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Left to right: Deputy Health Minister Moshe Arbel, outgoing health minister Nitzan Horowitz, Health Minister Aryeh Deri, and outgoing health ministry director-general Nachman Ash at a handover ceremony at the ministry, January 1, 2023. (GPO)
January 1, 2023, 1:50 pm
Snubs, warnings against discrimination in healthcare, as ministers hand over duties
Former health minister Horowitz warns successor Deri that politics must stay out of health system; Justice Minister Levin, Transportation Minister Regev skip traditional events
By ToI Staff
Left: Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at the launch of the National Unity party campaign for the upcoming elections in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90); Right: An Israeli Sa’ar Class 5 Corvette guards the Energean floating production, storage and offloading vessel at the Karish gas field, in footage published by the military on July 2, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 8, 2022, 10:19 pm
Testing of gas pipeline set to start at Karish drilling site amid Hezbollah threats
Defense minister warns of ‘resolute’ response to any attack as proposed maritime deal flounders; ‘And if things develop into a broader conflict, we will take Lebanon apart’
By ToI Staff
Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, meets with US Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein, at the presidential palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 9, 2022. (Dalati Nohra, Lebanon's official government photographer, via AP)
October 7, 2022, 11:02 am
Lebanon sticks to guns on maritime deal amid reported US pressure to drop demands
Lebanese official tells Hezbollah-linked newspaper that the Biden administration must ‘fulfill its promises and manage the issue with Israel’
By Ash Obel
A man receives the fifth Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from medical staff at Clalit Health services in Tel Aviv, Israel, September 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
September 22, 2022, 10:53 pm
Israel begins rollout of COVID vaccines tailored to Omicron
Health authorities recommend those 65 and up receive vaccine along with other at-risk groups
By AP
Medical residents demonstrate for better work conditions in Habima square in Tel Aviv, on August 30, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)
September 12, 2022, 11:23 am
Medical residents delay threatened resignations: Negotiators making ‘serious effort’
For 2nd time in week, move postponed as talks to shorten 26-hour shifts continue; health minister: Treasury’s approach is ‘totally destructive to Israeli society’
By Ash Obel
This photograph taken on December 7, 2021, shows a sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) at its headquarters in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
September 8, 2022, 5:21 pm
In first, Israel to host WHO conference of European health officials
Three-day meeting in Tel Aviv to be attended by representatives from nations in UN health agency’s Europe region
By ToI Staff
Dr. Rey Biton (second from right), head of the Mirsham organization of medical residents, holds a press conference at Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, August 1, 2022. (Flash90)
August 25, 2022, 11:56 am
‘Nothing to lose’: 200 medical residents resign in protest of 26-hour shifts
2-year dispute was reignited after government delayed plans to shorten shifts; more residents threaten to join mass exodus every week; health minister blames Treasury
By ToI Staff and Ash Obel
Student getting hands-on experience in Emergency Medicine Course at the Medical School for International Health (MSIH) at Soroka Medical Center. (Courtesy MSIH)
August 14, 2022, 10:36 pm
Israel ends lucrative American medical training programs to focus on local doctors
Universities to lose major source of income, and country to lose boost to Diaspora ties; move meant to tackle shortage of spots for Israeli students
By Judah Ari Gross
The first shipment of monkeypox doses arrives in Israel, July 27, 2022 (Health Ministry)
July 27, 2022, 12:29 pm
First shipment of 5,600 monkeypox vaccine doses arrives in Israel ahead of rollout
Health minister says further shots ‘on their way’; priority will be given to men born after 1980 who have HIV, are on HIV pre-exposure meds, or have contracted an STD this year
By ToI Staff
Outgoing Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg attends a discussion regarding violence in Arab society on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 15, 2022, 2:20 pm
MK Zandberg to take political time out, in latest resignation from left-wing Meretz
Former party chair commits to serving out term as environmental protection minister, but says she’s ready to depart political ‘wheel of fame’
By Michael Horovitz
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz leads a Meretz party faction meeting in the Knesset on June 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 12, 2022, 2:43 pm
Nitzan Horowitz to step down as Meretz chairman ahead of elections
Health minister will still run for a seat on left-wing party’s Knesset slate, and keep his ministerial role until new government is formed
By Jeremy Sharon
Deputy Economy and Industry Minister Yair Golan announces that he plans to challenge Nitzan Horowitz for the leadership of the Meretz party in the upcoming primaries, during a press conference in Tel Aviv, July 6, 2022 in Tel Aviv. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 6, 2022, 5:41 pm
Meretz leadership in play as Golan enters race against Horowitz
Coming out against the ‘messianic right,’ former IDF general says left-wing values should lead the nation, and that his party is in need of a change
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 5, 2022, 11:35 pm
Meretz minister says he won’t run in next election, urges party chair to step aside
Esawi Frej insists he’ll remain active in public service to strengthen left-wing bloc, Jewish-Arab partnership; argues that Horowitz failed leadership test
By ToI Staff
An abortion clinic (illustrative image: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
June 27, 2022, 4:18 pm
Israel eases access to abortion, days after US Supreme Court overturns Roe vs Wade
New rules allow drug-induced early-term abortions at clinics, end requirement for in-person approval by intrusive committees; health minister hails reforms as opposite to US ruling
By ToI Staff
MK Yair Golan speaks during a conference of Democrat TV in Jaffa, June 7, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 23, 2022, 12:50 pm
Meretz member backs unity with Labor, as left-wing party faces possible oblivion
Yair Golan accuses Labor of refusing to merge; party leader Horowitz assails rebel MK Rinawie Zoabi, says Meretz ‘has no connection to that woman anymore’
By Tobias Siegal
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