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Israeli cardiac surgeons from Wolfson Medical Center in Holon and Save a Child's Heart (SACH) and Zambian surgeons perform open-heart surgery on a child in an operating room at National Heart Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, on July 14, 2026. (Courtesy/Save a Child's Heart)
August 1, 2026, 9:15 am
In Zambia, Israeli team helps train country’s first generation of pediatric cardiac surgeons
Save a Child’s Heart program mentors hospital staff with 6-year fellowship, recently donated crucial new equipment; group has helped 8,500 kids and trained 160 doctors worldwide
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Ariel Tarasiuk, left, of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, and the Department of Physiology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Prof. Aviv D. Goldbart of the Saban Pediatric Medical Center at Soroka University Medical Center. (Courtesy)
July 13, 2026, 2:00 pm
Secondhand smoke harms children’s sleep by acting on central nervous system, Israeli researchers say
Scientists find 67% spike in sleep disruptions in kids aged 1-12 even without respiratory issues; eliminating tobacco smoke from child’s environment can immediately improve sleep efficiency, brain recovery, overall health
By Diana Bletter
Meitar Roz keeps it positive while in the hospital in an undated photo. (Courtesy of the Roz family)
June 19, 2026, 7:49 pm
Back on his feet: Thousands fund Israeli boy’s $3.2m degenerative disease treatment
Friends, family, strangers chip in for 8-year-old Meitar Roz’s life-changing DMD therapy in campaign launched by mother and IDF reservist father after state denied request for help
By Lianne Kolirin
An illustrative photo of a baby. (Ignacio Campo on Unsplash)
June 17, 2026, 5:06 pm
Jerusalem police probe baby food laced with sedatives after 4 infants hospitalized
Health Ministry closes two branches of Zol veGadol stores in the city; public urged to check that all purchased products are sealed and intact
By Diana Bletter
In this undated photograph, a Mashabim therapist works with a young girl. (Mashabim)
March 18, 2026, 9:56 pm
Anxiety symptoms and lack of trust in adults are rising in children as war drags on
Veteran NGO reports marked return of symptoms such as bedwetting, nightmares, apathy and withdrawal in children who had already improved from previous rounds of war after therapy
By Sue Surkes
Yonatan Schwartz, left, with Yaniv, Tsur, and their dog, Lev, in front of their restaurant in Moshav Liman that was damaged during the 2024 conflict with Hezbollah on March 10, 2026. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
March 12, 2026, 9:26 am
Under a rain of Hezbollah missiles, determined northern farmers still sow for the future
Grateful to come home after being forced to flee for 14 months or longer after Oct. 7, residents of Moshav Liman try to rebuild their lives amid another round of war and more missiles
By Diana Bletter
Parents walk a child to school, in Jerusalem, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir / Flash90)
February 22, 2026, 2:46 am
With co-parenting on the rise in Israel, one advocate aims to export the model to US Jews
Former MK Michal Biran says the increasingly mainstream idea of raising a child in a platonic partnership is even more appropriate as the Jewish community bands together amid rising antisemitism
By Deborah Danan
Michael and Susan Dell pose for photographs November 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
December 2, 2025, 9:05 pm
Michael and Susan Dell pledge $6.25 billion to Trump investment scheme for kids
In largest single private commitment ever made to US kids, Jewish philanthropists to put donation into ‘Trump Accounts’ for 25 million eligible children
By THALIA BEATY
Illustrative photo of a daycare center in Israel, April 20, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
November 15, 2025, 4:04 pm
Haifa daycare owner unknowingly brings rabid dog to work, which then attacks children
The stray, rescued near Jaljulia and initially cleared by vet, bit five children and four adults before being diagnosed with rabies; health ministry says 18 people were exposed
By ToI Staff
An Israeli reserve soldier kissing goodbye to his child in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 28, 2025, 6:23 pm
Statistics show 50% of reservists’ spouses experience marital troubles in ongoing war
First state report on families of reservists finds 63% of spouses see a negative change in their children’s mental state if parents serve more than 200 days
By Diana Bletter
Classmates and teachers of Druze children killed in a deadly missile attack at a soccer field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, visit the site, August 2, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
April 6, 2025, 11:46 pm
Over 23,000 children and youth physically or mentally damaged by war – report
Israel Council for the Child unveils extent of loss, against backdrop of increased family violence, sexual abuse, suicide attempts by children aged 9 and younger
By Sue Surkes
Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, speaks during a protest east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)
October 19, 2024, 12:25 pm
In letters to 10-year-old son, Sinwar sought to instill a hatred for Israel — report
Young boy said to have sent father drawings of dead IDF troops, asked when the war would end, in months of correspondence found near where terror chief was killed
By ToI Staff
Palestinian children salvage items from garbage in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, September 30, 2024. (Eyad Baba / AFP)
October 1, 2024, 12:08 am
UNICEF says war has deprived Gazan children of education, food
Spokesman describes ‘extreme impact,’ recalls child telling him of uncle’s horrific death, ‘saying things that a 10-year-old should not tell you’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Palestinian children wait with family members at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 24, 2024. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
July 28, 2024, 9:22 pm
Netanyahu said to freeze plan to send sick Gazan children abroad after Golan attack
Move reportedly comes after 12 children and teens were killed in Hezbollah’s rocket attack on Majdal Shams in the North on Saturday
By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
Israeli security forces and medics transport casualties from a soccer field where a rocket fired by Hezbollah in Lebanon killed at least 12 young people in Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 27, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
July 27, 2024, 10:40 pm
12 children killed as Hezbollah rocket hits soccer field, sparking wider war fears
Iranian-made rocket fired from Lebanon hits Golan Druze town Majdal Shams; Israel dismisses Hezbollah denial; dozens more wounded; officials signal response could be unprecedented
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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