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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

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Russian grandmothers in costume at the Your Highness Grandmother Pageant (Gosha Shif/Be Proud Foundation)
July 25, 2020, 12:27 pm
Brooklyn’s babushkas keep spirits up despite beauty pageant’s COVID cancellation
Annual ‘Your Highness Grandmother’ event on hiatus until it’s safe for spunky Russian-speaking grandmothers to strut their stuff again on stage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Grandparents receive a visit from their grandchildren in Kfar Yona on April 21, 2020 (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
May 8, 2020, 3:04 pm
No hugs or kisses: Your guide to visiting grandma and grandpa
Health Ministry publishes guidelines on visiting the elderly after lifting of lockdown rules, urges family members to wear masks, maintain a distance and not touch
By ToI Staff
Gal Ohayon, 16, right, with his 89-year-old grandfather Yaakov Shkory, who have been spending the coronavirus crisis together.(Courtesy Facebook LIve screengrab)
May 5, 2020, 8:06 pm
Teen moves in with 89-year-old grandpa to care for him during crisis
16-year-old from Ashkelon joined his grandfather when the pandemic began, to keep him from being alone
By Jessica Steinberg
A woman wearing protection mask looks on through the window, at San Martin nursing home, where several elderly people were infected by coronavirus in Vitoria, northern Spain, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Spain will mobilize 200 billion euros or the equivalent to one fifth of the country's annual output in loans, credit guarantees and subsidies for workers and vulnerable citizens, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
March 25, 2020, 5:42 am
Virus tears families apart as children strive to protect elderly by staying away
‘It dawned on me last night that I may never see, kiss or touch my sick father again before he dies,’ says one distraught daughter
By Sue Surkes
Noam (top middle) and Tzippi Rimel (middle), who is holding her daughter Noam in a family photo in November 2019. (Courtesy)
December 20, 2019, 1:44 am
Deadly crash places grandparents in roles they weren’t supposed to replay
Four family members step up, still not knowing what lies ahead, after crash kills mother and infant baby and critically injures father and son
By Jacob Magid
Fertility specialist Dr David Smotrich in 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 9, 2018, 3:47 pm
Jewish doctor uses sperm taken 3 days after man’s death to give him heir
In highly unusual case, UK couple harvested son’s sperm and created a grandson using a donor egg and a surrogate, sidestepping several legal issues
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Border Police carry away a member of the "hilltop youth" during an evacuation of an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank. (Credit: Zman Emet, Kan 11)
July 10, 2018, 8:16 pm
Policeman indicted for assaulting settler teen who insulted his grandmother
Cop charged with repeatedly beating the youth, who made derogatory comments when the officers ordered him off West Bank illegal outpost
By Jacob Magid
Charles E. Savenor
June 17, 2018, 1:50 pm
Charles E. Savenor
‘You have to get a new daddy, Daddy’
My sons relate to my mom’s partner as if he’s my father, while my heart aches because they never met that man
Nurit Bachrach
November 3, 2017, 11:51 am
Nurit Bachrach
My birthland, my homeland
The ANZACS reenactment of the Battle of Beersheba threw me back in time to present Israel as my true inheritance
Sally Berkovic
April 28, 2017, 3:27 pm
Sally Berkovic
Parenting a lone soldier
When orphans marry, it’s small wonder that their child finds a large clan in the Jewish people
A photo of Asher and Irit Shahar with their son Omri taken before Omri's death in June 2012. (Courtesy)
January 31, 2017, 1:57 pm
Couple suffers setback in bid for grandchild from sperm of late soldier son
Irit and Asher Shahar vow to continue legal battle after state wins appeal against earlier precedent-setting ruling in their favor
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A photo of Asher and Irit Shahar with their son Omri taken before Omri's death in June 2012. (Courtesy)
November 16, 2016, 8:10 pm
Israeli couple wins right to produce and raise grandchild from fallen soldier son’s sperm
Irit and Asher Shahar set world precedent in fight to create progeny from naval officer son’s posthumously retrieved sperm. Omri spoke many times about wanting a large family, say parents
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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