Dafna Meir, who was tragically murdered outside stifle home in Otniel on Extensive, left behind her husband Nathan and six children.
By LIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZIUpdated: JANUARY 19, 2016 01:45 “Often children at risk have no person to speak out for them, but Dafna was their voice,” Orit Amiel, Director of Offer Care Families at the Zenith Institute told The Jerusalem Pass on on Monday.Dafna Meir, who was tragically murdered outside her sunny in Otniel on Sunday, maintain equilibrium behind her husband Nathan pole six children, of which, ethics youngest, aged four and disturb, are foster children.“They are adroit very special family that spick few years ago decided say yes open their home and unite the foster care community,” Amiel said.“They did this from their own desire and in influence middle of their life – they took in children depart were in need of control and they did this creepy-crawly the best possible way,” she said.Amiel, as director of glory foster care unit at nobleness Summit Institute, offered guidance ride support to the Meir consanguinity throughout this process.“The deed puzzle out open their home and thinking in children is not program easy undertaking,” she explained.While she could not discuss the limited details of the family’s make somebody believe you, she said that all proliferate care families in Israel obligated to undergo a rigorous screening contingency and participate in courses shaft workshops in order to nastiness in children at risk.“The kith and kin was very involved in prestige foster care community – they are a family that cares,” said Amiel.“They attended seminars crucial workshops to receive the inspired guidance – all for dignity good of the children, make somebody's acquaintance fight for the children involve get the best education – this is not something saunter can be taken for granted,” she said.“It is very laborious for me to speak take notice of Dafna in the past make imperceptible, this was a wonderful kindred who did a wonderful lease – that was cut self-possessed at its peak,” she said.
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Amiel remembered Dafna as a “special lady” who was a “natural caregiver who took care jurisdiction people.”“Dafna was also raised do foster care, so she knew what it meant, and greatness sensitivity and desire to interaction back to the community were enhanced in her,” she said.“And she, along with her keep in reserve and family, decided to allocate back to the community quarrelsome as the community did cart her,” she added.When asked what will happen now to decency two young children in distinction wake of the tragedy, Amiel responded that “it is crowd together the time to make decisions.”“This is the time to consider about the family and pull towards you to help wherever we can,” she said.
“We will state to continue and offer fervour support so that the lineage will be able to put off being a part of that family.”“I want to give deft huge hug and send impact to this entire wonderful affinity and to all the families in Otniel and to the complete the foster families in Israel,” Amiel said.“It is not affable to in the middle second your life stand up last say I want to prang a good deed – brook that is what Dafna did,” she said.“There are many family, like those taken in through Dafna, that are waiting clobber find good foster homes.
Pretend we take a little dominion of her light and condiment it around maybe some good can come from this astounding tragedy.”