Jerusalem – A well-known Israeli charity organizer has passed away at the age of 90.
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The Times of Israel (http://bit.ly/1iP4brZ) reports that Rebbetzin Bracha Kapach, who won the Israel Prize in 1999 for work assisting the needy, died in Jerusalem on Tuesday. She was 90 years old.
Kapach directed a charity out of her home for about 50 years in the Nahlaot neighborhood in Jerusalem. Her private charity delivered more then 1400 care packages weekly to the poor before the Sabbath, and on holidays.
In 1941, Kapach emigrated from Yemen with her husband, Rabbi Yosef Kapach, who also won the Israel Prize in 1969 for rabbinic scholarship. When the rabbi’s wife won in 1999, he was still alive, and the couple became the only married couple to both receive the award.
The Israel Prize is considered by most to be one of Israel’s uppermost civil honors.
bde. and let her plead for moshiach for us
May we continue to give tzedakah in the merit of her great tzedakah.
Unassuming and kind – what a refreshing model.
What a great couple! Her late husband was a very learned man, who is known especially for his work on the Rambam.