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. 

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN
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

Andrews was 66, had end-stage kidney disease, no suitable living donor, and a long anticipated wait time for a deceased donor when he underwent surgery in 2025 to receive a kidney from a pig.

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN
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

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

|ByARIELLA ROITMAN
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

Modern Orthodox rabbis endorse organ donation as a mitzva

New ADI donor card issued to encourage religious to take part

FEBRUARY 25, 2018ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Hands holding green organ transplant awareness ribbon (illustrative).

Donor for life

The most difficult period for any family is when it has to decide whether to donate the organs of a loved one.

DECEMBER 1, 2017ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN and his wife, Nechama (second from left), host (from left) Vered Shirazi, Adnan Haj Yihye and Michal Vitori yesterday during an event at the President’s Residence encouraging organ donations.

People and Places: Changing minds, saving lives

Organ donation is one way everyone can become a superhero.

OCTOBER 22, 2017ByCARL HOFFMAN
Robbie Berman