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Kidney donor saves IDF commander

Posted on June 2, 2024

On Oct 7, a Hamas terrorist wounded company commander Avichai Moula, and a few days later his kidneys began to fail. Of 3,400 offers to donate a kidney, Eitan Aviner from the Samaria town of Yitzhar was found to be … Continue reading →

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Running a marathon with his kidney donor

Posted on June 18, 2023

When 29-year-old Israeli Guy underwent a kidney transplant, he never imagined that just a year after the life-saving surgery, he would run a marathon – and do so with Yael, the person who donated the kidney that saved his life. … Continue reading →

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More kidney donors

Posted on November 29, 2022

The above article about Rony Zigler also mentions that more than a dozen residents of his religious Zionist hometown of Hispin in the Golan have donated kidneys to strangers through the NGO Matnat Chaim (“gift of life”).  Israelis are the … Continue reading →

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The world’s most live kidney donors

Posted on May 8, 2022

Israel is the country with the most living kidney donors worldwide per capita, according to a recent World Health Organization report of 2020 data. Israeli non-profit Matnat Chaim (see here) facilitated the donation of 1,170 kidneys – two thirds of … Continue reading →

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World’s kindest kidney donors

Posted on April 18, 2021

Israeli charity Matnat Chaim (Gift of Life) has facilitated 1,003 live kidney transplants since 2009 from altruistic donors – people who are not related to their recipients. Israel has the highest per capita rate of people donating kidneys to strangers. … Continue reading →

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The Israeli town with the most kidney donors

Posted on September 22, 2019

The religious community of Yitzhar in Samaria has the highest proportion of kidney donors in Israel. The ten Jewish donors didn’t know any of the recipients, who included secular left-wingers. Their only regret was that they could only donate once. … Continue reading →

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Finding donors for complex kidney patients

Posted on February 16, 2019

Israel’s Beilinson Hospital has implemented a new program that locates matching donors for kidney transplant patients who suffer from high levels of antibodies due to previous transplants or blood donations. It has already helped the hospital perform successful transplants for … Continue reading →

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Israel’s first live multi-organ donor

Posted on December 29, 2019

Rabbi Elad Gadot recently donated one of his kidneys to a total stranger for whom he was a rare match. Years ago, Rabbi Gadot donated a liver lobe to his son Eliyahu (now in the IDF) who needed a liver … Continue reading →

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Two generations of donors

Posted on September 22, 2019

Neria’s father had already donated a kidney to a total stranger. So, it was natural for Neria to register on the bone marrow database of Israeli NGO Ezer Mizion. He then got the call – he was the only known … Continue reading →

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Arab donor saves five lives

Posted on September 18, 2011

Arab-Israeli Nabil Hourani from the village of Deir Hannah died of a cerebral haemorrhage, but donated his heart, both lungs and both kidneys to five Jews and Arabs. Hourani’s brother said. “My brother now lives on, in both Arabs and … Continue reading →

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