Adoption

Health Ministry revokes IVF licenses over embryo mix-up

The ministry said the sanctions followed serious management failures and procedural violations that led to the incident. Both employees have 30 days to appeal the ruling.

An embryo in the 9th to 10th week.
 A new pet matchmaking app

Thinking of adopting a dog? Meet the Tinder for pets

 One of the pairs of shelter dogs from the study. These dogs chose to cuddle, even though they were offered separate beds.

Finding a ‘shidduch’ for dogs in shelters can reduce their stress and make them more adoptable 

 Neonatal incubator (illustrative).

Stolen child reunites with birth mother after 42 years apart


Amir Ohana votes against coalition on LGBTQ+ rights bill

Ohana was given the leeway to vote against the coalition in the cases of LGBTQ+ rights as part of the initial coalition agreements. 

 Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana with his husband and children at a Likud faction meeting following the swearing in of the new government, December 29, 2022.

American airline offers free flights to people who adopt kittens

An American animal charity foundation named three tiny kittens after airline names in America.

 Illustrative image of three kittens.

30-year-old babies: Twins born after breaking record of longest-frozen embryos

Lydia and Timothy Ridgway, twins born on October 31, 2022, hold the record for the longest-frozen embryos ever born alive, according to the National Embryo Donation Center.

Babies (Illustrative)

Tennessee court dismisses lawsuit on adoption law religious bias

The Rutan-Rams charged that an adoption agency had told them it went against the agency’s values to place the child in a non-Christian home.

 Tennessee state flag

If only everyone could see the beauty and diversity of Israel - opinion

The writer has an adopted sister from Hong Kong, and her family waited to meet her in the Jerusalem Room in the Hong Kong children's home.

 AN ISRAELI flag with a Magen David on top of it appears in the foreground of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Israeli gov't supports nixing adoption discrimination against LGBTQ+ parents

The government committed to amending the discriminative adoption law against LGBTQ+ people in 2017.

People wave signs saying "Israel says yes to equality at an LGBTQ+ demonstration.

Christian adoption agency denies Jewish couple in Tennessee

Jewish couple Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram hoped to adopt a boy from Florida and raise him Jewish – though a Christian adoption agency had other plans.

 Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram went to court after an adoption agency disqualified them for being Jewish.

Christian adoption agency in US refuses to help Jewish couple

A Jewish couple in Tenessee is suing after a state-funded adoption agency refused to help them adopt a child because of their religion.

General view of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, US, September 22, 2020

Dog adoption at an all time low in 2021, records show

Dog adoption rates decreased by 38% in 2021 from the previous year.

 Toy, a 10-year-old pug, was abandoned in just the last two weeks.

Meretz MK refuses to apologize for call for settler leader's kids to be taken

Mossi Raz stated that the children of settler leader Itai Zar should be taken and given to an adoptive family.

Meretz MKs Michal Rozin and Mossi Raz on a tour of West Bank outposts on Thursday with Peace Now