Monday, September 23, 2002

Donated Kidney Bridges Mideast Divide
The kidney of a Jewish teenager killed in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last week has been transplanted into a Palestinian girl who suffered from a disease that eventually leads to kidney failure.

Yasmin Abu Ramila, 7, received the kidney of Jonathan Jesner, 19, a student from Glasgow, Scotland, who was on a Tel Aviv bus on Thursday when a Palestinian militant detonated his explosives.

Mr. Jesner's family had volunteered to donate Jonathan's organs and placed no restrictions on the recipients. "We believed it was what he would have wanted us to do," said his stepmother, who did not give her name.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/23/international/middleeast/23KIDN.html

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