birth_place profession work_institutions birth_date article_title name
poland pathologist abu kabir institute of forensic medicine , israel c. 1946 yehuda hiss
 yehuda hiss
yehuda hiss

yehuda -lrb- also , jehuda -rrb- hiss -lrb- born c. 1946 -rrb- is a retired israeli pathologist .
he served as the chief pathologist at the abu kabir institute of forensic medicine between 1988 and october 15 , 2012 .
hiss has also served as part of the faculty for the terrorism and medicine program at the institute for counter-terrorism -lrb- ict -rrb- at idc herzliya and in the department of pathology for the sackler faculty of medicine at tel aviv university .
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 .
his position as director was a subject of controversy .
he was dismissed from this position after the legal system took up some of the charges against him .
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 .
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 .
