One-year-old twin girls who were born conjoined at the back of the head can now make eye contact with each other for the first time after undergoing a rare separation surgery in Israel. The more than 12-hour operation that took place at Soroka Medical Centre in Beersheba on Sept. 2 took months of preparation and involved dozens of experts from Israel and abroad, the hospital said on Sept. 5. “This was a rare and complex surgery that has been conducted only 20 times worldwide and now, for the first time, in Israel,” said Mickey Gideon, Soroka’s chief pediatric neurosurgeon. “To our delight, everything went as we had hoped.” The surgery involved cranial reconstruction and scalp grafts. The medical staff used advanced equipment and technology, some of which was sourced externally, including 3D modeling, virtual reality, and special monitoring devices, according to The Jerusalem Post. The procedure specifically used STRATASYS, 3D4OP …