Organ donation

Israeli surgeons complete robotic lung transplant without fully opening chest, spreading ribs

The new, robotic method requires only small incisions in the chest to allow robotic technology to connect the transplanted lung to the patient's blood vessels and airways. 

Robotic lung transplant surgery at Clalit-Beilinson Hospital
Medical team performing surgery

Man receives human kidney transplant after surviving 271 days with gene-edited pig organ

Three-and-a-half-year-old Rafael and his mother beside the Berlin Heart device following one of the surgeries he underwent at Clalit's Schneider Children's Medical Center.

Kafr Kassem girl's organ saves Jerusalem boy in life-saving heart transplant

Medical team performing surgery

IDF soldier killed in Lebanon's organ donation saves six patients simultaneously


Five organs donated of reservist left braindead after tank overturned

The soldier donated a kidney in June.

 Rabbi Na’aran Eshhar, who was left braindead after his tank overturned while on reserve duty in Operation Swords of Iron

Fallen IDF soldier's donated organs save Israeli lives

Shoham Ben Harush wanted his organs to have a life-changing impact on others, his father said. In the end, they did.

 Family and friends attend the funeral of Sgt. Shoam Moshe Ben-Harush who died of his wounds after being severely injured in the Hamas terrorist on October 7, 2023, at the Haspin cemetery in northern Israel, on October 27, 2023

One child's tragic death saved four other children's lives through organ donation

A four-year-old boy received the heart; a six-year-old girl got the liver, and the kidneys were given to a four-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl. 

 Shoham David Turgeman z”l.

IDF destroys home of Huwara terrorist who murdered Yaniv brothers

Palestinian media reported clashes with Israeli security forces in the Askar refugee camp, where Khaled Harusha's home was located.

Brothers Hillel (Right) and Yigal (Center) Yaniv were killed in a terror attack in Huwara on Sunday, February 26, 2023.

Family of Yaniv brothers meet recipients of their donated, transplanted corneas

The meeting will take place at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva, where the transplant transplants took place. 

 Yaniv family with recipients and medical team who performed cornea transplants

Majority of Israelis would be willing to donate organs, study finds

The Israeli public's willingness to donate organs is now at 60%. The rest are mainly held back by the religious factor.

Hands holding green organ transplant awareness ribbon (illustrative).

Grapevine: Running a receipt

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 KIDNEY RECIPIENT Guy Dimery and donor Yael Keller are once again up and running.

Friends of Sheba gala raises NIS 10m. for Israel's largest hospital

The event saw a record number of 1,400 guests come to visit Israel's Sheba Medical Center, including high-profile Emirati businessman Mohamed Alabbar.

 Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, Director General of of Sheba Medical Center, is seen alongside Mohamed Alabbar at the Friends of Sheba gala.

Judaism and organ donation: Is respiratory brain death considered death?

Within the Israeli religious-Zionist community, we strongly encourage organ donation and signing an Israeli organ donation card. Many haredim, however, disagree and Diaspora rabbis are divided.

 THE CHILDREN of terror victim Lucy Dee meet the recipient of her organs – and listen to their mother’s donated heart.

Hadassah’s 'organoid' bank is ready to revolutionize medicine. Here is how

Organoids are lab-grown tissues that mimic the features and functions of a tissue in the body.

 From left to right Widad Samman, MSc student, Dr Naama Sznayder, researcher and  Dr Myriam Grunewald, Director of the Hadassah Organoid Center.