Beit HaNasi announces with deep sorrow the passing of Nehama Rivlin ז"ל, the wife of President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin, this morning, Tuesday (4 June) at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. She was 73 when she died, shortly before her 74th birthday.
Nehama underwent a lung transplant three months ago on Monday, 11 March, 2019, an operation she needed due to the pulmonary fibrosis from which she suffered in recent years.
The president and family members would like to thank the entire staff of Beilinson Hospital for the dedicated, sensitive and professional treatment she received over the last few months, night and day, with an open heart.
In addition, the Rivlin family wishes to thank citizens of Israeli and the heads of the communities who have continued to ask after Nechama’s health, to send letters and wonderful children's drawings to the hospital and to Beit HaNasi, and to pray for her every day, every hour. Their love and concern gave the president and all members of the family strength and support that cannot be described in words.
The family's thanks go also to the Halabli family, who donated their late son Yair’s lung, for their inspiring nobility and wonderful deed.
We ask the general public and the media to allow the family to gather in mourning during these hours and to refrain from approaching the family directly.