Hadassah-Achotenu student Miriam had completed her Mechina preparatory year and was scheduled to start nursing studies last October as part of the program's seventh cohort.
Instead, Miriam was called up to the IDF to serve her country in the war.
On a brief visit home, Miriam took the opportunity to surprise her mother at work, where she is part of the maintenance team.
The pictures of their moving reunion brought many to tears.
This emotional meeting reminds us of how the Achotenu program came to be - it was through a conversation between program founder Rav Rimon and a hospital maintenance worker. At the time, the Ethiopian-Israeli hospital worker told Rav Rimon that she would have loved to have been a nurse, but language and culture gaps, as well as lack of finances, had made it impossible. She dreamed of a different, far better future for her own children. The seeds of Achotenu were sown with that conversation, providing a pathway for the realisation of that dream.