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Journal articles about us

Death anxiety and psychological distress post-donation in non-directed living kidney donors

Death Studies 25 Mar 2019 Click here to read the article >>>  

The Effect of a 26-Hour Fast in Living Kidney Donors

Transplantation Proceedings 26 August 2021 Click here to read the full article >>> Click here to read the article

Exploring the motives of Israeli Jews who were living kidney donors to strangers

Clinical Transplantation 11 July 2020 Click here to read the article >>>

University of Chicago

The Paradox of Organ Donations among Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel

Transplantation 29 September 2022   Click here to read the article >>> 

Transplantation Article

Conditional Altruistic Living-Donor Kidney Donation in Israel and Its Impact on Living-Donor Kidney Transplant Growth

Transplantation September 2022 Click here to read the article >>>

The American Sociologist

Beyond Altruism – The Moral Economy of Israelis Who Donated A Kidney to Strangers

The American Sociologist 2 September 2022 Click here to read the article >>>

Kidney donor reimbursements

Matnat Chaim's role in kidney donations after the 2008 law reimbursing kidney donors. CQ Researcher, June 24, 2022

Kidney Transplantation during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in Israel

Transplantology, October 19, 2021

Transplantation Model- Analytical Review: A Strategic Proposal and Moral Obligation

ResearchGate, October 15, 2020

Report on article in BMC Nephrology

Report on article about Matnat Chaim in BMC Nephrology

Breaking Israel News, June 14, 2018; Israel 21c, September 16, 2018.

Emergence of an Israel faith-based community organization facilitating live donor kidney transplantation

BMC Nephrology, June 2018

Altruism and Religion: A New Paradigm for Organ Donation

Journal of Religion and Health, September 7, 2017

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Matnat Chaim is an organization in Israel that is dedicated to encouraging individuals found suitable for making a life-saving kidney donation, and focuses exclusively on altruistic i.e. voluntary donations. The organization functions on a voluntary, not-for-profit basis. The sole motive that drives the volunteers of the organization is the desire and willingness to help others and save lives.

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Matnat Chaim is a registered Israeli charity operating as a non-profit organization and without any benefit. Any service provided to patients and their families, and any form of assistance given by Matnat Chaim, is provided free of charge, without request for recompense in any way. Activity is modest and frugal, with maximum savings on office expenses. The expenses for running the organization are mainly for financing advertising and publicity, in order to increase public awareness of the possibility to donate a kidney to save a life.
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