The late Sgt. Uri Jarbi/courtesy of the family
Last Friday at the Soroka Medical Center, Uri Jarbi, a 20-year-old fighter in the Givatay Patrol from Herzliya, who was mortally wounded in Gaza and whose organs were transplanted with Schneider - a liver lobe in a six-month-old toddler and a kidney in a 6-year-old child, was declared brain dead.
"Uri, since childhood, was a charismatic child and a social magnet , always looked first at his family and friends and only then at himself," said Naomi Mor, Uri's mother.
"He helped children who were boycotted in class, adopted one boy who was boycotted, and then this child was rehabilitated. The same young man came to us after Uri was killed, and told how sorry he was for not thanking him enough.
Uri is a gifted tennis player, an outstanding student, at the age of 16 and a half he left The tennis is for training for the army. He wanted to join the patrol, to be in the field, to feel what it is like to be a combat soldier, and that's how he came to the Givati patrol. They asked him to go to command and he preferred to stay with the team. When he enlisted, he said that he signed an Eddie card. I told him that we, father and mother, have been signed for thirty years "
On the way to the funeral, we learned that the liver from his organ donation was transplanted into a six-month-old toddler, I felt comforted.
It is not easy for parents to donate a child's organs, and later I learned about the kidney transplant in a 6-year-old girl. We hope that no one will be in our place, but if it happens, we must allow the organ donation.
And that's a huge thing.
Hope Uri's contribution will ensure a good life, this is exactly Uri's legacy.
We won him, and he won by dying to save lives."
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