Israel

Report slams Israeli doctors’ complicity in torture

Michael Cook | 12 November 2011

Some Israeli doctors have cooperated in the torture and mistreatment of prisoners, according to a report by two human rights organisations, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and the Public Committee against Torture in Israel. Their claims are based on more than 100 cases of ill treatment of Palestinian detainees since 2007.

Israeli children who sue for being born

Jared Yee | 03 November 2011

Israeli children with birth defects increasingly sue medical authorities for allowing them to be born.

World first as Israel court allows egg extraction from deceased woman

Jared Yee | 11 August 2011

An Israeli court has allowed the parents of a dead 17-year-old woman to remove her eggs for future use.

Surrogate motherhood not only for barren parents: Israeli court

Jared Yee | 29 July 2011

The number of children a couple already has is not a sufficient reason to reject a surrogate motherhood application, Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled this week.

Israel leads the world in IVF

Jared Yee | 22 July 2011

The Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv is one of the busiest IVF clinics in the world, with 7,000 cycles each year.

Israeli feminists slate surrogacy

Jared Yee | 12 June 2011

The Israeli feminist group Isha L’Isha has published a harshly critical report on surrogate motherhood.

South African hospital guilty of illegal kidney trading

Jared Yee | 21 November 2010

More organ trading nightmares

Israel stunned by organ scandal

Michael Cook | 04 January 2010

Anger and suspicion in Arab world

Holders of transplant donor cards will have priority in Israel

Michael Cook | 04 January 2010

First country in world