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  


Hadassah hospital to expand pediatric bone marrow transplant unit

The new expanded unit will enable Hadassah to provide life-saving treatments to 51 additional children every year.

Bone marrow 370

Nurses strike in response to violence towards healthcare workers

No recommendations have been implemented in the attempts to eradicate violence. The Israeli Histadrut of nurses declared: “It is unthinkable that a nurse could go to work and end up in the E.R.”

Nurses protest at Haifa University 370

A higher calling: How Israeli marijuana research changed the world

“The problem is that for many years, marijuana was put on the [same] scale as cocaine and morphine.”

Marijuana plants

Summer hazards for kids

Health professionals answer your questions.

A boy at the beach in the summer (Illustrative)

Sick? Injured? Get to your health fund

The final months of 2017 were tough on the health of the people in Zion

Israeli health funds logo

District court mediates end to paramedical workers’ strike

During the hearing, the judge expressed solidarity with the workers’ struggle.

Histadrut protest [File]

Sheba Medical Center staff ’s Holocaust encounter in Poland

“We came here to say to those who were murdered here, you did not perish or sacrifice yourself in vain."

Yitzhak Kreiss, Director General of Sheba Medical Center

Health Ministry to give flu shots to northern schoolchildren

A special subcommittee of the Knesset Children’s Rights Committee was outraged over the ministry’s intention to discriminate against the periphery.

Vaccination against the flu

Pluristem’s potential new breakthrough

Haifa company weeks away from presenting clinical trial results that could ‘generate hope’ for patients suffering from untreatable vascular disease.

Biologists work in a laboratory at Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. in Haifa

New law says Israeli schools must always have Epipens on site

“The cost of syringes is lower than that of the cookies placed in the teachers’ room."

EpiPen auto-injection epinephrine pens manufactured by Mylan NV pharmaceutical company for use by severe allergy sufferers are seen in Washington, U.S. August 24, 2016.