67-year-old Sammy Shem-Tov appears to be the main suspect in an illegal organs-for-profit operation in Israel. Shem-Tov is described as a former employee of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
According to allegations, Shem-Tov persuaded donors to give body organs for payment, organs that were transplanted into patients connected to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
The lifting of the gag order in the case on Thursday permits the news of Shem-Tov’s arrest earlier in the week. He focused on the Russian-speaking population. He allegedly earned NIS hundreds of thousands from organ recipients, keeping most of the money, only paying a relatively small amount to the organ donors.
According to police, the preliminary workup of a potential donor was conducted in Eretz Yisrael but actual transplants would take place abroad, in China, S. America and the United States.
Police are indicating the illegal organ trafficking ring may be quite large.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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7 Responses
H’mmmm.
Organs, illegal trade, Haddassah.
Is it possible organs were taken GASP without payment?
Is it possible experiments were done on a certain Meah Sheorim child?
Just thinking out loud.
When did Shem-Tov become a former employee of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital?
poster#1 where DO you expect an “illegal organ trading network” to operate OTHER than secretly doing so within the confines of a hospital? what does a mother starving her kid have to do with organ trafficking? failing to see the connection…
Duh. Of course it would happen in a hospital.
BUT; Was he acting all alone?
(Alone in a public hospital is extra risk)
So therefore i think out loud, is there more behind this, or not?
Haddassah; payments; illegal.
Look at the Madoff affair for further answers.
Looks like he’s not going to have much of a Shem-Tov anymore.
Baal Boose seems to think that it is not surprising that an illegal organ trading group would operate in Hadassah, and immediately raises the connection with supposed experiments performed on children.
Why don’t we look to the last place where we found someone illegally trafficking in organs. Smack dab in the middle of the hareidi community. Shall we name names here?
See how easy it is to besmirch?