My Son Yoni Was Killed by Evil Bombers but His Death Is Now a Symbol of Hope ; Murdered by Palestinian Terrorists in Telaviv, a Scots Jew's Organswere Used to Save the Life of an Arab Girl
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HE was a brilliant student enjoying a gap year in Israel when his young life was ended by a suicide bomber. The horrific death of Scots teenager Yoni Jesner in a Tel Aviv bus at the hands of a Palestinian terrorist caused international outrage.
The impact was felt throughout Scotland's Jewish community and beyond. Then his traumatised family, devout Jews, had to endure the additional torment of discovering that their 19-year-old son's organs had been donated to a Palestinian.See the full content of this document
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My Son Yoni Was Killed by Evil Bombers but His Death Is Now a Symbol of Hope ; Murdered by Palestinian Terrorists in Telaviv, a Scots Jew's Organswere Used to Save the Life of an Arab Girl
But speaking for the first time since the tragedy, Yoni's mother, Marsha Gladstone, reveals how his death has helped build a personal bridge across the Middle East's violent political and religious divide and helped two communities start to understand each other's suffering.
Marsha is still haunted by the moment she learned her son, who was one o...See the full content of this document
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