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A 58-year-old Arab Christian woman got a new lease on life this week when she received a kidney transplant from 56-year-old Yigal Yehoshua, who died on Monday six days after being hit in the head with a brick during the Lod riots.The transplant was conducted at Hadassah-University Hospital in Ein Kerem, where Randa Aweis of Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood had been undergoing treatment for kidney disease for nine years. The hospital said the transplant, which was overseen by Hadassah’s Dr. Ashram Imam and Dr. Abed Halaila, was urgent. Read the rest at TheJerusalemPost.
