AMIGOS DE ISRAEL - CORDOBA (ARGENTINA)

 For nine months, three-and-a-half-year-old Rafael never left Schneider Children's Medical Center. His hospital room was his home. A small machine on wheels was his heartbeat. His family's bags were packed for New York - where wait times for a donor heart are shorter - when the phone rang.

Six-and-a-half-year-old Saba, from Kafr Qasim, had collapsed in Eilat during a family vacation. She never woke up. In their darkest hour, her family said yes to organ donation - without hesitation.

"My daughter is gone. What am I going to do with her heart? At least let it save other children."

Today, inside Rafael's chest, Saba's heart beats. The surgeon who fought for that moment lost his own son - an IDF soldier killed in Gaza — just last year.

In Israel, coexistence isn't a slogan, but a living reality. This is the Israel the world doesn't see.

Via: Clalit in English Services - Schneider Children's Medical Center Research Authority