Jerusalem: Indian nanny Sandra Samuel, whose brave action saved a two-year-old Israeli toddler from a Jewish centre sieged by terrorists in Mumbai, may get an immigration permit to live in Israel.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livnitold the Israeli Cabinet yesterday that her ministry is working to bring Sandra Samuel to Israel. The toddler's parents, who were serving at the Chabad House or Nariman House in Mumbai as the emissaries of the movement, were killed in the audacious attack.

Chairman of religious movement, Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Aharonov, has requested the Israeli government to allow the Indian caretaker to immigrate. Sandra grabbed the toddler, who turned two on Saturday, as terrorists stormed the ultra-Orthodox centre and escaped with him in her arms.

"I've spoken to the people in India. We've asked them to arrange the visa. The request has also come from the emissary's (Holtzberg) parents. At this point she's the only one the boy is responding to," Aharonov told news portal Ynet .

"In the evening his mother always puts him to sleep and now he doesn't understand what's going on," Samuel earlier told Israeli media.

Source : PTI