Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson donated 160 scooters to disabled Israeli veterans.
At a moving ceremony which took place at Tel Aviv’s Beit Halochem, 160 members of the ZDVO were the happy recipients of a motorized scooter, donated by Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson through the Friends of the ZDVO in Israel.
“The scooter is my legs, it is what will enable me after many difficult years, to be mobile with ease, over long distances, something that until today was almost impossible for me to do,” said 53-year-old Nissim Ben Shabat, a combatant wounded in the First Lebanon War (1982) when the headquarters in the City of Tyre collapsed. Among the recipients was Roni Gozlan, a 43-year-old former Border Policeman who lost both his legs in 2002 when he threw himself on a terrorist who then blew himself up.
The youngest veteran to receive a motorized scooter was 38 years old, the oldest was 90 years old.
The Adelsons visited Tel Aviv’s Beit Halochem six months ago when they attended the inauguration ceremony of the new Hydrotherapy Pool generously donated by them. It was during this visit that they made up their minds to find a way to help disabled veterans with mobility difficulties.
Chairman of Friends of the ZDVO in Israel Major General (res.) Elyezer Shkedy thanked the Adelsons for their generous donation and emphasized its great contribution to the improvement of their everyday lives.
Disabled Israeli veterans with their new scooters.