"Their deaths could have been prevented" (Photo: ZKA)

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In the video: of an 80-year-old girl who was rescued from her home after she fell (Photo: Israel Police spokeswoman)

Meanwhile, in a more optimistic case, an 80-year-old woman who lives alone in her apartment in Migdal Haemek, was shirtless this morning (Sunday) by a police officer who climbed to the window of her home.

The woman stumbled into the house and cried for help, and fortunately neighbors heard her cries and turned to police officers who were in the area on a routine patrol.

The two policemen immediately went to the house and recognized the apartment from which the shouts were heard.

They ordered MDA and firefighting forces, but in the meantime one of the policemen climbed a ladder to the window of the house. The elderly woman was conscious and he provided her with first aid. According to her, she tripped and fell and could not get up and stand. A. evacuated her to Haemek Hospital in Afula when she was in a light condition.

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