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Within two hours: Three bus crashes in southern Israel leave 37 injured, including IDF soldiers

Twenty-one people were injured near Mitzpe Ramon, 11 near the Nevatim junction, and another five near Ruhama.

Bus carrying IDF soldiers to base overturns near Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, February 26, 2026.
The Soroka Medical Center leads with an 85% satisfaction rate

Soroka Medical Center prepares for potential military conflict with Iran

Defense Minister Israel Katz presented the 2026 “Defense Minister’s Shield” to Soroka Medical Center.

Katz awards Soroka Medical Center with Defense Minister’s Shield for support of soldiers during war

A military helicopter and medical staff from Soroka and Joseftal hospitals evacuate a patient connected to an ECMO machine, February 14, 2026.

WATCH: IDF, Soroka, Joseftal hospitals carry out first-ever ECMO patient evacuation


19 arrested in large brawl at Soroka hospital in Beersheba

19 people have been arrested over a massive brawl which broke out at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on Sunday.

Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba

Conjoined twins, separated in Israel last month, leave hospital

The operation the children underwent is extremely rare – having been performed only about 20 times – and now, for the first time in Israel.

 Dr. Mickey Gideon Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Soroka University Medical Center and one of the lead surgeons of the operation, with the twins.

Israeli first: Doctors separate heads of one-year-old conjoined twins

"This is a very rare operation, performed so far in the world only about 20 times and for the first time in Israel, on one-year-old babies."

THE FIRST face-to-face meeting of newly separated conjoined twins. The operation to separate them was completed at Soroka-University Medical Center in Beersheba last month.

A special-needs child inspires her parents to spread love, acceptance

Eden was born premature in the 33rd week. By the time she was four months old, the young couple fought with their health medical organization to have her more closely supervised. Something was wrong.

 A GIFT: Omer, Shoham and daughter Eden.

New hospital protocol reduces invasive medical procedures in children

The procedure has seen a 90% efficiency rate in detecting foreign items in the airways of children, and the number of bronchoscopies performed in 2020 significantly decreased from previous years.

r. Inbal Golan Tripto, a specialist in pediatric pulmonary medicine and Dr. Shani Pozilov, who specializes in pediatrics in the Second Department of Pediatrics at the Saban Center for Pediatrics in Soroka.

Caring for patients’ spirits: Chaplains heal emotionally ailing at Soroka

The chaplaincy program at Soroka is one of the first of its kind in Israel.

BORUCH SIRIS at Soroka Medical Center. He jokes, ‘I get to wear a doctor’s jacket even though I didn’t go to medical school.

Soroka hospital closes coronavirus ICU after over a year

Some 185 coronavirus patients were treated in the ICU at Soroka during the outbreak, with 171 patients on ventilators.

STAYING CORONA-SAFE at Soroka

International Women's Day: The female doctors of Soroka

Brief profiles of five top physicians at Soroka Medical Center, part of Clalit Health Services

Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba

4-year-old airlifted to hospital after crocodile bite in southern Israel

"I heard screams - I went over and his hand looked like it had been torn off," the mother said.

A crocodile spotted in the northern moshav of Beit Hanania

Suicides of four Soroka physicians tied to stress on healthcare system

The committee said that hospital overcrowding and lack of staff was especially dire in the southern and northern periphery regions.

Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba