<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:Georgia;line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-right:198px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px">"A 65-year-old Bnei Brak woman gave birth this week, becoming the oldest woman to give birth in Israel. The ultra-Orthodox woman and her 67-year-old husband had been battling infertility for 46 years before the birth at Kfar Sava’s Meir hospital.</p><p style="font-family:Georgia;line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-right:198px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px">After fertility treatments abroad and with the help of a donor egg, the woman became pregnant, giving birth to a 2.685-kg baby in her 35th week of pregnancy. </p><p style="font-family:Georgia;line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-right:198px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px">“To the best of my knowledge, this is the oldest woman to give birth in Israel. It is extremely rare that pregnancy at this age ends well. </p><p style="font-family:Georgia;line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-right:198px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px">The ultra-Orthodox circle from which the couple comes attributed the pregnancy and birth to a blessing the woman received from a Hassidic rabbi. "<br></p><p style="font-family:Georgia;line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-right:198px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.657230">http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.657230</a><br></p><p style="font-family:Georgia;line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-right:198px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><br></p><p style="font-family:Georgia;line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-right:198px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px">Given all the halachic controversy of who is the halachic mother I am a little surprised</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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