Abu Kabir Forensic Institute

[2][3] The lab at Abu Kabir conducts forensic examination in cases of rape, homicide, suicide and suspicious death.

At the institute, about 2,000 tests are conducted every year on the remains of people who died unexpectedly, in order to find out the cause of death by autopsy.

The main areas of research at the institute include sudden and unexpected infant death, alternative methods for examining bodies, identification of remains, domestic violence and war and gunshot wounds.

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[4] from 125 bodies in the 1990s.

In an interview with an Israeli newspaper, Boström said his allegations were based on hearsay: "What I experienced during this day is many people from Israel who called me haven't read the article.

[12][8][13] The ministry says that for the past decade, procedures carried out at Abu Kabir have conformed with ethics and Jewish law,[14] and all organ removal is done with permission.

In December 2015, Dr. Maya Forman-Resnick, a forensic pathologist, gave an interview to the investigative program Uvda ("Fact"), where she repeated her previous accusation of the institute of falsifying scientific data and altering pathology reports to support the prosecution in criminal cases.

[18] He added, "Only in a totalitarian country does the state seek to turn the forensic institute into a rubber stamp for the prosecution's caprices.