Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Nine-month-old baby rushed to Shaare Zedek after choking, passes away despite resuscitation efforts

Despite successfully removing the foreign object from the baby’s throat, doctors were unable to stabilize her condition.

Illustrative image of a baby girl to frame story of 9-month-old who died in Shaare Zedek after choking. February, 2026.
Prof. Ofer Merin, IFCJ President Yael Eckstein, and Prof. Jonathan HaLevy.

Grapevine, February 13, 2026: An anti-aggression alliance

Silber family members with Shaare Zedek Medical Center staff.

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

Magen David Adom ambulance outside The Green-Wagner ER

Israel faces early, severe flu season as Health Ministry urges mass vaccination


Grapevine: Buzzing with life

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JERUSALEM’S Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Hillel's Tech Corner: Shaare Zedek breaks through healthcare barriers

Companies like Zebra Medical, Healthy.io, MobileODT and so many others have developed proprietary technology that is saving lives every single day.

JERUSALEM’S SHAARE ZEDEK Medical Center processes more than 800,000 patient visits per year.

Coronavirus: We won’t need another vaccine until 2022, expert says

Medical experts have also emphasized that not enough data is available. However, they have suggested that there might be reasons to be hopeful.

A medical worker holds a syringe with Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before administering an injection at a vaccination centre in a shopping mall in Saint Petersburg, Russia February 24, 2021.

Coronavirus: Vaccinated nursing moms likely pass antibodies on to babies

'Pregnant women who got vaccinated or recovered are also likely to give their children protection against COVID-19 through the placenta.'

Israeli women take part at a Mass Breastfeeding as they gathered at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2016, the idea  was to promote women's right to breastfeeding their babies in public, March 18, 2016. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

Shaare Zedek, Bezalel partner on solutions to coronavirus challenges

As part of the partnership, medical teams and designers will work together and create joint projects.

Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

Pregnant Jerusalemite recovers from COVID-19 at Shaare Zedek

The team spent their focus providing Bat Sheva with respiratory support, while carefully monitoring the status of the unborn child.

Pregnant Jerusalemite recovers from COVID-19 at Shaare Zedek

Coronavirus: Not enough ICU beds for those who need them, doctors say

“In order to open more beds for corona patients we had to cut the regular ones.”

Shaare Zedek coronavirus unit

Life-threatening tumor found in child's brain had hair, teeth

Doctors say that finding such a growth happens approximately once a decade.

A teratoma tumor found in a child's brain.

Some hospitals to stop receiving ambulances due to financial woes

Health Ministry rules to begin vaccinating teens 16-18 as early as next week.

An ambulance driving in the central Israeli city of Elad, April 5, 2020

Shaare Zedek Medical Center prepares for an unprecedented cold season

This winter, people need to take extra care to stay healthy.

DR. TAMAR LACHISH, senior physician, Infectious Diseases Unit at Shaare Zedek.