{"id":126194,"date":"2021-05-24T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=126194"},"modified":"2021-05-24T21:00:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:00:59","slug":"moment-of-hope-arab-woman-receives-kidney-from-jewish-man-killed-during-recent-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/moment-of-hope-arab-woman-receives-kidney-from-jewish-man-killed-during-recent-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment of hope: Arab woman receives kidney from Jewish man killed during recent clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jerusalem:<\/strong> A Jewish man killed during an eruption of Mideast violence has given new life to an Arab woman in bitter times.<\/p>\n<p>Yigal Yehoshua, 56, died May 17 after being pelted with rocks amid clashes between Arabs and Jews in Israel\u2019s mixed city of Lod.<\/p>\n<p>The ethnic violence was triggered by protests and clashes in Jerusalem that also ignited an 11-day Gaza War.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.19%2C$multiply_0.3541%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/ea279b4554f61585290ae1992550f1b104ebdd63\"><\/p>\n<p><span>Randa Aweis has spoken to the donor\u2019s widow.<\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>In Lod and other mixed cities inside Israel, groups of Arabs and Jews fought each other in the streets, torched cars and businesses, and savagely beat up anyone from the other side who crossed their path.<\/p>\n<p>But after days and nights of war and ugliness, there was a rare moment of hope, when Randa Aweis, a 58-year-old mother of six, got one of Yehoshua\u2019s kidneys after a 10-year wait.<\/p>\n<p>He was registered as an organ donor; the Jewish man and the Arab woman were medically a match.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.163%2C$multiply_0.3541%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_44\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/ec807f71be239372106258b1f6b522edb1893fe3\"><\/p>\n<p><span>Mourners at the funeral of Yigal Yehoshua in Hadid. <\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not believe it,\u201d she said in an interview Monday at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem. \u201cI\u2019m telling you, I couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey saved me,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople say he was a good man, that he didn\u2019t do any harm, so why was he murdered? &#8230; That\u2019s forbidden. There must be peace between Jews and Arabs, real peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israelis long accustomed to periodic unrest in Gaza and the occupied West Bank were shocked by the violence, which hit closer to home than at any point since the 2000 Palestinian intifada, or uprising. At times, it seemed like the start of a civil war.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his maiden trip to the Middle East on Monday, a four-day visit to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt and Jordan designed to solidify the Israeli-Hamas cease-fire and to help organise a UN-led effort to bring humanitarian aid and reconstruction to bomb-ravaged Gaza.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.296%2C$multiply_0.3541%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_54\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/53cc3d491f62c5cd0e22efe933db0896c3dc5111\"><\/p>\n<p><span>Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he departs Andrews Air Force Base. <\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing is that the cease-fire does hold,\u201d said a senior State Department official who spoke to reporters on the condition of anonymity imposed by the department.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Arab citizens, who make up 20 per cent of the population, said the violence was rooted in longstanding grievances. They have citizenship, including the right to vote, but face widespread discrimination. They also have close familial ties to the Palestinians and largely identify with their cause, leading many Jewish Israelis to view them with suspicion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI share in the sorrow of the family of the late Yigal Yehoshua who was murdered in a lynch carried out by Arab rioters in Lod,\u201d Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said when the death was announced last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will settle accounts with whoever participated in this murder; nobody will escape punishment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested several suspects in connection with the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Aweis never met Yehoshua but she spoke to his widow on a tearful video call. She hopes to visit his family in person once she has recovered from the transplant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYigal saved me, and as much as I say thank you to the family, to everyone, it\u2019s not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP, Washington Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Most Viewed in World<\/h2>\n<h3>From our partners<\/h3>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/world\/middle-east\/moment-of-hope-arab-woman-receives-kidney-from-jewish-man-killed-during-recent-clashes-20210525-p57ut7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem: A Jewish man killed during an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Moment of hope: Arab woman receives kidney from Jewish man killed during recent clashes - 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