Health Minister Nissim Dahan discussed with Arutz-7 today his not-quite suspension of Abu Kabir Forensic Institute Director Prof. Yehuda Hiss. \"My predecessor in this office, Roni Milo, appointed a commission of inquiry. It completed its work before Pesach, and submitted its findings to me. The findings were highly critical of Prof. Hiss... I sent the findings to Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein, and there is likely to be a police investigation as well...\" Dahan said that it was not appropriate for him to suspend Hiss, \"but I appointed someone [Dr. Yitzchak Berlovitz] above him, such that he is no longer in the powerful position that he was until now...\"
The report, 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 transferring many of the organs to research institutes, sometimes for money, and by replacing them with other objects in the bodies; and that the required agreement from the families was not obtained, nor were proper records kept.
Arutz-7\'s Ariel Kahane noted that State Pathologist Hiss generally decides Israel\'s pathological-legal questions, and many people are now in prison based on his findings. The Segelson report is not the first time Hiss\' professional standards have been 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 and his examination of Yitzchak Rabin the night of the assassination.
The report, 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 transferring many of the organs to research institutes, sometimes for money, and by replacing them with other objects in the bodies; and that the required agreement from the families was not obtained, nor were proper records kept.
Arutz-7\'s Ariel Kahane noted that State Pathologist Hiss generally decides Israel\'s pathological-legal questions, and many people are now in prison based on his findings. The Segelson report is not the first time Hiss\' professional standards have been 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 and his examination of Yitzchak Rabin the night of the assassination.