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Matnat Chaim

Illustrative: People hold a certificate after breaking the Guinness World Record for most nationalities in an exhibition soccer match organized by FIFA, in Rabat, Morocco, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
December 3, 2025, 4:59 pm
Guinness World Records says it stopped taking records from Israel after October 7
‘In current climate, we are not generally processing record applications from Palestinian Territories or Israel,’ it says; Israel holds strawberry, mezuzah, pi, many other records
By Zev Stub
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From the WebJune 25, 2025, 12:19 pm
Why do people have two kidneys? Maybe it’s so we can save a life
Could you save a life? Take Matnat Chaim’s short quiz to see if you might be eligible to donate a kidney and change someone’s world forever.
By Aviva Gat
PROMOTED CONTENT
June 17, 2025, 8:07 am
Why do people have two kidneys? Maybe it’s so we can save lives
Matnat Chaim is revolutionizing kidney donation in Israel, connecting healthy donors with patients in need and giving hundreds a second chance at life each year.
By Aviva Gat
Arnon Segal donated a kidney on July 10, 2023, on the condition it would go only to a Jew. (Courtesy of Beilinson Hospital and Soroka Medical Center)
July 12, 2023, 8:11 pm
Right-wing journalist causes stir by announcing his kidney would go only to a Jew
Though such stipulations are not officially possible, individuals can bypass this through organizations that pair a donor with a recipient that matches their criteria
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Collage of a number of Matnat Chaim's kidney donors. (Screenshot: Channel 13)
April 9, 2021, 11:56 am
Israeli kidney donation nonprofit hits ‘world record-breaking’ 1,000 transplants
Matnat Chaim, which mainly facilitates altruistic living donor transplants between non-relatives, helps with 200 cases over past year since death of co-founder from COVID-19
By ToI Staff
Matnat Chaim founder Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Haber in Jerusalem, September 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 9, 2020, 4:03 pm
COVID-19 death of Israeli kidney nonprofit founder spurs record number of donors
Rather than crumble after Rabbi Yeshayahu Heber’s death in April, ultra-Orthodox group Matnat Chaim has facilitated 57 transplants, and looks to expand reach to secular Israelis
By Benjy Singer
Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Heber, founder of the "Matnat Chaim" organization, at the courtroom of the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on September 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 14, 2020, 12:32 pm
Rabbi who founded kidney donation organization seriously ill with coronavirus
Avraham Yeshayahu Heber, 55, on a ventilator after contracting disease; was meant to celebrate initiative’s 800th transplant this week
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Blue and White MK Chili Tropper in hospital to donate a kidney, February 2, 2020. (Channel 12)
February 4, 2020, 8:58 am
Blue and White lawmaker donates kidney to a stranger
MK Chili Tropper undergoes successful operation to give organ to a man he doesn’t know, says he didn’t want to miss the opportunity to save a life
By Stuart Winer
Avi Appelbaum donated his kidney to Ilanit, who had been undergoing dyalisis for seven years previously. (Courtesy)
March 27, 2017, 9:17 am
For Israel’s cadre of kidney donors, giving is a given
Matnat Chaim has saved lives nationwide by facilitating over 400 altruistic donations, though policy of allowing donors to limit their giving to Jewish recipients draws ire
By Stéphanie Bitan
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