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Help and rescue
The best thing I have been doing until recently... I was getting a lot of help and blessing from a special office called CFI, the Christian Friends of Israel. They work especially with new immigrants, to bring food and clothes, materials, eyeglasses, health. Anyone coming as a migrant from Russia or Ethiopia, anywhere, they give them six months' support and help, to learn the language and stay. From that office I used to collect at least one or two tons of clothes monthly, to give to the poor, the the Bedouin, for their needs, and that's a really big blessing.
That was when I was working [as a telephone engineer]. But then they brought the new technology, and the [fibre-optic] cables, and they didn't need us any more to maintain the phones, and so a few thousand workers were retired early, at 50, and because of that cable technology, which America sent to us, we lost our jobs. The cable is something good for the future, but it meant a lot of workers lost their jobs.
That's why I stopped work, so I don't have that kind of income to cover everyone's needs, to pay for my bills and my life, and I don't can do the help that I did before, when I had a good income, to help and support others. It is the first time I have never had a car in my life, these last five years. So I now try to help people in other ways.
But always I need a car to take all the stuff to help people's needs. Now I have to rent or borrow a car. But I am still doing good, thank God. I still help people with their needs. I believe one day God will send someone to help me have a car, and put it in front of the house, to help me go on.