Why a staunch right-wing Israeli woman gave her kidney to a Gaza boy

Despite furious objections from her family, Idit Harel Segal gave the organ to do a good deed, hoping to live up to the morals of her Holocaust-surviving grandfather

WHEN IDIT HAREL SEGAL, a 50-year-old married mother of three, told her loved ones she was planning to donate one of her kidneys simply to do a good deed, they were aghast.

And that was before the staunchly right-wing family found out that the recipient would be a Palestinian from Gaza.

“I wanted to do something big — and what is bigger than saving a life,” Segal told Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language sister site. She said she was inspired by her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor who always taught her to live a meaningful life.

FULL STORY How a staunch rightist gave her kidney to a Gaza boy — simply to do a good deed (Times of Israel)

Photo: Idit Harel Segal ahead of her operation in June 2021 (courtesy)