Israeli health news

Where research becomes impact: Bar-Ilan University’s healthtech vision

As its 70th anniversary approaches, Bar-Ilan’s innovation strategy sets it on a journey with Sheba Medical Center, from the lab bench and clinical research to advancing health worldwide

HealthTech Valley is on the grounds of Bar-Ilan University, a joint effort by Bar-Ilan and Sheba
 Illustrative photo of a premature birth

MDA evacuates premature infants ahead of expected Iranian retaliation

 Tzeela Gez, the pregnant woman wounded in a terror attack and succumbed to her wounds, May 15, 2025.

Organ donation by Tzeela Gez, murdered in West Bank shooting, brings hope amid tragedy

Highly contagious disease. Child with measles.

WHO warns: Measles outbreak spreading alarmingly  


Coronavirus in Israel: What do we know about the 143 hospitalized people?

Of the 143 hospitalized patients, 58% were vaccinated, 39% were not at all, and 3% were partially vaccinated.

A technician collects swab samples for COVID-19, at a testing center run by the Tel Aviv municipality in cooperation with Tel haShomer hospital, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on July 20, 2021.

Alroy-Preis maintains: Preschools cannot open Sunday

Other Health Ministry officials disagree

Head of Public Health Services Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis addresses the press. 12.10.2020

Student struggles to fund her mother's only life-saving cancer treatment

Riben has been struggling to find a way to fund an alternative cancer treatment that costs NIS 25,000 every three weeks.

A patient receives chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer

Is a home coronavirus test on its way?

Hod Hasharon-based BATM Advanced Communications Limited announced that they have developed a new diagnostic kit to detect the novel coronavirus and that the idea of creating a home test is under discussion.

Coronavirus diagnostic kit by BATM

Innovative new Osteoporosis treatment arrives at Hadassah Ein Kerem

"The drug to our delight is entering the "drug basket" of 2020 and that's a great thing for patients suffering from severe osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis Locations. Animation in the reference. Image provided by Blausen Medical Center

Health Ministry D-G commits to NIS 500m. 'health basket' addition

Despite ongoing financial instability, director-general Moshe Bar Siman Tov said it was imperative that medical treatments are funded.

Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman Tov

Map of the human heart

Talking with the TAU professor whose team just achieved a biological milestone: 3D-printing a heart using human tissue and vessels.

‘OUR HOPE is that we’ll be able to save as many people’s lives as possible.’

Health technology: Are medical devices protected?

Once a hacker gets through a hospital’s firewall, they don’t often come up against any other lines of defense protecting medical devices.

BGU’s Prof. Amos Katz

Israel's Sheba Medical Center one of 10 best hospitals in world - report

"We are proud and excited to have been chosen by Newsweek magazine to appear on this prestigious list of elite hospitals around the globe."

An aerial photo of Sheba Medical Center-Tel Hashomer.

YouTube star and health advocate Claire Wineland passes away at 21

“The quality of our life is not determined by whether we are healthy or sick but by what we have to offer to the world around us.”

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