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Janglo saves a life

Thanks to an urgent request on Israel’s favorite group information board, a kidney donor was found for a desperately ill mother of five in Ashdod. Doctors at Israel’s Beilinson Medical Center performed the transplant in January. http://www.janglo.net/index.php?option=com_adsmanager&page=display&catid=99&tid=300960

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Muslim and Haredi women form special bond

Two Israeli women – one a Haredi Jew and the other a Bedouin Arab Muslim – formed a special friendship after receiving kidney transplants from the same donor. Lilach from Be’er Sheva and Nama from near Rahat converse in Arabic … Continue reading

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Record number of organ donations

Israeli doctors performed a record 592 organ transplants in 2018 – 13% more than in 2017. 258 were from live donors – mostly kidneys, including 106 from non-relatives for altruistic reasons. Dvora Ben Dror, who founded the Adi organ donation … Continue reading

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Israel flies in Gaza student from Algeria to save brother

Surgeons at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center successfully transplanted a kidney into a 13-year-old Gazan boy suffering from renal failure. The donor was his brother who was flown in via Jordan from Algeria where he was studying. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Gazan-student-in-Algeria-flown-to-Israel-to-donate-kidney-to-teen-brother-533041

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Record number of organ transplants

A record 504 Israelis were saved thanks to organ transplants in 2016, up from 433 in 2015. The number of live kidney transplants (222) was also a record and included 129 donations from friends or strangers.  887,317 Israelis have now … Continue reading

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Successful transplants following cardiac death

More lives can be saved now that Israel has adopted technology to allow transplants from donors whose hearts have stopped beating. Previously, some religious authorities rejected brain-stem death, whilst cardiac death damaged vital organs making them unusable. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/New-Tech/Israels-first-successful-kidney-transplants-from-cardiac-death-donor-will-expand-supply-of-organs-372248

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