Daniel Hemo, who was one of the five IDF soldiers killed in a friendly fire incident in northern Gaza yesterday, donated his bone marrow to save a woman’s life toward the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, the Ezer Mizion Jewish bone marrow registry reveals.
Hemo was found to be a match for a woman in her 60s, days before the war’s outbreak.
On October 7, he was supposed to be discharged from the army in order to begin the process of the donation, but it was put off due to the Hamas onslaught.
On that day, his 202 Paratrooper’s Battalion fought off Hamas terrorists in Israeli border towns in the south.
Later that month — while he was fighting in Gaza — the condition of his intended recipient worsened and his commander agreed to discharge him so that he could go through with the donation and save the woman’s life.
The donation went forward successfully on October 26.
Hemo eventually returned to fighting in Gaza where he was killed yesterday.
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