Save a Child’s Heart

'When I grow up, I want to be like you': remembering Morris Kahn's most productive years - opinion

Founder of the Genesis Prize Stan Polovets on why your seventies and eighties – and even nineties – can be your most impactful years.

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FOUNDER OF the Genesis Prize Stan Polovets, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and Morris Kahn in 2019.
AWO AND Sumaya from Somaliland with Israeli volunteer Ella in the middle.

Medical ties linked Israel and Somaliland years before formal recognition

For more than two decades, the Israeli NGO Save a Child’s Heart has provided cardiac care to children from Somaliland, bringing patients to Israel for surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Thirteen pediatric and heart patients from Zambia are spending Christmas in Israel as part of SACH’s humanitarian medical program, which provides free cardiac surgery to children from developing countries.

Zambian children celebrate Christmas in Israel after Save a Child's Heart surgeries

Thirteen pediatric and young heart patients from Zambia are spending Christmas in Israel after receiving free cardiac surgery as part of the Save a Child's Heart program in Holon.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Heart attack (Illustrative).

More people are at risk of heart failure worldwide, researchers say

Two out of 100 Israelis, Europeans, North Americans at risk for dangerous heart failure, according to researchers.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Israeli NGO performs 5,555th lifesaving surgery on Palestinian toddler

"I was sure that my son was sick, that if he had access to the right treatment he could be healed," the child's mother said.

NOVEMBER 8, 2020ByZACHARY KEYSER
Mahmad seen pictured at Wolfson Medical Center after receiving treatment

A British 11-year old will walk 26 miles to save other children's hearts

Amelie's goal: 60,000 steps for 60,000 heartbeats.

NOVEMBER 2, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Amelie Anderson

Yuli Edelstein visits new Sylvan Adams Children's Hospital in Holon

The construction of the new building was funded by Save a Child's Heart donors from Israel and around the world. The medical center will help treat children with heart diseases as it will be used as an International Pediatric Center.

AUGUST 4, 2020ByDANIEL NISINMAN
Health Minister's visit to the Sylvan Adams Children's Hospital

Baby girl from Gaza saved by team of Israeli, Palestinian doctors

Lama was diagnosed with a heart defect that results in abnormal blood flow between two of the major arteries connected to the heart, a condition which requires medical intervention.

MAY 18, 2020ByZACHARY KEYSER
Lama, a six-month-old baby girl from Gaza who underwent lifesaving heart surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel

The Critical Need For Lifesaving EpiPens In Israel

One recent evening, a babysitter was looking after some children in their home

DECEMBER 25, 2019ByUNITED HATZALAH

Israeli prison officer donates liver lobe, saves life of Jordanian child

“I’m just happy it worked out. My act has a significant impact; I wanted to save a life.”

AUGUST 8, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Doctors at Assauta Ashdod hospital

Save a Child's Heart creates small miracles

“I owe my life to this incredible NGO."

JULY 12, 2019BySHLOMO MAITAL
Balkis and her daughter, Fatma, from Tanzania

Save a Child's Heart treats three Kurdish children in Israel

The three children requiring treatment are aged five, two and 11 months old.

JUNE 12, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
President Reuven Rivlin visits children treated for Save a Child's Heart

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JUNE 10, 2019ByMEIR PANIM

Save a Child’s Heart performs its 5,000th life-saving surgery

The Israeli NGO has treated children from 59 countries, including more than 2,500 Palestinian patients.

MAY 24, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Iraqi child receives emergency treatment at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon