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.

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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

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Couple who lost child in Ofra Junction attack give birth to baby boy

The Ish-Rans, who lost their child in a terrorist attack, returned to Shaare Zedek this week to welcome a new baby.

Medical staff from the maternity and trauma teams at Shaare Zedek Medical Center congratulate the Ish-Rans upon the birth of their new son.

COVID antibodies start to decline in kids after only 4 months – study

According to researchers, these findings may indicate that children have a weaker long-term immune response to COVID-19.

This undated transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus parti

20 years later, Sbarro attack victims dedicate Shaare Zedek delivery room

Meir Schijveschuurder who experienced the attack as a 17 year old, expressed that the choice to dedicate a delivery room reflected “circle of life."

Siblings Chaya and Meir Schijveschuurder meet with medical personnel who treated them in the wake of Sbarro terror attack 20 years ago.

Cardiology breakthrough at Shaare Zedek: Heart defect repaired with stitch

In a first for Israeli medicine, doctors repaired a heart defect with a stitch and no implant.

A medical team that repaired a heart defect in a 38-year-old woman at Shaare Zedek Medical Center without implanting a foreign object in her body.

Shaare Zedek performs life saving surgery on 4-year-old boy

The boy, Omran, was hit by a car driving over 130 kilometers an hour and as a result, developed a rare and complex spinal fracture.

Omran laying in the hospital

Israeli scientists aim to ‘see’ cancer in our blood

A new collaboration between an Israeli biotech company, Sight Diagnostics, and Shaare Zedek aims to provide early detection of blood cancers by analyzing images of blood cells.

The team at Sight Diagnostics working

Crack near Shaare Zedek sinkhole threatens additional collapse - WATCH

Video footage revealed a massive crack on a road near the hospital Tuesday afternoon.

JERUSALEM’S Shaare Zedek Medical Center

WATCH: Parking lot collapses into sinkhole at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek

Security footage shows three cars falling straight into the sinkhole. It is still unknown if there were people inside.

Shaare Zedek Hospital

Jerusalem-based Israeli hospital records 300th water birth

Aside from water births, Shaare Zedek maternity ward is one of the most active in Israel, with over 22,000 births recorded annually.

Rachel Richler Vitri and Nadav Vitri celebrate the birth of their son, the 300th baby born in a water birth at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

Prime Minister Netanyahu donates blood for victims of Mt. Meron

"Like many of the citizens of Israel, I came to donate blood as an act of identification with the wounded and as an act of identification with the terrible tragedy that happened here," he said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu donates blood at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem following the disaster that occurred at Mt. Meron.