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The nonprofit organization Matnat Chaim (gift of life) is set to enter the Guinness World Records after successfully gathering more than 1,000 kidney donors in a single photograph on Sunday.
The record was set during an emotional ceremony in Jerusalem, attended by President Isaac Herzog marking 2,000 kidney donations in Israel.
Matnat Chaim said that according to global health data, Israel leads the world in living kidney donations per capita. To date, 2,030 living kidney transplants have been carried out in Israel through the organization.
A Zimbabwean teenager whose life was saved as a baby by one of the most complex pediatric heart surgeries ever performed in Israel has returned to the Jewish state—this time as a healthy 15-year-old—to thank the surgeon who saved his life and to undergo a routine pacemaker battery replacement.
Takudzwa Chitima was just 21 months old when he arrived in Israel in 2012, suffering from a rare and life-threatening congenital heart condition. Without advanced surgery, doctors warned, he was unlikely to survive.
Takudzwa’s mother, Faith, recalled how dire the situation had been before the operation. “He wouldn’t eat, he wasn’t growing, and he was underdeveloped. We were told he was at very high risk of dying,” she said. “But ever since the surgery, life for my boy has been perfect.”
Now 14 years later, Takudzwa returned to Israel as a healthy teenager. During his visit, he met Dr. Sasson face-to-face for the first time since the surgery.
“I really want to thank you,” Takudzwa told the surgeon. “Because of you, I am alive. I live my life as a grateful person because of you.”
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