January 5, 2009, Updated July 16, 2015

Now recovering in intensive care at Wolfson Medical Center near Tel Aviv, Jafar joins the 1,000 or so Palestinian children, and 1,000 more children from developing countries, who have received vital surgery in Israel from the medical volunteers at Save a Child’s Heart.

 

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