(Left) Dana Pinhasov and her son at his induction. (Right) Kids of Courage spent an afternoon at a Toronto-area day camp prior to their three-week overnight camp experience.
By Hannah Alberga
Published in The Canadian Jewish News, Aug. 16, 2018
In February 1996, Dana Pinhasov, who was 21 at the time, boarded a bus near her home in Jerusalem, to return to her military base. As the bus neared the Jaffa Gate, a suicide bomber boarded and set off a 10-kilogram bomb. Pinhasov’s seat was on top of the gas tank. After months of hospitalization, 17 surgeries and extensive rehabilitation at the Beit Halochem Center in Jerusalem, which provides care to disabled veterans, she started to recover.
Two years later, Pinhasov became the first woman on the national board of directors of Beit Halochem Israel. In 2014, she partnered with Be it Halochem Canada, to launch Kids of Courage, a program that brings 50 children of disabled Israeli veterans to attend summer camp in Canada for four weeks.
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