The Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

JNS.org – Israeli Shani Markowitz Manshar, 39, is scheduled to undergo surgery on Wednesday to donate one of her kidneys to a patient in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates as part of an organ-donation program between the two countries.

According to a report by the UAE publication the Khaleej Times, the procedure involves a three-way kidney exchange where a patient in Haifa will receive a transplant from a donor in the UAE.

Manshar’s mother is also in need of a kidney and will be hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer in Israel.

“There will be more organ transplants and medical tourism like this coming down the line in the next couple of months,” a spokesperson for Sheba told the Khaleej Times.