"But really, why won’t Dad come home?” her children asked, when they overheard their mother detailing to us her crisis, during the home visit we paid them She obviously won’t tell them how he beat her,. or that she was severely abused for years on end until finally mustering up the courage to escape. She was left all alone, with 3 children, and a total monthly income of merely 5,600 NIS, half of which goes to pay rent!! And the apartment? It has no lighting in the kitchen, overrun with black mold, exposed outlets, the last place on earth to raise children! This is the price of being unable to write checks that won’t bounce, the result of spending “only” 50% of her income on rent while the rest is rationed for food. How can anyone see them in such despair, so eagerly awaiting assistance, and not help?