In first, Israeli woman to donate kidney to UAE patient – ‘This is a step that may promote peace,’ says transplant center head. ‘When I spoke to the doctors from Abu Dhabi, they said that they were also happy to be partners for the first time’ | Haaretz.com

Less than a year after signing the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, an Israeli woman is set to give a kidney to a patient in Abu Dhabi as part of a new cross-border organ donation program.
According to the Ynet news site, 39-year old Shani Markowitz Manshar is slated, pending final approval, to donate her kidney this week at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer.