August 11, 2026 - The institute is the only recognized ... in forensic medicine. In 2005, the then chief pathologist Yehuda Hiss, director of Abu Kabir from 1988 to 2004, admitted, as part of a plea bargain, to the unauthorized removal of organs, bone and tissue from 125 bodies in the 1990s. Israel said that such activity stopped in 2000. In 2009, Abu Kabir was mentioned in a controversial article in ...

A Haaretz headline ran the next day: “Autopsy of Palestinian Who Died in [IOF] Custody Shows He Was Not Beaten.” A Palestinian doctor, Rayan al-Ali, was in attendance at Abu Kabir and disputed this assessment, instead concluding, in line ...

January 8, 2024 - The director of Israel’s Abu Kabir Forensic Institute has rejected claims that the identification of the bodies of those who died in Friday morning’s deadly stampede at Mount Meron had been delayed.

October 2, 2024 - Facing this deluge of controversy, Bostrom defended his article while admitting he wasn’t sure he had adequate evidence but hoped the article would elicit enough interest to start an investigation. ... In the 1990s, one Israeli facility (the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute) took organs from IDF soldiers, Israeli civilians, Palestinians, foreign workers, and others whose corpses came into the Institute, without seeking permission from the families of the deceased.

October 16, 2023 - Forensic experts in the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute explain shocking footage while saying they've never experienced anything like Hamas' attack; Ynet decided not to display the footage or describe its content

Military rabbinate reportedly wants to repeat forensic examination, which religious services ministry opposes; issue said set for decision in a committee over coming days

November 26, 2017 - Aftonbladet quoted Palestinians as saying young men from the West Bank and Gaza Strip had been seized by the Israeli forces and their bodies returned to their families with missing organs. The interview with Hiss was released by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley who had conducted a study of Abu Kabir.

March 17, 2024 - The crisis at the Institute of Forensic Medicine has been ongoing for many years: the institute, located in Abu Kabir in Tel Aviv, suffers from inadequate standards and a heavy workload that worsened after the October 7 massacre.

November 14, 2002 - The director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir, Dr. Yehuda Hiss, violated the law on anatomy and pathology, according to a police investigation.

October 22, 2023 - Kugel was far from the only one who got emotional when discussing the evident travesty. “We disassociate because we need to work, but from time to time it gets to you,” Dr. Nurit Bublil, head of Abu Kabir’s DNA laboratory, told The Media Line.

November 16, 2012 - Ministry officials explain this job demands a great deal more than basic forensics and there are few who are qualified to fill the post. A former senior official from Abu Kabir is quoted anonymously by the daily Yisrael HaYom explaining that a new leader will change nothing �for the facility is deeply entrenched in the bureaucracy of the 60s and 70s, lacking a basic dignity for the deceased.

Forensic teams begin identification after thousands gather to honor convoy carrying 4 hostages’ remains; 85-year-old's family confirms his identity, mourning the loss; Hamas claims other victims are Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas

October 17, 2023 - Staff at Abu Kabir work 24/7 along with colleagues in IDF and police to identify victims of mass butchery by Hamas terrorists; in some cases identification likely impossible

The bodies of six Israeli hostages recovered from Gaza on Tuesday had bullet wounds, according to preliminary forensic analysis.

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Abu Kabir Forensic Institute Bodies of 4 Presumed Israeli Hostages, Including Bibas Family, Returned From Gaza

June 3, 2012 - deepens: Dozens of organs and tissue samples of bodies autopsied at the Abu Kabir Institute for Forensic Medicine were buried in a mass grave without notification to or permission from the families of the deceased, Ynet learned Sunday.

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The Abu Kabir Institute is the only facility in Israel authorized to conduct autopsies in cases of unnatural death.[2][3] The lab at Abu Kabir conducts forensic examination in cases of rape, homicide, suicide and suspicious death.