JERUSALEM — There’s still a long road to lasting peace in the Middle East after decades of war and hostility. One group may be a model for coexistence and shared humanity.

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One group may be a model for coexistence and shared humanity in Israel: the paramedics on the the national ambulance service

Arabs and Jews work together for Magen David Adom, putting politics aside to help save lives

Fadi Dekaidek, who is Muslim, said his father urged him to "be like these people" after a Jewish EMT team helped him with a medical issue

Israel is mostly Jewish, but with sizable Muslim and Druze communities

It is a region with significant, ancient and deeply complicated divisions, often revolving around dueling claims of sovereignty between Jews and Palestinians.

The paramedic

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