The Chief Rabbinate has frozen a tender it had issued for establishing a service to help families establish brain death for their loved ones, after transplant surgeons said they would not tolerate rabbinic involvement.
Israel's Chief Rabbinate freezes plan to help decide brain death, after surgeons protest
Under dispute is the setting up of an office that would operate 24/7 helping families seeking halakhic and medical guidance in determining brain death.
By Dan Even • Ha’aretz
The Chief Rabbinate has frozen a tender it had issued for establishing a service to help families establish brain death for their loved ones, after transplant surgeons said they would not tolerate rabbinic involvement.
The tender under dispute was for setting up an office, with the rabbinate's help, that would operate 24/7 for families seeking halakhic and medical guidance in determining brain death, so they could give permission for their loved ones' organs to be harvested for transplant.
The tender was frozen at the request of Health Ministry Director General Prof. Roni Gamzu, who asked for three months to re-examine the issue, after consulting with Chief Rabbinate Director General Oded Weiner.
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