A team of Israel’s top surgeons operated unsuccessfully to separate Israel’s first Siamese twins this week-end. The twins came through the operation without any trouble.
During the operation it was learned that the two girls, linked at their abdomen, have only one liver, making their survival as two separate individuals impossible. The two girls, one blond and the other brunette, were born in a southern hospital last Thursday. Their parents are settlers in a Negev collective settlement.
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