Kimmy Yam is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
A Filipino caregiver in Israel says she feels it’s her “duty” to remain with her elderly employer, for whom she’s worked the last five months, despite the monumental tensions and instability in the region. Lourdes Levi, who works in-home night shifts in Tel Aviv for a 96-year-old man with Alzeheimer’s, told NBC News that, while she feels fear, she doesn’t plan on leaving the area, regardless of how dangerous conditions may become amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
Rockets can be heard flying overhead at times, she said. And she feels it’s her job to get her patient to safety. “When you’re inside the house, you feel like family. You need to protect them,” Levi said. “Suddenly the rockets will bomb and you need to put him in the wheelchair and you need to run to the bomb shelter. This is our life now.” The 65-year-old shuttles between her home in the northern city of Haifa and Tel Aviv, by train, to work 11-hour night shifts four times a week.
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