Crew Jets Girl to Family Wedding

By COLlive reporter

Tears were flowing in Israel overnight when a young girl who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of three surprised everyone and walked down the aisle as a flower girl at a family wedding.

Five-year-old Libby Nagel of Sydney, Australia, who beat cancer once before doctors recently found a brain tumor, has been in America for two years receiving treatment.

“Three weeks ago, her family called and said that doctors said it was too difficult and dangerous for Libby to fly, but she wanted to be a flower girl at the wedding,” former Sydney-sider and Hatzalah volunteer Dovi Meyer said.

He called Eli Rowe, CEO and Paramedic of Jet 911, a multi-national volunteer-based organization of doctors and physicians that support medical transfers.

Rowe was able to arrange, in conjunction with hospitals in Israel, accommodation, flights, and treatment for the four days while Nagel was in Israel.

“Flying Libby to Israel is the highlight of 2017 for me and the entire Jet911 crew,” Rowe said. “Our mission is to brighten the lives of special children anywhere and everywhere in the world. If they can dream it, Jet911 will make it happen.”

Only 40 children in the world are diagnosed with Libby’s form of cancer.

“I wouldn’t have believed it possible if it didn’t just happen,” said the girl’s appreciative mother, Shoni Nagel.

“You have made so many people happy and managed to enhance not only Libby’s life but the night of an unforgettable and wonderful wedding of our niece and nephew Talia and Yehuda Gafin.”

Video: 5 year old Libby walks down the aisle