“Leading Israeli kidney donation nonprofit Matnat Chaim has continued the legacy of its co-founder Rabbi Yeshayahu Heber, who died at age 55 of COVID-19 last April, marking 1,000 transplants this week.
“We broke an unprecedented world record,” his widow and the organization’s co-founder, Rachel Heber, said in a television interview.
“I knew this was his desire and his wish was not to leave me, but it was obvious our lifework must continue,” she told Channel 13 news.
The kidney donation organization the Hebers founded in 2009, Matnat Chaim (Gift of Life), facilitates voluntary kidney donations in Israel and celebrated its 1000th transplant, with some 200 of them taking place over the past year.
In 2018, the BioMed Central (BMC) Nephrology Medical Journal called Matnat Chaim “a major force for arranging living donor kidney transplantation, mainly by facilitating altruistic living unrelated donor transplantation.”
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