A week-old Iraqi baby girl was brought to Israel for a heart operation. The girl was brought to the country for an operation doctors hope will correct a congenital heart defect. The Israeli organization Save a Child’s Heart brought Bayan Jassem and her parents to Wolfson Medical Center in Holon.
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