Yigal Yehoshua and Muhammad Mahammid Kiwan's families agreed to donate their organs after both died in Israel's communal violence, saving lives across conflict lines
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Arab Woman Receives Kidney from Jewish Man Killed in Violence
May 25, 2021
Randa Aweis, right, who received a kidney transplant from Yigal Yehoshua, a Jewish man who died May 17 after clashes between Arabs and Jews in Israel’s mixed city of Lod, walks with her daughter, Nevine at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital on May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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An Arab woman has received a kidney from a Jewish man killed in clashes between Arabs and Jews in the Israeli city of Lod.
The man, 56-year-old Yigal Yehoshua, died May 17 after being hit by rocks during riots in Lod, a mixed city of Israel’s Jews and Arabs.
Die Eskalation des Nahost-Konfliktes birgt viele Tragödien. Aus einer wurde im Nachhinein ein lebensrettendes Geschenk, das man als Symbol für die Hoffnung auf Frieden deuten könnte.