The Uplifting News Thread

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Stolen from Reddit with no fukks given. Post uplifting and heartwarming news stories in this thread. HL is depressing enough as it is.

Israeli doctors, spies rally to save 5-year-old Syrian girl

Almost from the start of the bloody conflict raging in Syria, Israel has agreed to treat in its hospitals any wounded Syrians who reached its border seeking help.

But one five-year-old girl from the war-torn land has led doctors, as well as Israel’s security services, to take unprecedented steps to try to save her life.

The girl arrived at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa in recent weeks with very serious wounds that she received after finding herself caught in a firefight between rival militias, according to an exclusive report Wednesday night on Channel 10.

Some two weeks after she arrived at the hospital, after her wounds had nearly healed, Rambam doctors discovered the young girl had cancer.

They refused to release her, insisting that they could not let her cancer go untreated. The girl had grown used to the hospital, and had friends among the other children being treated there, they said.

Security officials agreed.

And so a search began for a bone marrow donor, a search that led to a relative living in a Middle Eastern country designated an “enemy state” under Israeli law, a designation that prevented the relative from entering Israel.

It was at this point that Israel’s security services stepped in, mounting a secret operation in the enemy country that helped smuggle the relative out of that country and into Israel.

The relative arrived in Israel on Monday, Channel 10 reported. Both child and donor are now quarantined at the hospital, where the girl is expected to undergo a first round of treatment this month.

Nearly every detail about the girl’s identity and the operation to locate and retrieve her relative are classified.

 

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Schaeuble Donates Budget-Hawk Prize Money to Aid Syrian Refugees

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble plans to donate an award for balancing the budget to humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees, a gesture that underscores his backing for Chancellor Angela Merkel on migration policy.

Schaeuble has asked for the 15,000-euro ($17,000) award to be channeled to the German Red Cross to help refugees from Syria’s civil war who have fled to neighboring countries, the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft foundation said in an e-mailed statement on Thursday.

The group, whose name translates as Free-Market Economy Foundation, said it’s honoring Schaeuble for consolidating Germany’s public finances “despite the additional burdens” caused by the arrival of about 1 million refugees last year, the most since World War II. Schaeuble’s unyielding fiscal policy during Europe’s debt crisis has boosted respect for Germany worldwide and given the country “a leading role in economic and financial policy,” according to the foundation, based in Kronberg near Frankfurt.


Schaeuble, Merkel’s most senior cabinet member, has been her key supporter since Europe’s refugee crisis emerged last fall as the biggest threat to her chancellorship. Like Merkel, he’s rebuffed demands by members of her coalition to close Germany’s borders, instead backing her push to get Turkey and Greece to halt migrants at the European Union’s outer frontier and step up aid to Middle Eastern countries hosting Syrian refugees.