Jewish Victim's Kidney Saves Life of Palestinian Girl

JERUSALEM, SEPT. 22, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The family of a Jewish student killed in a suicide attack in Tel Aviv donated one of his kidneys to a 7-year-old Palestinian girl, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported.

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Yoni Jessner, 19, who died in the attack Thursday, was from Scotland. One of his kidneys was transplanted to Yasmin Abu Ramila, a girl from East Jerusalem, the newspaper reported today.

«I have no words to thank the family of the victim of the attack,» said Dina, mother of the girl, who had waited two years for a transplant.

«I join them in their sorrow and thank them for the donation of the organ that has saved my daughter’s life,» she said.

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