Transplantation sometimes makes for complicated stories.
Kidney from Jew killed in mob violence goes to Arab woman. By Hadas Gold and Michael Schwartz, CNN
" Randa Aweis, 58, waited nine years for the organ donation that would change her life.
"An Arab Christian, born in the Old City of Jerusalem, she was relying on regular dialysis sessions as her kidneys failed. Then the call came: A donor kidney was available. Aweis had surgery Monday at Jerusalem's famed Hadassah University Hospital Ein Kerem. When she went under the anaesthetic, she did not know who the donor was.
"Only afterwards did she find out that it was Yigal Yehoshua, a Jewish Israeli man who died in the wave of violence between Jews and Arabs in the Israeli town of Lod.
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"Yehoshua, 56, was critically injured on May 11 after being attacked by a group of young Arab Israeli men in Lod.
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"Her surgeon, Dr. Abed Khalaeileh -- a Palestinian born in Jerusalem -- said he and his colleagues simply treat everyone as human beings.
HT: Itai Ashlagi
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