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10 NOVEMBER 2022/16 CHESHVAN 5783
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Shalom Sofer z”l, 63, has died from injuries sustained in a West Bank stabbing attack last month. Shalom had left hospital but died a few days later.The IDF captured the Palestinian terrorist after a manhunt. Isa Brysh, a member of Jewish Care Holocaust Survivors’ Centre at their Kristallnacht commemoration
Shalom Sofer z”l
Members of Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre at the Michael Sobell Jewish Community Centre lit candles to remember and commemorate those who lost their lives during Kristallnacht.
First yahrzeit for Alta BY DAVID SAFFER
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The family of Alta Fixsler marked the first yahrzeit of her tragic death on Monday (12 Cheshvan). Alta fought heroically during an extensive legal battle over her medical treatment before passing away after palliative care at a Manchester hospice on the 19th October 2021. The two-year-old suffered a serious brain injury at birth in December 2018 but miraculously survived. Hopes she may come home hit complications and the hospital advised removal of support but Alta’s parents demanded private support at home or abroad, both viable. A fundraising campaign took place for Alta’s care while her family took her case to courts and Gov- The Fixsler family ernments around the world. Israel President Reuven Rivlin and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein joined the quest for Alta to be treated in Israel in preference to palliative care. And 10 US Senators, including Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, wrote to US President Joe Biden to advocate to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on behalf of the Fixsler family. Alta, an American citizen, was cared for at
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Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Over 41,000 people responded to a Jewish Weekly petition launched to allow a leave of appeal to enable Alta to be treated by an Israeli or American hospital. When Justice Alistair MacDonald ruled life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn, Alta’s family wanted her to be transferred to an Israel or an American hospital
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care on religious and ethical grounds. With time running out to save Alta, Rivlin appealed to Prince Charles to help Alta’s parents’ request. Edelstein appealed to Health Secretary Matt Hancock on the family’s behalf. According to Israeli law where parents oppose cessation of medical treatment leading to a child’s death and life expectancy exceeds six months, medical treatment must not cease. Tragically, all efforts failed. Her life support was turned off after the UK High Court ruled earlier in 2021 that it was in her “best interests” as she had “no prospect of recovery.” It was reported that Alta’s PHOTO: COURTESY parents kissed her as she was taken off life machine with a minyan reciting prayers surrounded her bed. Alta reportedly survived 90 minutes before she died. The Jewish Weekly wishes the Fixsler family a long life and only simchas in the future. To read more about Alta’s inspiring story and see how people are capable of doing so much more for sick children around the world, go online at: www.altafixsler.org