JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Following the great miracles that occurred at the missile impact site in the Gur community in Arad on Motzei Shabbos, Rabbi Nechemia Alter, son of the Admor of Gur, arrived on Sunday on behalf of his father to visit the community that suffered the worst impact and was nearly the scene of a much larger disaster reminiscent of the Meron disaster, G-d forbid.

The Rebbe’s son toured the site together with Motti Babchik, a senior figure in the Hasidic community, and with officials from the Home Front Command at the location where the missile struck. Nine buildings were damaged in the attack, three irreparably, and nearly 100 people were injured but there were no fatalities despite the extensive damage.

Afterward, Rabbi Nechemia participated in a gathering of support and guidance with rabbis, heads of institutions, and administrators of the Gur community. A fundraising dinner was also held for Gur benefactors from the United States, who joined via Zoom and donated 7,500 shekels per person for those in the immediate circle affected, and 2,500 shekels for those in the secondary circle. In total, 220 people were affected in the first circle.

During his remarks at the gathering, Rabbi Nechemia revealed that his father, the Admor of Gur, had sensed the impending disaster several hours earlier:
“The Rebbe entered after Havdalah on Saturday night, and they told him about what was happening in Dimona (where a missile had fallen and where Gur Hasidim also live). The Rebbe immediately asked: ‘What’s happening in Arad?’ They told him it was quiet there. Shortly afterward, one of the family members said: ‘The Rebbe doesn’t look well; he seems under pressure,’ and the Rebbe said everything was fine. At one in the morning, when I spoke with the Admor, he said: ‘I could have told them earlier what I felt before, but I can’t tell them everything.’”

After the visit to Arad, the Rebbe’s son traveled to Beersheba to visit Soroka Medical Center, where he met with the injured, including a 3-year-old boy who had fallen from the fourth floor in Arad.

The child had been thrown by the blast wave and was trapped under the rubble. When his family later found him at the hospital, he said: “I didn’t get hurt at all, people just suddenly came and took me in an ambulance.”

Last night, there was also great joy in the child’s family, as his mother gave birth, in good time and with good fortune, to another baby boy.