An Israeli woman gave birth to twins over the weekend who were born in different millennia. Dr. Yinon Gilboa, a gynecologist, assisted in the Caesarean section of his wife, Sigal, as she gave birth Friday night to a daughter two minutes before midnight and a son born just after midnight.
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