Organ donation

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

“Organ donation gives life, literally. Whoever saves one life, saves an entire world,” said the doctor in charge of the transplant.

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.
Medical team performing surgery

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

CLALIT SCHNEIDER Children's Medical Center.

Four Israeli children saved in organ transplant marathon

Staff Sgt. (Res.) Effi Beniacar.

'Always put others first': IDF reservist who died while on leave saves four with organ transplants


Upholding the sanctity of life: Organ donation and Jewish tradition - opinion

Regrettably, some Orthodox opinions still prohibit posthumous organ donation due to the misguided belief that brain death is not considered death.

 Efrat Residents standing outside their homes with Israeli flags to show solidarity with the Dee family, following the death of Lucy Dee, who died of her wounds three days after the deadly terror attack that killed her two daughters Rina and Maia, in Efrat, in the West Bank, April 10, 2023.

Five people saved by organ donations from Lucy Dee

Dee was murdered alongside her daughters, Maia and Rina, in a shooting attack near Hamra in the Jordan Valley last Friday.

 Family and friends gather outside the house of Maia and Rina Dee, ahead of their funeral in Efrat on April 09, 2023. The 2 sisters were killed 2 days ago in a terror attack in the Jordan valley. Their mother, injured in the attack, is still in critical condition.

MK Tropper sues Likud activists who called him 'pedophile'

A known Likud activist on TikTok called Tropper a 'stinking pedophile' and claimed he had donated a kidney only because he was exposed.

 Culture and Sports Minister Chili Tropper speeks to the Israeli Olympic delegation competing at the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo during a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 23, 2021

Uber driver donates kidney to passenger, sparking lifelong friendship

An Uber driver donated his kidney to a passenger, forever changing the trajectory of an elderly dialysis patient's life. 

 Uber ride.

Terror victims Yagel, Hallel Yaniv's corneas donated to four Israelis

The parents of the murdered brothers decided soon after the attack to donate their corneas - now they will give eyesight to four other persons.

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

Record high number of organ transplants in Israel in 2022

This year saw an increase in cooperation with foreign countries like Austria, the Czech Republic and the Emirates in the exchange of kidneys.

Hands holding green organ transplant awareness ribbon (illustrative).

Doctors 'resuscitate' and successfully transplant non-viable liver

Hagai Vyacheslav needed a liver transplant but couldn't receive one because he was considered too high risk of getting sick again.

 The liver transplant surgery that saved Hagai Vyacheslav's life.

Simhat Torah: Meet the Israeli nonprofits providing 'Torah happiness'

They may be ‘nonprofits,’ but there’s lots of reward in doing good & saving lives. Here are a few of my favorites.

 MY PIECE of the Puzzle staff.

Family donates corneas of soldier killed last week, restores sight for two

The two recipients, both in their 80s, were Binyamin Goren and Aviva Ra’anan, whose new corneas restored their sight. 

 The two recipients whose sight was restored from Ido Baruch's donated cornea.

Donated heart accidentally damaged before transplant at Sheba

A medical staff member accidentally put the donated organ into the wrong preservative, making it impossible to transplant.

Main entrance to the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer