Shaare Zedek Medical Center

WhatsApp founder Jan Koum makes largest-ever donation to Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek hospital

With an unprecedented $200 million donation from the Koum Family Foundation, SZMC will build a huge 800-bed hospitalization tower over the next six years and fill the entire space within a decade.

Shaare Zedek’s Director-General Prof. Ofer Merin (L) and President Prof. Jonathan Halevy, previous director-general for 31 years, who solicited Koum’s donation.
New Shaare Zedek Hospital medical tower planned for Jerusalem.

WhatsApp co-founder gives Shaare Zedek $200m in record Israeli hospital donation

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Jerusalem razes Elie Wiesel Plaza for NIS 73m. underground passage to Shaare Zedek

Illustrative image of a baby girl to frame story of 9-month-old who died in Shaare Zedek after choking. February, 2026.

Nine-month-old baby rushed to Shaare Zedek after choking, passes away despite resuscitation efforts


7 Israeli hospitals to switch to emergency mode due to financial crisis

Beginning Wednesday, Jerusalem’s Hadassah and other facilities will only accept patients in need of life-saving treatments.

 Shaare Zedek hospital.

Grapevine: New leadership

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Isaac Herzog, a man with much political experience.

Meet the doctor bringing hope to the world of medicine

Growing up, Prof. Ben Corn dreamt of finding a cure for the prostate cancer that killed his father.

 PROF. BEN CORN: ‘We must incorporate the vision of a more holistic approach to cancer care.’

Couple who lost child in Ofra Junction attack give birth to baby boy

The Ish-Rans, who lost their child in a terrorist attack, returned to Shaare Zedek this week to welcome a new baby.

Medical staff from the maternity and trauma teams at Shaare Zedek Medical Center congratulate the Ish-Rans upon the birth of their new son.

COVID antibodies start to decline in kids after only 4 months – study

According to researchers, these findings may indicate that children have a weaker long-term immune response to COVID-19.

This undated transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus parti

20 years later, Sbarro attack victims dedicate Shaare Zedek delivery room

Meir Schijveschuurder who experienced the attack as a 17 year old, expressed that the choice to dedicate a delivery room reflected “circle of life."

Siblings Chaya and Meir Schijveschuurder meet with medical personnel who treated them in the wake of Sbarro terror attack 20 years ago.

Cardiology breakthrough at Shaare Zedek: Heart defect repaired with stitch

In a first for Israeli medicine, doctors repaired a heart defect with a stitch and no implant.

A medical team that repaired a heart defect in a 38-year-old woman at Shaare Zedek Medical Center without implanting a foreign object in her body.

Shaare Zedek performs life saving surgery on 4-year-old boy

The boy, Omran, was hit by a car driving over 130 kilometers an hour and as a result, developed a rare and complex spinal fracture.

Omran laying in the hospital

Israeli scientists aim to ‘see’ cancer in our blood

A new collaboration between an Israeli biotech company, Sight Diagnostics, and Shaare Zedek aims to provide early detection of blood cancers by analyzing images of blood cells.

The team at Sight Diagnostics working

Crack near Shaare Zedek sinkhole threatens additional collapse - WATCH

Video footage revealed a massive crack on a road near the hospital Tuesday afternoon.

JERUSALEM’S Shaare Zedek Medical Center