The family of a mother shot dead by terrorists has met the woman whose heart was donated to them — and can hear its beat.
Brit Lucy Dee48, and daughter Maia, 20 years old, and Rina15 years old, murdered in Israel.
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They were going to the Sea of Galilee for a holiday when they The car was sprayed with bullets by suspected Palestinian terrorists.
The sisters, who shared Anglo-Israeli citizenship, were killed in the attack and Lucy later died in hospital.
Survivors Keren, 19, and Tali, 17, went to see Lital Valenci, who received Lucy’s heart last month during a transplant surgery.
The video captures the moment Lital pressed the stethoscope to her chest so the girls could listen to their mother’s heartbeat beating inside her.
Two sisters were moved to tears at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israeli.
Mother-of-two Lital, 51, has had severe heart failure for five years.
The transplant was performed at dawn on April 11 — shortly after Lucy died at Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem from her injuries.
Lital told Jewish News: “I was moved to learn from whom my heart was given, because I had read about Lucy Dee and what a wonderful woman she was, with an exemplary family.”
Lucy’s husband, Rabbi Leo Dee – who also attended the meeting with his 14-year-old son Yehuda – said the family made the decision to donate her organs because “everything needed to be saved”.
A total of five people received organs from Lucy.
Israel’s National Transplant Center said a 58-year-old woman received a lung, a 25-year-old man received a liver and men aged 58 and 39 each received a kidney in a successful operation.
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Hundreds of people attended Lucy’s funeral at the Kfar Etzion settlement south of Jerusalem.
The rabbi said his wife was a “giver”.
He added: “That’s her hallmark and because she gave she encouraged others to give.”
He has said he doesn’t hold any grudges towards the killers – adding:
“Israeli security forces will do what they normally do, which is to track them down and bring them to justice.”
