In a world where Israel is so often misrepresented, reduced to headlines of conflict and accusation, there exists a profound, living truth that rarely receives the attention it deserves. It beats quietly, steadily, and compassionately inside the operating rooms of Israeli hospitals. Its name is Save a Child’s Heart and it tells a story that cuts through propaganda, hatred, and false narratives with something far more powerful than words: human life saved, without discrimination.

Founded in 1995 by Israeli pediatric cardiologist Dr. Ami Cohen, Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) is one of Israel’s most extraordinary humanitarian organizations. Based at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, the organization provides life-saving heart surgery and cardiac care to children from developing countries who would otherwise face almost certain death. These are children born with congenital heart defects, conditions that are routinely treatable in advanced medical systems but fatal in places where such care simply does not exist.

What makes SACH remarkable is not only the medical excellence it represents, but the moral clarity it embodies. Children are treated regardless of nationality, religion, race, or political reality. Enemy country or allied state. Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or any other faith. Palestinian, African, Asian, Eastern European. The heart, after all, does not recognize borders and neither does Israel’s humanitarian mission here.

Treating the World’s Children Literally

Since its founding, Save a Child’s Heart has treated over 7,400 children from more than 70 countries. This alone places it among the most impactful humanitarian medical organizations in the........

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