Lidor Genza Experienced Clinical Death and Was in a Coma for a Whole Week Until

"Come quickly, Lidor is swaying here," Lidor's friend testifies about the moments of horror before his friend experienced a near-death experience. "I ran to him and saw that his eyes were almost rolling back and something was wrong." The friend testifies that afterwards Lidor's condition improved slightly, but shortly after, it deteriorated again to the point of death. "We saw him starting to convulse and then foam began to come out of his mouth."

Lidor Ganze, a 23-year-old secular young man, tells of the difficult event of the near-death experience he underwent after using drugs. He claims the drugs were introduced into water he drank without his knowledge, but in any case, the result was disastrous; his health condition deteriorated until he needed a miracle to return to life - a miracle that occurred only after he transferred five thousand euros for a pidyon nefesh (redemption of the soul) for needy families from the Shuvu Banim community, and after the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a arrived at his hospital bedside.

Critical medical condition that lasted a long time

The case was known in the immediate circle of Rav Berland shlit"a, but gained great momentum after it was published in an investigation by the '7 Days' section of 'Yedioth Ahronoth'. There, Marcel Ganze, Lidor's mother, also recounts, "The head of the trauma unit came out and said to me, 'We are now fighting for his life, 42 degrees fever, three hours, we cannot lower it.' The heart doctor also came out to me and told me they were moving him to the cardiac intensive care unit, opening his heart, pushing electricity so the heart would start to beat."

"I said to him: 'So what are you telling me? That my son is dead? Be direct like that, don't hide it from me.' I started screaming there. For long days Lidor was left sedated and ventilated and did not respond to the doctors' attempts to wake him. At some point, recalls Marcel (as brought in the Yedioth article), a doctor came to me and said, 'You know that the situation is not good?' I looked at him with a glazed look and didn't listen. I refused to believe that my son would not return to me."

After a week of critical condition, they turn to Rav Berland

"Lidor's friends decided to take action. Shlomi Galem recounts: 'On Lidor's fourth day in the hospital, we contacted the assistant of Rav Berland, just before he was supposed to fly to Uman. The assistant went to the Rav and told him, 'A boy was with his friends at a party, took drugs, and cannot wake up.' The Rav immediately told him, 'Five thousand euros for a pidyon nefesh and he will wake up by Saturday.'"

"We said, 'What five thousand euros? It's hard to bring 21 thousand [shekels], for what? Why?' But then we spoke with many friends, we did a fundraiser on the internet, and we managed to raise the money. We scheduled with the Rav for six in the morning on Friday. We arrived in the morning, and then a miracle simply happened; the Rav just entered the hospital, and Lidor opened his eyes. The Rav entered his room, read chapters of Psalms there, and performed a ceremony that I don't understand. At the end, he said, 'By tomorrow Lidor will wake up.' On Saturday night, Lidor's father called us and told us, 'Lidor woke up.' I remember how we all jumped like crazy."

The sights Lidor saw during the near-death experience

"I had a movie running of my life," Lidor says about the sights he saw during the near-death experience. "At age two I had an accident, a car hit me, I see it, then school, from first grade to ninth grade, then the military boarding school. After my whole life passed, suddenly everything changed to a red screen, I didn't go to it, and then suddenly there was a big flash, a white screen, and I went to it and woke up in the hospital. I tell this to people and they think I'm crazy, but that's what happened. I didn't even know I had been lying there for a week; I was sure I woke up after a few hours."

In an interview conducted with Natan Edri (055-677-0330), the gabbai of the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, Lidor said to the camera:

"Medically, I arrived at the hospital with one percent oxygen in my brain. Failure of all body systems, nothing working, not the kidneys, not the liver, not the heart. For every day there was another deficiency of the body that didn't respond."

"They called the Rav (Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a) to come, I don't know exactly how, I was unconscious then. They did a pidyon nefesh for me from donations of people, the next day my heart function returned. Rav Berland said that by Saturday I would wake up, and so it was. On Saturday I saw a great light and I woke up. Exactly as Rav Berland said would happen, so it happened."