Ben Zion Cohen Mirkov and Olga Cohen Mirkov welcomed what they thought was a healthy baby boy.

"It's not the first boy that I have, so I feel that something is strange," Olga Cohen Mirkov said.

Doctors told her Lavi was OK, but a mother knows. At 9 days old, Lave was rushed to the emergency room.

"When we came to the ER, he was very bad," Cohen Mirkov said. "He was gray, and they take him immediately to the trauma room, because all the organs, it's fall down."

Lavi's bowel was twisted, so doctors rushed him into surgery. A surgery that they warned the parents he likely wouldn't survive, but he did.

His medical team told them that Lavi, who was also diagnosed with cerebral palsy, would need a five-organ transplant; however, they didn't have the technology to wait for it in Israel.

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