The victims of the Dolphinarium suicide bombing attack on June 1, in which 21 people were killed and some 120 were wounded, were mostly students - new immigrants from the CIS. As the school year draws near, the Ministerial Committee on Absorption and Immigration decided today on a series of steps to assist them.
Ten of the families of victims will receive a two-year government rent subsidy, funded by the National Insurance Institute, to permit them to rent a home closer to their child’s school. Others will receive state-funded transportation to and from school. Eight families that own apartments had their mortgages completely paid off by government agencies. Others were informed they would not be required to pay back the new-immigrant loans they were issued by the government.
Ruth Bar-On, director of the non-profit ‘Sela’ Organization that is assisting the former immigrants wounded in the blast, had words of praise for the government, particularly \"the inter-agency cooperation that exists for the collective good of the victims.\" She added that her organization had raised over NIS 1 million ($230,000) for distribution to the families. Each family that lost a loved one received NIS 20,000 ($4,700), while each wounded victim received between NIS 3,000 and NIS 7,000, according to the family\'s economic status.
Two of the Dolphinarium victims remain hospitalized in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, and three are undergoing rehabilitation in the Beit Levenstein Rehabilitation Hospital.
Ten of the families of victims will receive a two-year government rent subsidy, funded by the National Insurance Institute, to permit them to rent a home closer to their child’s school. Others will receive state-funded transportation to and from school. Eight families that own apartments had their mortgages completely paid off by government agencies. Others were informed they would not be required to pay back the new-immigrant loans they were issued by the government.
Ruth Bar-On, director of the non-profit ‘Sela’ Organization that is assisting the former immigrants wounded in the blast, had words of praise for the government, particularly \"the inter-agency cooperation that exists for the collective good of the victims.\" She added that her organization had raised over NIS 1 million ($230,000) for distribution to the families. Each family that lost a loved one received NIS 20,000 ($4,700), while each wounded victim received between NIS 3,000 and NIS 7,000, according to the family\'s economic status.
Two of the Dolphinarium victims remain hospitalized in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, and three are undergoing rehabilitation in the Beit Levenstein Rehabilitation Hospital.