Baby Sami was born with a nearly-blocked aorta, and kept alive in hospital in the West Bank through medication that kept open a ductus which normally closes after birth. So it was urgent to get him to an advanced medical center in Israel as soon as possible; one ambulance this afternoon brought him to the border crossing, and a back-to-back transfer took place to an Israeli ambulance, which then rushed him into the Sheba pediatric cardiac ICU where he was stabilized and evaluations began: