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.

|ByARIELLA ROITMAN
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

Following confirmation of his death, his family requested that his organs be donated, enabling several patients awaiting transplants to be saved or see their conditions improved.

|ByDR. ITAY GAL
CLALIT SCHNEIDER Children's Medical Center.

Four Israeli children saved in organ transplant marathon

The four transplants were a liver into a 9-year-old girl; a kidney into an 18-year-old woman; another kidney into a two-and-a-half-year-old boy; and a heart into a three-and-half-year-old.

|ByTZVI JASPER
Staff Sgt. (Res.) Effi Beniacar.

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

Beniacar made aliyah from Australia in 2011 with Hezi, who served as a paratrooper in the IDF, and became a member of Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha in northern Israel.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM

People and Places: Changing minds, saving lives

Organ donation is one way everyone can become a superhero.

OCTOBER 22, 2017ByCARL HOFFMAN
Robbie Berman