Organ donation
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.
Kafr Kassem girl's organ saves Jerusalem boy in life-saving heart transplant
IDF soldier killed in Lebanon's organ donation saves six patients simultaneously
Four Israeli children saved in organ transplant marathon
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.
Israeli hospital sets record with dozen kidney, liver transplants in two weeks
A dozen kidney and liver transplants in less than two weeks earns Hadassah in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem a new Israeli record.
Terror victim Eytam Magini leaves the gift of sight after death
How does organ donation in Israel work, and how does one become an organ donor?
Organ donation in Israel: Sharing the good - opinion
‘Everything in my life is overflowing with blessing – I feel a need to share it’
17 lives saved with organ donations in 5 days
Are pig-human organ transplants allowed in Judaism?
While researchers still have a way to go, these promising developments raise the question of whether Jewish law supports using this technology.
Israel becomes world leader in live donor kidney donations - WHO
A new World Health Organization report listed Israel's yearly average number of living kidney donors as just over 30 people per million.
US man recovering after 'breakthrough' pig-heart transplant
The surgery is among the first to demonstrate the feasibility of a pig-to-human heart transplant. If proven successful, scientists hope pig organs could help alleviate shortages of donor organs.
Organ donation process will be made easier in new law
A law meant to ease the process of committing to donate one's organs after death will be debated in the Ministerial Law Committee on Sunday.
Medical ethics expert Rabbi Moshe Tendler dies at 95
Born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Tendler was immersed in the dual pursuit of rigorous secular and religious studies from a young age.
