Save a Child’s Heart

Meet the Jewish girl who escaped Iran and saved thousands of lives from Israel - interview

Anat Mastor, head of perfusion at Save A Child’s Heart, recalls childhood under the Islamic regime. Escaped in 1987 as a Jewish teen, she now saves children globally while hoping for Iranian freedom.

MARCH 8, 2026|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Iran, 1987: Anat Mastor (center) poses with Jewish friends in 1987 at the tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Iran.

FOUNDER OF the Genesis Prize Stan Polovets, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and Morris Kahn in 2019.

'When I grow up, I want to be like you': remembering Morris Kahn's most productive years - opinion

Founder of the Genesis Prize Stan Polovets on why your seventies and eighties – and even nineties – can be your most impactful years.

JANUARY 2, 2026|BySTAN POLOVETS

AWO AND Sumaya from Somaliland with Israeli volunteer Ella in the middle.

Medical ties linked Israel and Somaliland years before formal recognition

For more than two decades, the Israeli NGO Save a Child’s Heart has provided cardiac care to children from Somaliland, bringing patients to Israel for surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon.

DECEMBER 31, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Thirteen pediatric and heart patients from Zambia are spending Christmas in Israel as part of SACH’s humanitarian medical program, which provides free cardiac surgery to children from developing countries.

Zambian children celebrate Christmas in Israel after Save a Child's Heart surgeries

Thirteen pediatric and young heart patients from Zambia are spending Christmas in Israel after receiving free cardiac surgery as part of the Save a Child's Heart program in Holon.

DECEMBER 25, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Regional Cooperation Min. Akunis visits charity in honor of MidEast peace

The ministry has worked with the charity since 2010, and has rescued 1,600 children with cardiac issues in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza and the PA, Syria, Morocco, and South Sudan.

NOVEMBER 27, 2020ByCODY LEVINE

Regional Cooperation Minister meeting with children at the Wolfson Medical Center.

Israeli NGO performs 5,555th lifesaving surgery on Palestinian toddler

"I was sure that my son was sick, that if he had access to the right treatment he could be healed," the child's mother said.

NOVEMBER 8, 2020ByZACHARY KEYSER

Mahmad seen pictured at Wolfson Medical Center after receiving treatment

A British 11-year old will walk 26 miles to save other children's hearts

Amelie's goal: 60,000 steps for 60,000 heartbeats.

NOVEMBER 2, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Yuli Edelstein visits new Sylvan Adams Children's Hospital in Holon

The construction of the new building was funded by Save a Child's Heart donors from Israel and around the world. The medical center will help treat children with heart diseases as it will be used as an International Pediatric Center.

AUGUST 4, 2020ByDANIEL NISINMAN

Health Minister's visit to the Sylvan Adams Children's Hospital

Baby girl from Gaza saved by team of Israeli, Palestinian doctors

Lama was diagnosed with a heart defect that results in abnormal blood flow between two of the major arteries connected to the heart, a condition which requires medical intervention.

MAY 18, 2020ByZACHARY KEYSER