Israel's new Transplantation Law deals with the allocation of cadaver organs, which makes for a poingant issue in Isreali society where some Orhodox rabbis eschew the notion of brain-death and thus prohibiting donation while some philosophers have denounced the new rule, arguing that it violates a fundamental principle of medical ethics. Some proponents of the new law grant that this is a regrettable departure from received medical ethics, but assert that it is justified by the necessity of increasing Israel's notoriously low consent rate for organ donation.
Dr. Noam Zohar will argue instead that the new rule involves no ethical violation; rather, granting donation priority is entirely justified and ought to be adopted everywhere.