Israeli health care

'Ecology of healing': Israel's October 7 trauma victims say the system is failing them

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: Experts say Israel’s war-trauma system must evolve from disability ratings to rehabilitation. Will the next Knesset prioritize reform?

Bereaved families, friends, and soldiers stand still as a two-minute siren sounds across Israel, marking Memorial Day which commemorates the fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terror at the site of the Nova music festival massacre, in Re'im forest, near the Israel-Gaza border, April 21.
Doctors at BGU’s Medical School, Assuta Ashdod (Illustrative).

‘Direct danger to Israel’s health’: Medical schools deans fight bill pushing for gender segregation

Red Cross workers prepare to lower the coffin of Dr Tibenderana Katho Blaise who worked at the Centre Medical Evangelique (CME) in Hoho commune and died of Ebola virus, at the Nyamurongo cemetery in Bunia town, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 26, 2026.

Israel rules out Ebola cases after suspected patients test negative

MediWound’s EscharEx treatment, which is being tested in a global study for chronic wounds that fail to heal.

Israeli treatment that spared burn surgeries now aims to save limbs


Sheba Medical Center to integrate Elbit thermal imaging technology

Sheba will implement Elbit’s thermal photography, which is best known for its role in the world of defense and aerospace and offers significant potential for healthcare.

‘Complete care in English and in Russian.’ Israel’s Sheba Media Center

Underfunding UNRWA will lead to its collapse, agency head warns

Lazzarini: It's not enough to renew the mandate, UN nations must provide funds for it. Failure to do so would "push the agency towards financial collapse."

 Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, visits Sheikh Jarrah on June 2.

Israel said to face severe shortage of radiologists

Many doctors currently working in the field are nearing the age of retirement, and there are fewer and fewer people choosing to specialize in the field of radiology.

A radiologist examines breast X-rays after a cancer prevention medical check-up at the Ambroise Pare hospital in Marseille

Violence against medical professionals must end - editorial

The public deserves to be safe at hospitals - this should be obvious considering that we only recently come out of a pandemic, and it is indicative of a much larger issue.

Healthcare workers, nurses and doctors, unified under the movement called "Take Care of Care" wearing face masks gesture during a protest against the Belgian authorities' management of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, at the MontLegia CHC Hospital in Liege, Belgium, May 15, 2020.

Israeli Orthodox rabbi who said children should get vaccinated receives threats

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky gave his support for the vaccine drive and said all children ages 5 and up should receive the coronavirus vaccine.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky seen at his home in the city of Bnei Brak, on March 17, 2021.

Israel’s health minister wants to make it easier to get abortions

“It should be a given — the rights to a woman’s body are the woman’s alone,” Israel's Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said.

 Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz pictured on August 13, 2021.

Three Israeli hospitals make Newsweek’s list of top cardiology centers

Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Hadassah University Medical Center and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center were featured in Newsweek's list of the world’s top cardiology centers.

Main entrance to the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer

COVID-19 and beyond: Health minister Horowitz’s top five challenges

MK Nitzan Horowitz is inheriting a ministry that suffered through a nearly year-and-a-half battle against a global pandemic.

Meretz Party chairman Nitzan Horowitz in Knesset preparations on April 5th.

Celebrities join the Israel Health Ministry to campaign for wearing masks

Appearing in advertisements for the Health Ministry, these videos have quickly gone viral in a mere number of days.

A health worker, wearing a protective suit and a face mask, administers a nasal swab to a patient in a temporary testing site for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Zenith Arena in Lille, France, October 26, 2020

Israeli pharmacist suspected of replacing medicine with baking soda

Once it was discovered that the pharmacist had been emptying capsules and replacing their contents, the health fund decided to report the pharmacist to the Health Ministry.

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