Yehuda Hiss

Yehuda Hiss
Prof. Hiss, 1996
Bornc. 1946
Poland
Medical career
ProfessionPathologist
InstitutionsAbu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine, Israel

Yehuda Hiss (born c. 1946) is a retired Israeli pathologist. He served as the Chief Pathologist at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine between 1988 and possibly as late as 2005.[1][2][3][citation needed] Hiss has also served as part of the faculty for the Terrorism and Medicine Program at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at IDC Herzliya and in the Department of Pathology for the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University.[4][5]

As director of the Institute at Abu Kabir, the only place in Israel authorized to conduct autopsies in cases of unnatural death, Hiss conducted the autopsies of and authored the pathology reports for notable figures, including Yitzhak Rabin and Rachel Corrie, among others.[6][7][8][9] His position as director was a subject of controversy.[10] He was dismissed from this position after the legal system took up some of the charges against him.[10][11] Investigations of the newspaper Al-Ahram, revealed that Hiss had removed organs, bones and other tissues from corpses, against the expressed wishes of family, and had sold many of the organs he removed to medical institutions and universities.[11] He remained the chief pathologist of the Institute and regained his position as director before being dismissed by the Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman on Oct 15 2012.[3]

  1. ^ Cole, 2007, p. 99.
  2. ^ Judy Siegel-Itzkovich (January 20, 2001). ""Sale of organs" to be investigated". BMJ: British Medical Journal. 322 (7279): 128. PMC 1173179.
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Hiss Evades Punishment". 26 September 2005.
  4. ^ "Terrorism and Medicine Program: Counter-Terrorism Studies Professional Certificate" (PDF). The Institute for Counter-Terrorism at IDC Herzliya. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
  5. ^ Shatz, A; Hiss, Y; Hammel, I; Arensburg, B; Variend, S (January 2009). "Age-related basement membrane thickening of the vocal cords in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)". The Laryngoscope. 104 (7): 865–868. doi:10.1288/00005537-199407000-00016. PMID 8022251. S2CID 40542772. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17.
  6. ^ Judy Siegel (December 28, 2000). "Foreign experts to inspect Abu Kabir forensic institute". Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
  7. ^ Mary Barrett (April 1990). "Autopsies and Executions". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA): 21. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ Husein Abu Husein; Advocate For the Plaintiffs. "In the District Court of Haifa". Habitat International Coalition. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
  9. ^ Harry de Quetteville in Jerusalem (November 6, 2005). "Rabin assassin demands new trial". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
  10. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Dube was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Cook was invoked but never defined (see the help page).