TV Segment on Organ Donation Contrasted With Racist Remarks on Arab Participation

A Friday night Channel 12 feature by Yigal Mosko told the moving story of Raphael Adri, a boy who had been living with an external artificial heart after his own heart failed, until he received a transplant that may allow him to live normally. The second half of the story followed the family of the donor, Shabaa Badir, a girl from Kafr Qassem who died after a cerebral hemorrhage. Her parents, Mahran and Rizan Badir, chose to donate her organs, and the most emotional moment came when they met Raphael, listened to his heartbeat through a stethoscope, and saw that their daughter had helped save another child and spare another family a similar fate. The program also noted that the surgeon, Prof. Rotstein, lost his son in Khan Younis about a year ago, adding another layer of grief and resilience to the story.