Inside Israel - News - Israel National News: "The organs of Itay Rabinovich, 3, who died of drowning last week, have saved three children, reports Israel Hayom. Itay's liver was transplanted into Haled Jahaleen, 6, of the Arad region. His kidneys were transplanted into a 9-year-old and a 17-year-old. All of the operations took place at Schneider Children's Hospital in Petach Tikva, and all three children are in stable condition. In addition, Itay's corneas were placed in the eyes of two men, aged 56 and 39, at Ichilov Hospital, and helped saved their eyesight."
Itai (ee-tai) is a Hebrew Torah name. The name can also be written: Itai, Etay, Eitay, Itay, Ytai, Etai, Itaj, or Eatai in Anglit.
Itai (Hebrew: איתי) is a Torah name that appears in Sefer Shmu'el and in recent years has become a very common name for males in Israel. Sometimes, in order to strengthen the connection to Eretz Israel of a baby who has converted to Judaism or to bless a Jew who has become very ill, it is considered acceptable to change his name to Itai. This name is often explained as an acronym of "If I forget thee, O Yerushalayim, let my right hand forget her cunning" (Tehillim 137:5)- "אם אשכחך ירושלים, תשכח ימיני" ("Im Eshkakhekh Yerushalaiym Tishkakh Yemini") or "ארץ ישראל, תורת ישראל" ("Eretz YIsrael, Torat YIsrael").
Itai is the name of two Torah characters: Itai ha'Giti (Itai of Gath) and Itai ben Rivai.
Itai ha'Giti
Itai ha'Giti was one of the army Generals of David ha'Melekh. Itai ha'Giti was not Jewish, but rather a Plishti from the city of Gath, next to Ashkelon. When David flees from Avshalom, he tells Itai that it is wiser not to follow him, but Itai chooses to go with David and his household anyway. 2 Shmu'el 15:
"And the king said to Ittai ha'Gitti; 'Why do you also go with us? return, and abide with the king; for you are a foreigner, and if you are wont to wander, [go to] your own place. [Only] yesterday you came, and today I should move you about with us, seeing that I go wherever I can go? Return and take back your brothers with you, (and do) kindness and truth (to them).' And Ittai answered the king and said, 'As the L-rd lives, and as my lord the king lives, that in the place where my lord the king shall be, whether for life or for death, for there shall your servant be.' And David said to Ittai, 'Go and passover.' And Ittai ha'Gitti passed over and [so did] all his men and all the little ones that were with him."
Itai ben Rivai
2 Shmu'el 23: These are the names of the mighty men who (served) David. Ittai ben Rivai of Giv'a of B'nei Benyamin;
1 Divrei Ha'yamim 11: And these are the chiefs of David's mighty men who held strongly with him in his malchus with all Israel to crown him-according to the word of the L-rd concerning Israel. Ithai ben Rivai, of Giv'a of B'nei Benyamin,
