In Lod and other mixed cities inside Israel,groups of Arabs and Jews fought each other in the streets,torched cars and businesses,and savagely beat up anyone from the other side who crossed their path.
But after days and nights of war and ugliness,there was a rare moment of hope,when Randa Aweis,a 58-year-old mother of six,got one of Yehoshua’s kidneys after a 10-year wait.
He was registered as an organ donor;the Jewish man and the Arab woman were medically a match.
“I could not believe it,” she said in an interview on Monday at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem. “I’m telling you,I couldn’t believe it.”
“They saved me,” she said. “People say he was a good man,that he didn’t do any harm,so why was he murdered? That’s forbidden. There must be peace between Jews and Arabs,real peace.”