The Israeli health ministry has ordered the immediate closure of the L.B. IVF Clinic in Tel Aviv, after an investigation revealed embryos imported from Georgia and carrying the haemophilia B variant had been transferred there (see BioNews 1232).
Initially the clinic and the two fertility clinic staff arrested had not been named due to a court order, but Times of Israel has reported the Tel Aviv District Court named Professor David Bider, co-director of the clinic, as one of the arrestees.