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Israel’s 2008 organ-transplant package created a tightly regulated, incentive-based system: it criminalized organ trafficking, banned insurer reimbursement for illegal transplant tourism, defined brai...
Israeli rabbinical authorities have begun to use DNA evidence in some cases—mostly mitochondrial or kinship testing—to help resolve doubts about Jewish status, but the practice is contested and not de...
Israel’s Genetic Information Law (5761–2000) established strict controls on collection, processing and disclosure of genetic data when it was passed in 2000 and has since been enforced through adminis...
Most mainstream halakhic authorities maintain that rebuilding the Temple should await the coming of the Messiah or divine providence rather than human-initiated action, though a minority of rabbis and...