Members - Ilan Lavi Donates a Kidney – And Gets a Happiness Transplant

major feature of clinical nephrology practice in Israel for me has been the increasing availability of altruistic kidney transplants over the past number of years. This effort has been largely the result of one organization, Matnat Chaim and the effort of one man, Rabbi Yeshayahu Heber. Rabbi Heber started the organization ~11 years ago after successfully obtaining a kidney transplant for himself. I found this such a striking worldwide anomaly, that I wrote a summary of the efforts of the organization in BMC Nephrology in 2018. https://bmcnephrol.biomedcentral.com/…. Rabbi Heber passed away suddenly last year of coronavirus infection and the organization has continued stronger than ever under the direction of his wife. The enclosed short film is the story of one man who benefited. I wish to publicize this with the hope that other organizations might emulate these activities. This film including subtitles was just completed specifically for the WCN.