Yitzhak Lerner suffers from a very severe disease, and has been treated by Prof. Tova Chijek, head of the department of internal medicine at Hadassah.

Yesterday morning, his condition deteriorated and he was moved into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). His daughter Michal, who was expected to get married next week, decided to do it immediately to let her dying father participate in her wedding. Hadassah responded and arranged the place within an hour.
The empty room on the ground floor that used to be a general (ICU) was selected, only after Prof. David Linton checked and made sure that he could still operate a (ICU) ventilator there. The room was cleaned up, chairs were brought in, the family and friends gathered bringing wine and refreshments, a rabbi arrived, a wedding canopy  was set up, and then Yitzhak Lerner was wheeled in on his bed, wearing an oxygen mask on his face, with Prof. Linton and  nurse Luda Soslowitz watching him closely.

By that time no one in the room could stay indifferent. Yitzhak's body was shivering out of excitement, and he needed to take off his oxygen mask from time to time in order to wipe his eyes. During this time, the groom and his friends were singing and dancing as if they were in a regular wedding hall. The singing became louder and the dancing went faster, and then everyone went silent as Michal entered the room wearing her white bride dress.

The wedding ceremony went on according to Jewish religious rules.  After a short while, the young couple was properly married, and the sick father was taken back to the original medical (ICU), where Prof. Linton and his team continued to fight for his life. This morning the prognosis was not optimistic.