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Riman

Riman Abu Gazar, 5½, from Gaza, was referred to Schneider when she was six weeks old to undergo life-saving open heart surgery.

The photograph “Bridge to Peace” won second prize in the “Daily Life” category in the “Local Evidence” exhibition displayed at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv.

Ziv Koren, an awardwinning docu-photographer, volunteered to document daily hospital routine and special moments taking place within the walls of Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel. Five years later, Ziv Koren returned to the hospital and photograph those same children again in a similar location – and healthy.