The family of Oleg Yakubov, one of three construction workers killed in Monday’s Tel Aviv garage collapse, say his body is being held in the hospital as they do not have money for a funeral.
Yakubov, 60, immigrated from Uzbekistan to Israel 18 years ago, and lived in the working class Hatikvah neighborhood of Tel Aviv.
His widow Glina tells the Walla news site the family was told it needs to come with NIS 40,000 to pay for a burial plot.
“Where is the money? We don’t have it,” she says.
Soldiers in the IDF Home Front Command take part in the rescue effort at a collapsed parking garage in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Hahayal neighborhood on September 6, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
She tells the site that Oleg would always work so they had money, but they were always poor. While the two did not have kids together, they had children from a previous marriage, including a son who has been in a coma in a Tel Aviv hospital for 12 years.
“In any job he always worked hard with all his heart, for a tiny salary,” she says.
Police say also killed in the collapse were Denis Diatzniko, 28, from Ukraine and Ihad Ajhaj, 34, from the Palestinian town of Bet Rima.
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