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Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Staff Sergeant Yehonatan Yitzhak Semo was killed in battle in Gaza, but his organs have been donated to six patients in different hospitals, Israel's National Transplant Center announced on Sunday. World News | Fallen Israeli Soldier's Organs Save Six Lives.
A resident of Karmei Tzur, near Hebron, Semo is survived by four younger siblings, and now six patients whose lives he saved.
Lital Valensi, 51, was a healthy and athletic woman until she was diagnosed with heart failure; Last month she received a heart transplant from Leah Dee, the mother who was murdered in a terror attack along with her 2 daughters; 'When I saw Leo at the torch-lighting ceremony, it felt like something in my heart moved, as if Leah could feel it'
"There was not a dry eye in the room as [the girls] raised their hands to [the recipient's] chest to hear their mother’s heartbeat."
Terror victim Lucy Dee’s organs were transplanted before burial, saving the lives of five people.