Bourse Volunteers Hold Dinner For Soldiers

The special event took place in the rehabilitation department of the Sheba hospital in Tel Hashomer hospital; the volunteers got the well-known Dr Shakshuka restaurant to send the best of its meals for the wounded soldiers of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.

Even with the fighting over and a ceasefire in effect, there are those who have not forgotten the soldiers wounded in Operation Protective Edge for whom the real war starts now.

Volunteers from the Israel Diamond Exchange last week held a family dinner for about 100 soldiers who were wounded in battle and are hospitalized in the rehabilitation department at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer hospital.

The volunteers brought in Bino Gabso, aka Dr. Shakshuka, who sent the best meals from his kitchen to the hospital. The whole group – the wounded with their parents and volunteers of the IDE – enjoyed a wonderful experience that included dinner, songs, laughter and lots of stories.

During Operation Protective Edge, IDE members initiated fundraising on behalf of the soldiers, raising money for the soldiers who fought in the Gaza Strip. These fundraising events joined other IDE initiatives on behalf of the soldiers, in which several trucks were sent to the South loaded with personal equipment for soldiers.

This was the third time that Israel Diamond Exchange volunteers had gone to Tel Hashomer hospital to visit the wounded soldiers. Female exchange volunteers visit the wounded soldiers and take care of items they are missing and pay particular attention to lone soldiers who families live abroad wounded in the operation and who do not have family members to visit and care for them.

The IDE's Volunteers Forum said: "We're going to continue this activity, particularly now that the truce has come into effect and the operation has ended. For the wounded soldiers and their families, the real war begins now, and we're going to be with them in their struggle, to hug them, accompany them, assist and support them as much as we can for as long as they need us."