The Kol Rina New Agency - named in memory of the founder's wife, murdered by terrorists - is now engaged in helping those in need, particularly a 12-year-old cancer patient.

Nearly ten years ago, free-lance journalist Chaim Didovsky was living with his family in the Jewish town of Beit Haggai, in southern Judea, when he and his neighbors found themselves increasingly under the gun of Palestinian terrorist activities.  With his news instinct and zeal, Chaim soon became the best and quickest source of security-related news in the area - and he founded his own news agency: HaKol MeHaShetach, the Voice from the Field.

Shortly after the Olso War began in late September 2000, Chaim's reporting turned into a personal nightmare: He arrived on the scene of a fatal terrorist shooting attack, and found that one of the two victims was none other than his wife Rina. She and another teacher on their way to school in Kiryat Arba had been shot to death by Palestinian terrorists. 

His current project: A 12-year-old girl named Esther who is fighting for her life.

While trying to help himself and his six children pick up the pieces of their shattered lives, Chaim changed the name of his agency to Kol Rina in his wife's memory.  He also organized the writing of a Torah scroll in her name. 

Today, Kol Rina is an officially recognized association that continues to disseminate news - but concentrates even more on helping the needy.  "I decided that I want to memorialize Rina in the way in which she lived her life," Chaim told Arutz-7, "and that is by doing good for others."

Specifically, Didovsky explained, "I have been in contact with Schneider Children's Hospital in Petach Tikvah, and this is how we found out about the current case on which we are working: A 12-year-old girl named Esther who is fighting for her life.  She has a large growth in her head, and though there is a medicine that will help decrease the size of the growth, it is tremendously expensive.  Its official price is nearly 40,000 shekels a month (over $10,000) for about ten monthly doses; I am able to get it for about half that amount, but this is still a prohibitive expense.  We have to obtain this sum each month; the alternative is liable to be that she stops living."

Didovsky explained that the medicine is not included in the basket of government-sponsored medicines, "because it is still categorized as an experimental drug - though we know that it is helping Esther.  The hospital itself has asked me to help raise the money."

About a year ago, Kol Rina donated to Schneider Hospital a special screen, at a cost of 20,000 shekels, that enables doctors to see and identify even very tiny growths.

To participate in the campaign to raise 20,000 shekels each month for the medicine that will keep Esther alive, email can be sent here.  Checks can be sent to Kol Rina, POB 706, Elkanah 44814, Israel, and credit card payments can be made by phone to number 050-864-9982 (from abroad, replace the leading zero with the international access code and then Israel's country code, 972).