Hiss became the director and chief pathologist at Abu Kabir in 1988 . As director of the Institute , Hiss was involved with high-profile cases . Hiss performed the autopsy on Yitzhak Rabin after his 1995 assassination ; his report was challenged in March 1999 by a group of Israeli academics . In May 2003 , he confirmed the identification of the body that washed ashore the beaches of Tel Aviv to be that of Omar Sharif , the accomplice of Asif Hanif , who carried out the Mike 's Place suicide bombing the month previous . Hiss told Haaretz that Sharif 's DNA was matched to samples provided by two British detectives and the cause of death was determined to be drowning . He also performed the autopsy on Rachel Corrie
Mike 's Place suicide bombing
Mike's Place suicide bombing
Yehuda Hiss