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.
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.
Organoids are lab-grown tissues that mimic the features and functions of a tissue in the body.
“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."
British-Israeli terror victim Lucy Dee’s organs were transplanted before burial, saving the lives of five people.
Regrettably, some Orthodox opinions still prohibit posthumous organ donation due to the misguided belief that brain death is not considered death.
Dee was murdered alongside her daughters, Maia and Rina, in a shooting attack near Hamra in the Jordan Valley last Friday.
A known Likud activist on TikTok called Tropper a 'stinking pedophile' and claimed he had donated a kidney only because he was exposed.
An Uber driver donated his kidney to a passenger, forever changing the trajectory of an elderly dialysis patient's life.
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