On Thursday, the boy was evacuated in critical condition to Soroka Hospital, anesthetized and on a ventilator, and transferred to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. "When the child arrived, we continued CPR and removed the grape from the trachea," said Dr.
Ran Hazan, a physician at the Children's Medical Center. "CPR continued until a pulse returned," he added. The boy died Saturday evening in hospital. He had choked on a grape at a supermarket in Beersheba.