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If a young woman claims: A landlord refused to rent after hearing that I was a widow

Yuval Yifrach, 25, lost her husband in a motorcycle accident two months ago, and has since been looking for an apartment with her mother, also a widow, her little sister and her baby daughter.

She said various property owners stopped contacting them after hearing about their marital status.

Listen to a conversation recording with one of them

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Sapir Levy

Thursday, 02 September 2021, 15:48 Updated: 15:50

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In the video: A conversation between a landlord and a tenant (Walla system!)

An owner of an apartment in Rehovot refused to rent it to a young single mother and her mother after hearing that they were widows - according to documentation obtained by Walla !. The young woman, 25-year-old Lior Yifrach, lost her husband Yuval in a motorcycle accident two months ago, and has since been looking for an apartment with her sister who is in seventh grade, her one-year-old daughter and ten months and her mother. According to her, this was not the only case in which they refused to rent her a property due to her marital status. Today (Thursday) she was forced to vacate her apartment in the city, with no solution in hand.

In the recording,

a three-room

apartment owner is

heard

claiming she will be small for them, after asking the mother about her marital status. This, while in the background is heard a woman who was with him intervening in his favor.

Lior's mother

: "When can I come and see the apartment?".

Landlord

: "What is your family situation?".

Lior's mother

: "Is this important for my family situation?".

Landlord: "Yes, yes."

Lior's mother

: "Why do you decide it's going to be small for me?".

A woman in the background

: "Because this is my apartment and I decide."

Lior's mother

: "I can get by with small rooms."

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A widow and her mother encountered refusals.

Rehovot (Photo: Reuven Castro)

According to Lior, she and her mother, a widow herself, encounter harsh remarks from apartment owners. "Some of the apartment owners ask us about the marital status already on the phone," she shared. "I still do not know where I am sleeping tonight, maybe a friend of my mother's will help us," Lior said. "If my husband was alive, we would find an apartment in an instant. He would tick everything for me. I never had to worry."

"In another story, I arrived at a really nice apartment on the streets and a married couple also came who saw the apartment at the same time. I left the apartment and texted the landlord the ID and he immediately replied that it was no longer relevant. This after he understood my status," she said.

"I'm trying to understand the head of the landlords. Apparently they are afraid, but my mother has an apartment named after her, my mother works and I start working with the help of the name another month after the girl enters kindergarten. This is the thing that disqualifies us straight away. "I understand the concern, but I have good guarantors who are willing to sign for me. I have a bank account. All right, I have never been in the red, I have checks. I'm fine, I should not be scared of me because I am a widow."

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