On February 29, Chana became one of 600 Israelis evacuated from Beit Shemesh to four hotels in Jerusalem. Beit Shemesh suffered severe damage from missile strikes on Sunday morning, which killed nine people and caused massive destruction.

Chana lived about 300 feet from the homes that the missile hit. The house she has lived in for the past 45 years is now uninhabitable. Her husband suffers from dementia and keeps asking her to take him home. But Chana and her husband will need to live in a hotel for the foreseeable future.

Representatives from The Jewish Agency came to visit her at the hotel to provide financial assistance and to relay the message that she is not alone and that Jews around the world are thinking about her and her family.

Between tears, she said this brings her right back to October 7 when she saw members of kibbutzim being evacuated to hotels after their communities were ravaged by the attacks. But she never imagined that two and a half years later, it would be her being evacuated to a hotel after her community was devastated by rockets.