Twins who married twins have babies minutes apart

The twin brothers, Niv and Ran Cohen, 24, and the twin sisters, Leah and Rivka, 20, become parents to daughters born only 20 minutes apart on Sunday 

Twin brothers, Niv and Ran Cohen, with their newborn daughters  |  Photo credit: Kikar Hashabbat

In a rare but happy coincidence on Sunday in Israel's Breslov hassidic community, twin sisters, who are married to twin brothers, each gave birth to a baby girl at almost exactly the same time.

Like the twin sisters, and their twin husbands, the two baby girls were born 20 minutes apart, Orthodox news website Kikar Hashabbat reported.

The twin brothers, Niv and Ran Cohen, 24, and the twin sisters, Leah and Rivka, 20, were married four days apart.

Both couples live in Yavne'el and follow the late Rabbi Eliezer Shlomo Schick, who matched the sets of twins to marry and predicted that they would have children at the same time.

Niv remarked that his and his brother's state ID numbers are only two digits apart, as are their wives' -- and now the same will be true for their daughters.

The sisters' mother said, "With us, everything comes in twos.