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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-syria-heart-girl/
Saving Nadrah
(Times of Israel) Lazar Berman - The Times of Israel accompanied the first Syrian heart patient in Israel - a four-year-old girl whose family put her life in the hands of the enemy - on the final stage of an unprecedented journey. The little girl, Nadrah, suffered from a congenital heart disease, single ventricle physiology. The malformation did not allow her blood to be properly oxygenated by her lungs, giving Nadrah a bluish complexion. Untreated, she wouldn't see her 18th birthday. She was accompanied by her mother -- in the final weeks of her pregnancy. They had been brought to Israel by Shevet Achim, an Israel-based Christian organization that has been arranging for Palestinian, Jordanian, Kurdish and now Syrian children to come to Israel for almost two decades to undergo life-saving heart surgery. "The Israeli government is clear that in life-or-death cases, it will do whatever is needed to get the patient treatment," noted a senior member of the Shevet Achim community. "I haven't seen them deviate from that policy in 18 years."