ANSAmed - Protagonists in the story are a 19-year-old soldier, Yaniv Pozoarik, from the town of Holon, and a 25-year-old Arab with Israeli passport, Salim Louai, resident of the town of Ibillin, in Upper Galilee. On the night of March 25 corporal Yaniv was injured by mistake by a fellow soldier while he was in the military base. He was taken to the hospital in Haifa where doctors told his family he was brain-dead. ''It only took us a minute to decide to donate his organs because we were certain that he, who had always been so generous, would have been proud of our choice,'' the father, Yafim, said. The screening for patients awaiting transplantation started while the doctors were still in the operating room. This is how the death of corporal Yaniv became crossed, due to complicated genetic reasons, with the life of Salim. The young Salim Louai, a Palestinian Arab with Israeli passport, lived attached to an artificial heart for five months. ''We knew that transplantation was the only hope for survival,'' his brother, Tahar, said. The operation, which took six hours, took place at the specialised centre of 'Chaim Sheba' near Tel Aviv.
''I do not care who has received my son's heart but I am sure that that heart will make him a better person,'' the father of the soldier said.
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