Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl Director Dies

I am sad to report that Rabbi Yossie Raichik, director of the charity organization Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl, died today due to complications from a lung infection. Raichik was 55 years old.

After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Raichik moved to Israel to help facilitate the airlifting of children hardest hit by the Chernobyl accident. Since the organization’s founding in 1989, Children of Chernobyl has brought more than 2,500 children and 1,700 parents from the Chernobyl area to live in Israel.

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