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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/world/middleeast/israel-baby-yehia-heart-surgery.html?ref=middleeast

Israel Saves Afghan Baby with Heart Defect

(New York Times) Diaa Hadid - Two digital acquaintances - a young English teacher in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and a retired State Department official living in Haifa, Israel - collaborated to save an Afghan baby in Pakistan with life-threatening congenital heart problems. The baby's story reached Save a Child's Heart, an Israeli charity, and culminated in an eight-hour surgery on July 30 at Wolfson Medical Center near Tel Aviv. About half the charity's 4,000 patients have been Palestinian. This was the first Afghan treated in its 20 years of operations. Private Jewish donors provide most of its $3.5 million annual budget and about 70 health care workers volunteer their time.

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