JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Hundreds of mourners gathered at Kfar Etzion, south of Jerusalem, Tuesday, at the Levaya of Leah (Lucy) Dee, one of three victims murdered in the Jordan Valley terrorist shooting attack last Friday. Dee survived the initial attack and was in very serious condition, succumbing to her wounds Monday.
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During the funeral, one of Dee’s surviving daughters, Keren, eulogized her mother saying that: “Losing a mother is like losing a life. We worked on our relationship until we became best friends. There is no one to tell us what to do anymore. A hole has been created that cannot be filled. Mom, you were everything.”
Tal Dee, Lucy Dee’s other surviving daughter, said: “I need you. You are taking care of Maia and Rina now, but who will take care of us?”
“I need you. You are taking care of Maia and Rina now, but who will take care of us?”
Dee’s brother said that his sister had “decided to give back to the community in the way she knew best, by teaching English classes and by cooking for new mothers and volunteers.”
Leo Dee was the last one to give a Hesped today. This is how he started his hesped.
"First…" he began,
"The community is asked to say these words along with me…"
You can't see the thousands of other behind me. But trust me, they were all singing along as well. pic.twitter.com/p9PcPyzPNp
— Yonah Rossman (@YonahRossman) April 11, 2023
Two days ago, Lee’s 20-year-old daughter, Maia, and her 16-year-old daughter, Rina, were laid to rest at the Kfar Etzion Cemetery.
Dee’s two daughters were killed in Friday’s attack, while Lee was critically wounded, succumbing to her wounds on Monday.
Dee, 48, was an English teacher at the Orot Yehuda Bnei Akiva school in Efrat.
After her death, Dee’s husband, Rabbi Leo Dee, and her three surviving children agreed to donate her organs. Five people have already benefited from the organs, with her heart going to a 51-yr-old woman, her liver to a 25-yr-old woman, a kidney to a 58 year-old man another kidney to a 39-year-old man (Beilinson hospital) and her lungs to a 58 year-old woman (Sheba hospital). Mrs. Dee’s corneas have also been donated and will be transplanted into other people.
What a beautiful deed – giving life to others, while her own life was taken. May it be a huge Zichus for her Neshuma to do this one last great deed on this earth
May these three Holy Neshamas who perished al Kiddush HaShem watch over and protect their family and all of Klal Yisroel. They should know that all of Klal Yisroel mourns with them & shares their Tzar.Hashem yinkom damam
Not a word from POTUS or his drek administration. Not a word from the EU. It just goes to prove how disingenuous they are at the other times they do open their mouths when the cards are reversed. They are not our friends. Blinkin’ Blinken is mum as is Nides. It shows how phoney they are.
One thought, when a person is murdered al kiddush hashem, , the guf rises to a dif. Sphere of kedusha and there is no kitrug and dinim..its quite possible that there is makom…in this case, and for sure not to be laag lemais chazal say in a number of places that hashem yinkom damam means hashems wrath is awakend on the sonei yisroel