Seven months after the issuance of a report that was \"highly critical\" - in the words of Health Minister Nissim Dahan - of Abu Kabir Forensic Institute Director Prof. Yehuda Hiss, Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein has ordered a police investigation into Hiss\' activities. The original report, jointly written by former Justice Aryeh Segelson, two doctors, and three medical professors, states that large quantities of corpse organs are stored in Abu Kabir; that Hiss and his workers \"violated the concept of honoring the dead and their families\" by replacing many organs in the bodies with other objects and by transferring many of the organs to research institutes, sometimes for money; and that he did so without obtaining the consent of the families.
When the report was issued, Arutz-7\'s Ariel Kahane noted that it was State Pathologist Hiss who generally decides Israel\'s pathological-legal questions, and that many people went to prison based on his findings. The Segelson report was not the first time Hiss\' professional standards were publicly maligned. Jerusalem District Court Judge Ruth Orr sharply criticized Hiss last year in the Nachum Korman case, writing that Hiss \"was carried away by his desire to find the exact cause of the death... and ignored important pathological findings that did not correspond with this desire.\" Hiss has also been publicly criticized for his work on the Margalit Omeisi-Tsila Levine case - a mother and daughter who said they were separated in the early 1950\'s when Tsila became one of the missing Yemenite children - and his examination of Yitzchak Rabin on the night of the assassination.
When the report was issued, Arutz-7\'s Ariel Kahane noted that it was State Pathologist Hiss who generally decides Israel\'s pathological-legal questions, and that many people went to prison based on his findings. The Segelson report was not the first time Hiss\' professional standards were publicly maligned. Jerusalem District Court Judge Ruth Orr sharply criticized Hiss last year in the Nachum Korman case, writing that Hiss \"was carried away by his desire to find the exact cause of the death... and ignored important pathological findings that did not correspond with this desire.\" Hiss has also been publicly criticized for his work on the Margalit Omeisi-Tsila Levine case - a mother and daughter who said they were separated in the early 1950\'s when Tsila became one of the missing Yemenite children - and his examination of Yitzchak Rabin on the night of the assassination.