DENVER (KDVR) — A Denver couple is headed to Israel to supply medical aid for the war-torn nation. Beginning subsequent week, Dr. Hanah Polotsky and her husband, Dr. Alex Polotsky, will likely be on the bottom, working with an ambulance crew in Jerusalem.
“Lots of physicians needed to volunteer to (go to) Israel, so we truly signed up on an extended listing. They’ve 11,000 volunteers, and fortuitously, the 2 of us have been chosen to go and trip the ambulances,” Hanah Polotsky informed FOX31.
They’ll be taking with them medical provides and donations for a number of the freed hostages.
The Polotskys have a detailed connection to the warfare: Their 19-year-old daughter is learning in Israel and was there on Oct. 7, when Hamas unleashed a terrorist assault on the nation that killed tons of. Greater than 200 others have been taken captive.
“It was extraordinarily scary the second I came upon, as a result of I had no clue,” Hanah Polotsky mentioned.
Violence has been in abundance for the Polotskys in current months. They’re each from the previous Soviet Union and have watched carefully what’s taking place again in Ukraine.
“It’s actually helped Putin take away consideration from Ukraine,” Hanah Polotsky mentioned.
Onerous to not really feel helpless by means of all of it, however like so many within the native Jewish neighborhood, they’ve finished what they’ll from a distance: elevating cash and donating items. However now, they’ll be hands-on, on the bottom, serving to the place they’re wanted.
They’re leaving their day jobs and their household again dwelling in Denver. However their teenage son couldn’t be extra proud.
“I’m not nervous about it, however I believe it’s simply superb how they’re in a position to make use of their expertise to volunteer to assist proper now,” Yoshi Polotsky mentioned.
“I believe it’s a tremendous alternative to contribute, and we dwell solely as soon as,” Alex Polotsky mentioned.
