MIDDLE EAST

ISRAEL

�        �Law 5759-1999 - Prohibition of Genetic Intervention (Human Cloning and Genetic Manipulation of Reproductive����������� Cells)� (1999, amended March 2004).

�Purpose of Law

 1. The purpose of this Law is to determine a prescribed period of five years during which no kind of genetic intervention shall be performed on human beings in order to examine the moral, legal, social and scientific aspects of such kinds of intervention and the implications of such for human dignity.�

�Definitions

2. In this Law

(�) Human cloning - the creation of a complete human being, chromosomally and genetically absolutely identical to another person or fetus, living or dead;

Reproductive cell � human spermatozoon or ovum.�

�Genetic intervention prohibited

3. Throughout the period during which this Law is in force, no person shall perform any act of intervention in the cells of any person with one of the following purposes:

(1) Human cloning;

(2) Causing the creation of a person by use of reproductive cells that have undergone a permanent intentional genetic modification (Germ Line Gene Therapy).�