The Israeli Interior Minister , Eli Yishai , said that he would act to prevent the paper 's reporters from receiving work permits in Israel . The Welfare and Social Services Minister , Isaac Herzog , said that Israel should take legal steps against the paper . When asked why Israel did not investigate the article 's claims , Israel 's envoy to Sweden , Benny Dagan , said : " Why do n't we investigate why the Mossad and the Jews were behind the bombing of the twin towers ? Why wo n't we investigate why Jews are spreading AIDS in the Arab countries ? Why wo n't we investigate why Jews killed Christian children and took their blood and organs to bake matzot on Pessah ? " On 23 December 2009 , after Israeli government officials admitted that organ harvesting had taken place in the 1990s , parliamentary hearings into the issue began in Israel 's Knesset . Health officials testified that Israeli authorities had harvested organs from the dead bodies of Israelis and Palestinians in the 1990s for transplant purposes and said that the practice had since been ended . Ahmed Tibi , an Arab citizen of Israel , and a member of the Knesset , testified that he had evidence indicating that organ theft continued , citing the case of Fadul Ordul Shaheen , a Palestinian from Gaza who died of diabetes in 2009 . Tibi related that after Shaheen 's body was returned to his family with bleeding from the eyes and a deep cut through the body , the family said that both the corneas and kidneys were taken from his corpse . Tibi asked for the complaint to be investigated and also for a government probe on whether organs were being harvested from Palestinian prisoners in Israel . Yaacov Litzman , the deputy health minister , responded that he would investigate the case " with all seriousness "
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