From Zaka to Abu Kabir? • Meshi-Zahav wants to succeed Professor Hiss

ZAKA Chairman Harav Yehuda Meshi Zahav announced this evening that he is considering submitting his candidacy to the management of the Forensic Medicine Institute - Abu Kabir.

Professor Yehuda Hiss, who was for years the omnipotent and controversial head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir, was dismissed yesterday (Monday).

His dismissal came following public criticism which arose as a result of the affair of organs saved in the institute.

At the same time of the dismissal announcement, a tender was published for the job of Hiss's successor - the management and operation of the Institute.

Tonight, ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi Zahav, announced that he is applying for the job. Meshi Zahav conducted for years a struggle against Prof. Hiss and against surgery of the dead.

"There is no reason that the Institute will not act according to Halacha, Jewish law provides a solution for every possibility," said Yehuda Meshi-Zahav to Behadrey Haredim. "I intend to primarily promote the use of the MRI device which we made sure to purchase and to determine the cause of death by digital scanning and not by invasive autopsy which is contrary to the law and violates the dignity of the dead and the living."

Meshi-Zahav explains that there is no contradiction between his ZAKA job and the job at the institute: "On the contrary, only people who are sensitive to and trained in respect for the dead could bring back public confidence in the Institute."

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