Fertility Preservation

Step 1: Understand Process

Understand how the application process works and the Malka Ella Fertility Fund terms and conditions for egg freezing.

Step 2: Collect Documents

Funding Criteria

To qualify for assistance, the following criteria must be met:

The applicant must either have been born Jewish or converted with the Johannesburg Beth Din.
The applicant must complete a confidential financial assessment.
The applicant must provide a motivation from the treating doctor with relevant blood results.
The applicant must sign the conditions of egg freezing letter.
The applicant must meet with the Malka Ella counsellor prior to the application being processed.
The Malka Ella Rabbi is required to sign off the procedure.
The procedure must be performed in a halachically acceptable manner.
The Fund covers ONLY 1 cycle of oocyte freezing at the maximum cost of R50 000 to the Fund.
Egg freezing will ONLY be funded, subject to approval, if the procedure is carried out at the Vitalab practice in Johannesburg.

Terms and Conditions

Conditions of receipt from the Malka Ella Fertility Fund are:

A Malka Ella appointed mashgicha must be present in the laboratory at all times when the procedure is being performed.
Sufficient notice must be provided to SHIFRA (Malka Ella division in charge of supervision), to ensure that a mashgicha is present at all procedures. The Fund will not pay for any procedures that are not supervised.
No procedures may be done on Shabbat or Yom Tov.
Funding and financial decisions are at the sole discretion of the coordinators of the Fund.
All payments are made directly to the doctor or hospital, and will only be actioned once a written quote or invoice is provided.
SHIFRA will retain record of the location of the stored oocytes.
Oocytes may only be used under supervision once the client is married according to Halacha, if not then the full cost of the oocyte freezing procedure must be reimbursed to the Fund.
If oocytes are no longer needed, they must be disposed of in the presence of a mashgicha.
Permission is given to the Fund to make contact with the treating doctor to discuss individual cases.

All information provided to the Fund is handled in the strictest confidence.

To process your application, Malka Ella requires several documents to me made available in a digital format along with your submission. Please make sure the following documents are available before filling in the application form.

Agreement Letter

Both the Agreement Letter and the Rabbi's Consent Form must be completed. These need to be filled in by yourself and Rabbi Gidon Fox, and then uploaded with your application. Rabbi Fox can be contacted on [email protected]

Download Agreement Letter

Download Rabbi Consent

Financial Documents

You need to do the following:

Download Financial spreadsheet
Complete Financial spreadsheet with all the relevant information
Upload Financial spreadsheet along with digital copies of all supporting financial documentation required.

Please ensure documents are labelled with your surname and description of the document. For example if your surname is Gold your financial form should be labelled "Gold financial form.xlsx"

Download Financial Spreadsheet

Financial Spreadsheet
Last 3 month bank statement
Last 3 month credit card statement
Last 3 month bond statement
Last 3 month salary slips

Step 3: Submit Application

Now that you understand the process and terms and conditions and have completed all the required documents, click on the button to begin the online application.

Start the Process