Last month, a member of Knesset became the 780th person to donate a kidney to a stranger under the auspices of the Matnat Chaim (Gift of Life) organization. His act indeed gave the gift of life to a recipient who would not have survived otherwise.
According to the Health Ministry, as of January there were 857 people waiting in Israel for a kidney. Ilan Chaim is one of them.
Read what Ilan Chaim, a former chief copy editor and editorial writer of The Jerusalem Post, has to say to kidney donors.
The article was published in the Jerusalem Post on march 15, 2020. Read the entire article >>>