Yisrael Otmazgin is a paramedic with the United Hatalah organization in Israel and a reservist in the IDF. Like thousands of others he registered as a bone marrow donor and a year ago was called in to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital as a compatible recipient had been found.
He underwent the fully-sedated surgery in order to extract bone marrow and according to international law the identities of the donor and the recipient cannot be revealed for a year.
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