16.09.2011                      17.Elul, 5771

Einwanderung:

Mother with terminal illness achieves dream

Twenty-eight-year-old Meira Riemer is overjoyed to receive citizenship, though she knows she won’t live long enough to hold it for long.

Twenty-eight-year-old Meira Riemer was overjoyed to receive her Israeli identity card in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, even though she knows she won’t live long enough to hold it for long.
The courageous married woman and mother of a four-year-old daughter had been diagnosed in the US 18 months ago with advanced sarcoma (bone cancer) and underwent treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. But when it failed, she and her husband, Danny, and daughter Eliana came to Jerusalem to try experimental treatment at Hadassah University Medical Center that was unavailable in the US….