5 years after the disaster in Nahal Tselim: A letter from a mother who donated her son and her husband's organs caused Bennett to shed a tear
"The heart that once was in my son's body is now beating in someone else's chest. Part of it is still alive," Shiri Nir wrote to the ministers, who lost her son Ili and her husband Omri.
The letter was read to the government before approving Trooper's proposal to encourage the signing of an Eddie card for organ donation.
Ministers did not remain indifferent, and Prime Minister Bennett also shed a tear
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19/12/2021
Sunday, 19 December 2021, 17:00 Updated: 17:02
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In the video: Members of Muhammad Mahamid's family whose organs were donated to five Jews talk about the decision to donate (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
"There is something crazy, strange and inconceivable in the thought that part of my child, created from my husband and I's DNA, is today in the body of another child, alive and well, and that without this heart there is a chance the child would not be alive," she told the cabinet. Shiri Nir, who lost her husband Omri and son Eli in a disaster on a trip to Nahal Tselim in 2016.
Subsequently, the ministers approved the promotion of the project of signing an Eddie card for organ donation on government websites.
The letter was presented before the decision proposal of Culture Minister Hili Trooper, an organ donor himself.
Trooper read the letter written by Nir, who donated the organs of her 10-year-old son Eli, and immediately afterwards the proposal was unanimously approved without any discussion.
According to ministers present at the meeting, some of those present, including Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, did not remain indifferent to the letter and shed a tear.
The proposal is intended to expand the pool of donors in Israel, against the background of a shortage of organs for transplantation and a low rate of consent for organ donation both by families and through an Edi card.
The decision stipulates that any citizen who wants to use online forms on government websites such as renewing a driver's license, issuing a passport or paying a license, will be directed to sign an Eddie card and will be able to choose whether to sign it.
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"The first thing I saw on the ultrasound I did after I found out I was pregnant with Eli was his heart," Nir wrote.
"Even before I saw a child's shape on the screen, before I heard a baby crying and laughing, before I saw him learn to walk, before I taught him to read, before everything I saw and heard his heartbeat. Eli is no longer with me. I no longer hear him laugh and see. It is in front of my eyes, but this heart is still beating today, albeit in a different body. "
"The last thing I thought about the morning Omri and Ili went for a walk was that I would never see them again," she continued.
"When I got to the hospital they still made me believe there was a chance Eli got out of it, woke up and came home. It did not happen. When I realized everything was lost I went to the doctors and asked to talk about organ donation. I do not know where I had the strength to think about what to do and not concentrate on my pain. In retrospect, sometimes it seems to me like a customer from a movie. "
He shed a tear.
Bennett (Photo: Reuters)
Nir later addressed the importance of exposure to discourse and increasing awareness of organ donation in an effort to increase the number of donors in Israel. "It has been five years since Ili's organ donation. Somewhere in the country there are some children living thanks to him. It does not comfort me in any way about my inconceivable loss, but I am comforted to know that in the most difficult moment of my life I knew how to make an informed decision. "The heart that once was in Eli's body, that was excited, that it hurt, that I hugged and that I felt when he clung to me is now beating in someone else's chest. Part of it is still alive, and it's a feeling that can not be described in words."
"Increasing awareness of the importance of donation will have a life-saving effect and each of you who works for it will have a part in saving lives," she wrote to senior officials. "I ask all of you, the Prime Minister and ministers, to support the government decision made by Minister Trooper. I am convinced that the fact that for the first time all online government services will make the Eddie card available for signing will be a real life saver! And nothing is more important."
Minister Trooper said that "there is no important act of saving lives. More than a thousand Israelis are waiting in line for organ transplants. 90 of them are dying while waiting. More Israelis who will sign the Eddie card mean saving lives."
MK Merav Ben-Ari (Yesh Atid), who is simultaneously promoting a similar bill on the subject, welcomed the government's decision and said that "signing an Eddie card is an extremely important thing."
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