The kidney of a Jewish teenager killed in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last week has been transplanted into a Palestinian girl — saving her life. Yasmin abu Ramila, 7, received the kidney of Jonathan Jesner, a 19-year-old student from Scotland who was on a Tel Aviv bus Thursday when a Palestinian militant detonated his explosives. Officials at Schneider Children's Hospital in the central Israeli town of Petah Tikva said Sunday that Yasmin was in good condition after Saturday's transplant. Jesner's family volunteered to donate his organs and placed no restrictions on the choice of recipients. "We believed it was what he would have wanted us to do," said his stepmother, who declined to be named.
This sort of thing goes right by the Paleos. They don't understand it, and probably dismiss it as a fairy tale... |