Some families of Jews and Arabs killed in the Israeli-Arab conflict have chosen to donate organs to transplant patients on the "opposite side".
[8] Yonatan "Yoni" Jesner was a 19-year-old Scottish Jew who was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber on September 19, 2002, in Tel Aviv.
After his death, Bnei Akiva raised money to buy an ambulance for Magen David Adom in his memory.
The recipient was Yasmin Abu Ramila, a seven-year-old Palestinian girl from East Jerusalem[16] born with kidney failure.
Yasmin Rumeileh's father, Abu, who runs a tea and coffee shop in East Jerusalem, said this week, "We are one family.
[11] Ahmed Khatib of Jenin, 12, was shot by an Israeli soldier in November 2005 when the toy gun he was waving was allegedly presumed to be a real one.
[1][18] Ehud Olmert called Ahmed's father, Ismail, extended his condolences and invited him to visit his office in Jerusalem.
[1] While denouncing the soldiers as "criminals", Ahmed's mother Abla explained why she agreed to the donations: "We saw a lot of painful scenes in the hospital.
On the day of his death, Ahmed had visited Jenin's "martyrs' graveyard", the cemetery for Palestinian rebels who died fighting Israel.
[19] The story about his parents' decision to donate their son's organs became the subject for the PBS documentary The Heart of Jenin.
[17] Organ transplants in which the recipient is a Palestinian and the donor an Israeli, or vice versa are not unusual at Hadassah Medical Center.
The Israeli family did not speak to the media, but said they felt privileged to take part in "creating the mosaic of peace".
[21] In 2010, a Palestinian family from East Jerusalem donated the organs of their three-year-old child who died in a home accident.