The Nation - News from Jan. 25, 1989

Yisroel Soloveichik, the 12-year-old boy who was the subject of a legal battle between his mother and father over his medical care, died of brain cancer at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. Yisroel’s death came the same day his parents had returned to court to continue their argument over treatment of the boy. Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas O’Brien last Thursday ruled that the boy’s mother, Miriam Soloveichik, would make all decisions regarding her son’s medical care. She had sought to avoid further surgery on the boy in his dying days. Yisroel’s father, Moshe Soloveichik, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, wanted to do everything possible to keep his son alive.