Nitzan Horowitz

Deri steps into Health Ministry, will push for higher budget

Arye Deri said that he will focus on two main issues for the ministry: a significant addition to the budget base of NIS 5.85 billion and better management and implementation abilities.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Shas leader MK Arye Deri is seen at the Knesset, on July 26, 2021.
MERETZ PARTY chairman Nitzan Horowitz attends an Israel News Company conference in Jerusalem last week.

Health Minister Horowitz denounces Finance Ministry 'interference'

Outgoing Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz spoke at the Dead Sea Conference where he launched an unprecedented attack on the Treasury.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Israeli foreign minister and Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid walks next to Head of opposition and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu at the assembly hall for a special session in memory of Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, on November 8, 2021.

With Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Israel exits Lapid's intolerant gov't - opinion

The outgoing government painted Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters as insidious and dangerous, and that was just the beginning.

|ByODED REVIVI
View of the Kaplan Medical Center, in Rehovot, on December 11, 2020.

Two additional acute centers open for treatment of victims of rape, sexual assault

The new centers are at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

14 Days: Royal Meeting

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

OCTOBER 13, 2021BySTEVE LINDE
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meeting Bahrain’s King Hamid bin Issa al-Khalifa at the royal palace in Manama, September 30, 2021.

Meeting between Health Minister and medical residents end with no deal

Young physicians have been demanding better working conditions for years and chiefly want a reduction of their 26-hour shifts to 18 hours.

OCTOBER 10, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Medical workers protest over 26 hour shifts

Nitzan Horowitz orders increased supervision in health institutions after murder of 17-year-old

Melnik, 17, was hospitalized at the Ma'ale HaCarmel Mental Health Center in Zichron Ya'akov, where she met her suspected murderer.

OCTOBER 7, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Health Nitzan Horowitz attends a press conference about the Coronavirus, in Jerusalem on August 29, 2021.

Abbas invites all Israeli ministers to talk with him after Meretz visit

Defense Minister Benny Gantz has also previously visited Palestinian Authority Head Abbas, but the question of whether to speak with the Palestinian leader is a divisive one within the government.

OCTOBER 4, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hosted a delegation from the Meretz party. October 4, 2021.

Naftali Bennett’s unwitting UN blunder - opinion

The real scandal at the UNGA erupted over Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's statements on Israel's handling of the pandemic.

OCTOBER 1, 2021ByRUTHIE BLUM
Israel’s prime minister Naftali Bennett is escorted to the podium before addressing the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, at the UN headquarters in New York, US, September 27, 2021.

Meretz ministers Horowitz and Frej to meet with PA’s Abbas

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett expressed reservations about the meeting but did not block it from taking place.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021ByLAHAV HARKOV
Health Nitzan Horowitz attends a press conference about the Coronavirus, in Jerusalem on August 29, 2021.

The preventable silent deaths from COVID-19 - opinion

Research studies around the world have supported the recommendation that self-monitoring with home oximeters that measure blood oxygen levels can save many lives.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021BySHERMAN ROSENFELD
Medical workers take care of a patient infected with COVID-19 at the intensive care unit (ICU) of Ramon y Cajal hospital amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid, Spain October 30, 2020.

Israeli health minister: Room for COVID optimism as ‘R’ drops to 0.85

Health Ministry: 696 people in serious condition Saturday night, positivity rate at 6.57%

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Health care workers take test samples of Israelis in a drive through complex to check if they have been infected with the Coronavirus in Jerusalem, on September 09, 2021.

MK Moshe Arbel calls for humanitarian assistance to Lebanese health system

“The State of Israel and Israeli society cannot remain silent and stand idly by when a humanitarian catastrophe is occurring just a few minutes from the northern border,” wrote Arbel to Horowitz.

AUGUST 26, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
A demonstrator sits on the ground near burning fire during a protest against the fall in Lebanese pound currency and mounting economic hardship, in Beirut, Lebanon March 2, 2021.

Health minister removes blood donation restrictions for gay men

Men donating blood will no longer be asked if they have had sex with men in the past year.

AUGUST 19, 2021ByTZVI JOFFRE
Test tubes, taken by a health care worker, with plasma and blood samples after a separation process in a centrifuge during a coronavirus vaccination study at the Research Centers of America, in Hollywood, Florida, US, September 24, 2020.