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HEARTWARMING: Jews and Arabs Unite for One Little Boy’s Big Day

Jul 6, 2026·2 min read

The Sheba Medical Center’s children’s hospital released a heartwarming video of a little boy named Mohammed who had been cured of bone marrow cancer. All of the staff, Jews and Arabs, came together to celebrate in an emotional ceremony, which began with Mohammed ringing a bell. They rolled out the red carpet for the little boy, literally, and festooned the hallway with balloons.

“Mohammed was discharged today,” a woman wearing scrubs said, adding that the child had been hospitalized there for two months with bone marrow cancer.

“We made him a special ceremony, in which we rolled out a red carpet, with balloons,” she said. “He rang the bell to signal the end of his treatment.”

“We’re very, very excited for him, very happy for him,” she added. “We wish him a lot of good and a lot of health.”

After he rang the bell, little Mohammed walked down the red carpet, taking a bunch of balloons that was handed to him by a staff member and high-fiving (or rather, low-fiving) the staff lining the length of the red carpet. One staff member expressed his emotion by kneeling down and shaking the boy’s hand enthusiastically, pumping his hand up and down for several seconds.

This is the side of Israel the media doesn’t show: not just the coexistence of Jews and Arabs in hospital settings but the goodwill they share.