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Jesse Eisenberg introduces a performance from "Floyd Collins" during the 78th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8, 2025, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
November 3, 2025, 6:19 pm
Jesse Eisenberg says he’ll donate one of his kidneys
The star of ‘A Real Pain’ and ‘The Social Network’ is also a prolific blood donor and has been trying to give his kidney to a stranger for a decade
By ToI Staff
Nasrat and Janka Sammarah with a photo of their son, Mikhael, critically wounded by an Iron Dome malfunction during a Hezbollah drone attack, August 11, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)
August 11, 2024, 10:54 pm
Organs of man who died of wounds from Hezbollah drone attack donated to six people
Baby girl among recipients; family of Mikhael Sammarah of Kfar Yasif in Western Galilee express disappointment that nobody from Israeli government came to pay their respects
By Diana Bletter
Lt. Roi Nahary was killed in action against terrorists at Kfar Aza on October 9, 2023. His family donated his organs. (Courtesy)
November 25, 2023, 8:50 am
Grieving their fallen soldier sons, families donate their organs, spread life
These are the stories of 5 regular and reserve IDF soldiers whose hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys have given 25 people a new lease on life, during dark days of war
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopter releases flares during an Israeli army raid in Jenin in the West Bank on June 19, 2023. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
June 20, 2023, 1:09 pm
Daily Briefing June 20: Does IDF airstrike in Jenin signal new tactics in West Bank?
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian takes us through the rare use of a helicopter in Monday’s violent flareup; health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand on a synthesized human embryo
By ToI Staff
Dina Khalil. (Courtesy)
December 30, 2022, 8:30 pm
Israeli nursing student in Jordan dies after fall; family donates organs
22-year-old Dina Khalil’s relatives say she was transferred to Israeli hospital after one in Jordan refused to give her necessary treatment until she forked over exorbitant costs
By ToI Staff
Dr. Bartley Griffith takes a selfie photo with patient David Bennett in Baltimore in January 2022. (Dr. Bartley Griffith/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)
March 9, 2022, 9:02 pm
First patient to undergo pig heart transplant dies after two months
Maryland team behind operation say they’re still hopeful David Bennett’s case will one day help advance cross-species organ donations
By AFP
Idit Harel Segal ahead of her operation in June 2021 (Courtesy Idit Harel Segal)
June 30, 2021, 6:44 pm
How a staunch rightist gave her kidney to a Gaza boy — simply to do a good deed
Fighting furious objections from her family, Idit Harel Segal went through with the operation, hoping to live up to the morals her Holocaust-surviving grandfather taught her
By Tani Goldstein
Staff Sgt. Yonatan Granot, killed by an apparent accidental discharge from another serviceman’s weapon in the Jordan Valley (Courtesy)
February 27, 2021, 5:23 am
Lungs of soldier killed by accidental gunshot transplanted to COVID patient
In first surgery of its kind in Israel, organs of Yonatan Granot, 22, are donated to man in his 60s whose lungs were wrecked by virus
By ToI Staff
Staff Sgt. Yonatan Granot, killed by an apparent accidental discharge from another serviceman’s weapon on a base in the Jordan Valley (Courtesy)
February 26, 2021, 11:27 am
IDF soldier accidentally shot at military base dies of his injuries
Staff Sgt. Yonatan Granot, 22, was struck in the head by a small munition normally used for riot dispersal; Ground Forces chief has halted all live-fire drills
By Emanuel Fabian
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
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
In this illustrative photo taken June 28, 2016, Dr. Matthew Cooper, left and Dr. Seyed Ghasemian transplant a donated kidney into Brenda Hudson at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
May 12, 2019, 4:26 am
Rabbis work to uproot taboo against organ donation
While Judaism sanctions the giving of organs to save lives, Jewish communities worldwide rank among the lowest by percentage of donors – both living and posthumous
By Cathryn J. Prince
Altruistic liver donor Rabbi Ephraim Simon, left, and recipient Adam Levitz meet prior to surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. (Courtesy Chabad)
January 3, 2019, 11:52 pm
Rabbi who gave kidney to stranger donates liver to another
Ephraim Simon, a 50-year-old father of nine and Chabad rabbi in New Jersey, says donation was ‘opportunity… to actually give the gift of life’
By Marcy Oster
Billboard in Times Square appealing for kidney donor for Marc Weiner on September 1, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)
September 2, 2018, 8:36 pm
NY man looking for kidney makes his plea on Times Square billboard
Marc Weiner lost both kidneys and bladder to aggressive cancer, needs dialysis three times a week; wants to raise awareness about organ donation
By JTA
Kenneth Brander
August 8, 2017, 2:43 pm
Kenneth Brander
Fathering children postmortem
Question: What does Jewish law call the dead man who helps create life? Answer: A father, according to some
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