Organ donation

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
CLALIT SCHNEIDER Children's Medical Center.
Staff Sgt. (Res.) Effi Ben-Yakar.

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

Ben-Yakar 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
An illustrative image of surgeons conducting surgery.

January sets record for organ transplants in Israel with 54 procedures

During January, 54 transplants were performed on 47 patients, significantly higher than the previous record set in 2024, when about 36 transplants were performed in one month.

|ByDR. ITAY GAL
Amram Hazan, a lung transplant recipient with Dr. Dror Rosengarten, Deputy Head of the Pulmonology Institute at RMC, and Dr. Osnat Livneh Streichman- Head of the Pulmonology Institute at RMC.

History in Israel: Rabin Medical performs countries 1,000th lung transplant

The announcement comes after the family of IDF reservist Master Sgt. (res.) Asael Babad donated his organs following his death on January 22, 2026.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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. 

JUNE 18, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
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.

JUNE 18, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Hands holding green organ transplant awareness ribbon (illustrative).

Grapevine: Running a receipt

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 9, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
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.

JUNE 7, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

MAY 26, 2023BySHLOMO M. BRODY
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.

MAY 14, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
From left to right Widad Samman, MSc student, Dr Naama Sznayder, researcher and Dr Myriam Grunewald, Director of the Hadassah Organoid Center.

Grapevine May 3, 2023: The gift of life

“There is no greater privilege than saving a life. Of all the things I’ve done in the army and as a civilian, this is the most meaningful."

MAY 3, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
SHIMON PERES and Barbra Streisand embrace each other at the Jerusalem International Convention Center in 2013.

Dee family listen to heartbeat of Lucy Dee in transplant patient

British-Israeli terror victim Lucy Dee’s organs were transplanted before burial, saving the lives of five people.

MAY 2, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabbi Leo Dee and family members meet with patients who received organ donations from Lucy Dee who were killed with her two daughters in a terror attack a few days ago, at the Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson) in Petah Tikva , May 2, 2023.

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.

APRIL 23, 2023ByELIYAHU FEDERMAN
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.

APRIL 11, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.