By COLlive reporter
Rabbi Eitan Pizem, Director of the Chabad Yeshiva in Israel’s northern Krayot, headed to the Discount Bank this past week to deposit tuition checks.
Accompanied by his nephew, Asher Pizem, the rabbi discovered a security breach.
“We walked into the lobby where there are ATM’s, but the door to the bank itself was buzzing,” he recalled.
“The whole place was lit up and no one was there. We tried to open the door, and it was unlocked.”
The two Lubavitchers rushed to call the emergency number, but the bank representative who answered didn’t sound alarmed.
“I’m not in charge of this,” the man told the good samaritans. “I’ll give you a another number, you should call them.”
The two didn’t waste time and called the police, who arrived immediately, amazed to find the bank open and vulnerable to intruders.
Only after the police took charge of the situation did the bank personell arrive to lock the doors.
A spokesman from Discount Bank confirmed the story and thanked the two for their help.
“Thanks to the awareness of the two citizens, a security guard arrived and locked the door until the problem could be fixed the next morning.”
ive walked into a bank on a sunday afternoon thinking it was open and waited for someone to call me to the counter. the lights were all off and each tellers booth said “closed”. i walked outside and told the cops and left.
not a big story, should it have been posted here too?
i no some ppl just get juelus when the dont get the fame!!
Interesting article.
Just that the phrase ‘good samaritans’ is misplaced.
The ‘mashal’ of the good samaritan is from an extreme non-jewish source, and is btw supposed to show that sometimes even our enemies may be moved to compassion for us; wishful thinking. It’s totally out of place in an otherwise good article.
your point is well taken, however:
this site is not made to make lubavitch look good. it is a gossip site, with news that involve lubavitchers.
this story would be here even if it was a non-shliach.
perhaps you are confusing this site with lubavitch.com or chabad.org
this is another one of the ‘news’ items that makes lubavitch look bad just by reporting the obvious as if it deserves some special recognition.
I have seen someone do worse and report as if the shlilach did some heroic act by doing this when in reality anyone who would not do this is just a irresponsible citizen at best or a crook at worst