The heart of 6½-year-old Saba Badir from Kafr Qasim has given a second chance at life to 3½-year-old Rafael from Jerusalem, ending the young boy’s desperate nine-month wait for a transplant after years of battling a severe congenital heart defect.

Rafael had spent months at Schneider Children’s Medical Center connected to a Berlin Heart life-support device after his own heart failed and was just two hours away from flying to the United States for an emergency transplant when doctors received the call they had been praying for: a matching heart had become available in Israel. The life-saving transplant was performed at Schneider by a specialized pediatric cardiac surgery team.

That heart belonged to Saba, who suffered a catastrophic brain hemorrhage during a family vacation in Eilat and was declared brain dead at Soroka Medical Center. Her parents immediately agreed to donate her organs. “What am I going to do with her heart?” her grieving father said. “Let it save another child.”

The transplant was a success, giving Rafael a new beginning after years of surgeries, hospitalizations, and uncertainty. Looking at photographs of the little boy now living with his daughter’s heart, Saba’s father said through tears: “My daughter’s heart is alive. It is a gift from God.”

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The boy developed a fever and rash on Monday and was rushed to a hospital in Nicosia where resuscitation was performed.

By World Israel News Staff

An Israeli toddler living in Cyprus has died of what doctors believe was a meningococcal bacteria infection, Israeli media reported. He had been learning at a Chabad preschool in Limassol.

The boy developed a fever and rash on Monday and was rushed to a hospital in Nicosia where resuscitation was performed. Staff did not manage to save him.

There are other students in the preschool who have similar rashes and fevers, according to media reports. One Israeli child, whose condition was defined as serious, was transferred to Sheba Medical Center on Tuesday where she is now receiving care in the pediatric intensive care unit.

The other children are being screened for coronavirus and to detect the bacterium.

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Thousands of parents took to the streets to demand child care reform after a daycare owner was found to have been routinely abusing toddlers.

By JNS

Chanting “the country demands justice for the children” and other slogans, thousands of Israelis protested in some 25 locations around the country on Sunday to demand state oversight of daycare centers, amid outrage over a case in which a private kindergarten teacher systematically abused children under her care.

Roads were blocked in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as furious parents waved signs reading “Mother, Father, save me” and “Don’t abandon our children,” just days after hidden camera footage was released of Rosh Ha’ayin kindergarten caregiver Carmel Mauda (25) abusing children.

Parents of the children and their supporters are demanding child care oversight laws be strengthened and more severely enforced and that private daycare be brought under the jurisdiction of the Education Ministry. Public daycare in the form of preschool is currently available to children from the age of three.

Charges against Mauda, who ran the Baby Love daycare center, accuse her of violence against 11 children, ranging in age from three months to three years.

She is accused of covering children with blankets and sitting on them to prevent them from moving, forcing children to stand against a wall for hours, lifting toddlers by the arms and throwing them down, shaking babies, hitting and slapping toddlers and pulling their heads back while obstructing their breathing. In one case, she is even charged with force-feeding a child “the contents of a plate on which he had vomited.”

The footage led to nationwide horror and protests outside Mauda’s home and daycare center, which went up in flames on Saturday in what is believed to have been an arson attack. Currently under arrest, Mauda was not on the premises.

Hebrew media reported that Mauda initially denied the allegations, but told investigators “I am a monster” and “I was Satan here” when presented with the video evidence.

Mauda was allegedly reported by the last of eight different employees she hired and fired in the past year. Another unnamed assistant has also been arrested.

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