Transplant

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.

Medical team performing surgery
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Bel Finkelstein with the medical team.

'Noble, extraordinary act': Seven-year-old receives life-saving transplant from fallen IDF soldier

Reuven (right) and Yonatan (left) recover at Clalit-Beilinson Hospital following the kidney transplant.

'Unbelievable full circle': Terror attack survivor’s kidney saves rescuer’s brother 24 years later


California man donates part of liver to rabbi he doesn’t know

‘I’ve always had that altruistic streak and always sought out ways to help where I could,’ donor Eric Steger said.

Live liver donor Eric Steger meets with recipient Rabbi Jeffrey Kurtz-Lendner.

Organ donor families and transplant receivers gather for Hanukkah

Each family brought a hanukkiah and a picture of a deceased family member who donated their organs when they died.

Families of organ donors gather at the National Transplant Center on the second night of Hanukkah.

World's first 'artificial meniscus' implant performed in Israel

The implant is inserted into the knee joint through a small incision and mimics the function of the natural meniscus

A team of surgeons performs an innovative meniscus transplant.

President meets siblings of man who donated lung to Nechama Rivlin

"Your brother and our Nechama are now together. And he was with her all the time. He gave her great strength."

President Reuven Rivlin with the Halibli family

Israeli scientists 'print' world's first 3D heart with human tissue

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers revealed the heart, which was made using a patient’s own cells and biological materials.

A 3D printed, small-scaled human heart engineered from the patient’s own materials and cells.

President’s wife receives lung transplant

Donated by family of youth who drowned.

President Reuven Rivlin and his wife, Nechama, spend quality time with a puppy

Police bring Orthodox man to hospital on Shabbat for kidney transplant

"Shabbat Shalom, sir, we are happy to inform you that a kidney is waiting for you to be transplanted in the hospital and you have to arrive in the operating room within an hour," said the officers.

Israel police car (Illustrative)

New software to help increase kidney matches for transplants

"Since the transplant, my life has changed in every way,” Tzofit Ben Shau reflected after receiving a transplant with the help of Matnat Chaim.

Mr. Elio Moti Sonnenfeld who established the Danielle Sonnenfeld Foundation in memory of his daughter.

Uterine transplants could be possible in Israel within two years

Currently, Israeli law allows only heterosexual married couples to create surrogacy arrangements, but this has come under protest from MK and former health minister Yael German.

A plastinated fetus is seen during the exhibition "Body Worlds" by Gunther von Hagen in Rome

Palestinian, Israeli-Arab teens saved by organ donation from each other's family

All the operations were successful and the patients are recovering.

Kidney transplant operation at Rambam Hospital in Haifa