Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Fast Forward

Dad Gets Kidney Transplant From Daughter Who Died In Horseback Accident

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli man received a kidney transplant from his daughter who died in an accident while vacationing abroad.

Moshe Shimnoni, 66, came out of surgery on Tuesday for the kidney transplant as his daughter, Orit Gur, 44, was being buried in Israel, the Israeli Hebrew-language daily newspaper Yediot Acharonot reported Wednesday.

Gur, who died in a horseback riding accident in Georgia, is survived by a husband and children ages 20 and 16.

She was flown back to Israel after the accident for treatment but died there. Her heart, second kidney and liver were transplanted into other patients.

She had signed an organ donor card, called an Adi card, several years ago, according to reports.

“We promised each other a few years ago that if something happened to one of us, we’d donate our organs. Orit, you did exactly as you’d wanted, giving life to other people,” her husband, Lior, said in his eulogy, the Times of Israel reported.

לאחר מותה של אורית גור, שנהרגה מנפילה מסוס בגיאורגיה, תושתל כלייתה באביה, משה שמעוני. הניתוח יתקיים בביה”ח בלינסון @almazmangisto pic.twitter.com/9xmia6YNnU

— חדשות 10 (@news10) October 17, 2017

A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse..

Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.

—  Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO

Join our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.