Eli and Gitty Beer relive the miracle of recovery and return
Around the world, people were praying for the refuah sheleimah of Hatzolah’s Eli Beer. When he finally walked down the steps of the Adelson family’s private jet after nearly succumbing to the killer virus, it was, says his wife, like witnessing techiyas hameisim
By now, everyone has surely seen, or at least heard about, the image of indefatigable Israel’s Ichud Hatzolah founder and head Eli Beer walking off the plane at Ben Gurion airport, after surviving a critical bout of COVID-19 which nearly left him as another tragic corona statistic.
And for his wife, Gitty Beer, an ambulance driver and Hatzolah medic herself who was on the tarmac to bring him home while surrounded by an orange sea of Hatzolah vehicles, it was like techiyas hameisim.
Gitty told Mishpacha she’s used to Eli being gone for months at a time — he spends about 200 days a year abroad raising funds for Hatzolah and helping create emergency medical services around the world similar to Israel’s most sophisticated and well-oiled rapid emergency medical first response service (“Our kids call him avinu shebashamayim”) and had been gone since Chanukah — but who would imagine that her young, healthy, hyperenergetic husband would be felled by a microscopic virus, unconscious for over a month, fighting for his life in a Miami hospital?
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