Israeli hospitals

Hospitals across Israel begin transferring patients to protected underground units

The opening of the campaign against Iran this morning has put Israel’s health system on a wartime footing. The Health Ministry instructed hospitals to transfer inpatients to protected areas.

 Israeli soldiers and medical staff at the underground hospital at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, on September 22, 2024.
 An ambulance is seen at the entrance to the emergency room of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer in Ramat Gan, Israel, July 15, 2023.

Israel's Sheba Hospital ranks seventh in list of world's best hospitals for Newsweek and Statista

Silber family members with Shaare Zedek Medical Center staff.

Shaare Zedek Medical Center opens new center for reservists, first responders

Private medicine in Israel (illustrative)

How Medica quietly launched a private hospital network in Israel


Israel targets 'smart' cities with new 5G mobile auction

Fifth-generation technology is 10 times faster than widespread 4G and rolling it out would improve Internet access in city centers.

A Samsung employee poses with the new Samsung Galaxy S10 5G smartphone at a press event in London, Britain February 20, 2019.

Hadassah Medical Center makes Newsweek’s list of top cardiology centers

Newsweek magazine has selected the Cardiology and Oncology (Sherett Institute) Divisions of Hadassah Medical Center for their list of the best hospitals in the world.

Hadassah University Medical Center

Sheba Medical Center ranked among world's smartest hospitals

Newsweek, in partnership with global data research firm Statista, ranked Sheba as the world's 13th best smart hospital for the second year in a row.

Sheba Medical Center's underground bomb-shelter neonatal unit.

Lapid and Barbivai establish ‘voluntary’ shorter shifts for medical residents

Lapid told the Finance Ministry to transfer NIS 66 million to those hospitals, not only those in the periphery, that are willing to shorten shifts from an exhausting 26 hours to 18. 

 Hospital reception area

Health Ministry: Supports shortening shifts, opposes mass resignation

The Health Ministry said that it supports young hospital doctors on shortening their shifts but opposes the mass resignations.

The Hillel Yaffe hospital in Hadera.

Two killed overnight in Israel's deadly car crash wave

2 pedestrians crossed a highway to help 2 people injured in a different car crash and were hit by passing cars.

 Road accident on Highway 4, August 12, 2022.

Israeli days-old baby abandoned in cardboard box, found alive

Police officers found the infant with the umbilical cord still attached to his stomach.

THE OLD city of Acre, a week after violent riots threatened to tear the city apart.

Israeli medical staff furious as plan for shorter shifts delayed again

The Finance Ministry said there are not enough physicians available to quickly shorten their workloads and did not agree to allocate large sums to pay for more.

 A woman wearing a medical scrub in the resident's protests of the 26-hour shifts.

Hospital workers must be protected - editorial

Security must be stepped up at hospitals and clinics across Israel. Law-enforcement authorities should use a heavy hand against anyone who acts violently against medical staff.

MEDICAL STAFF at Hadassah-Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem assemble and hold placards, declaring a strike and protesting violence against hospital personnel, May 2022.

Stepping on the brakes of hospital rage - opinion

Efforts must be made to provide a safer workplace for those who care for others and to provide measures of adequate protection.

MEDICAL STAFF at Hadassah-Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem assemble and hold placards, declaring a strike and protesting violence against hospital personnel, May 2022.