Two people have regained their eyesight after receiving the corneas of the late former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who passed away March 17 after a long battle with cancer.
Avraham Gian, 81, and an unnamed 70-year-old woman were the recipients of the corneas, the transparent layer that forms the front of the eye.
The operations were carried out at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital.
Meir Dagan speaks to Channel 2, March 6, 2015 (Channel 2 screenshot)
“I’m amazed to discover that the corneas of a hero of Israel like him were implanted in me,” Gian told Channel 10 Tuesday.
“We all owe this man, and now I most of all, because I can see because of him…. I hope to have my sight for years to come after many years of not being able to see a thing.”
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