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Illustrative: A woman looks out at her friends at a nursing home. (iStock by Getty Images)
June 24, 2025, 2:05 am
Under Iran’s ‘blitz’, Israel’s retirement homes try to keep calm and carry on
With hundreds of residents who have faced multiple wars, assisted-living facilities’ managers say the best approach to nighttime sirens is to just let their elders keep sleeping
By Zev Stub
Emergency medical workers arrive at Cobble Hill Health Center, in Brooklyn, NY, April 17, 2020. (John Minchillo/AP)
April 20, 2020, 9:27 pm
‘Under siege’: Overwhelmed Brooklyn care home tolls 55 dead, likely from virus
Friends and relatives describe Cobble Hill Health Center as unequipped to face coronavirus outbreak, with shortages of staff, personal protective equipment, reliable testing
By Bernard Condon, Matt Sedensky and Jennifer Peltz
The Mishan assisted living facility in Beersheba (Screen grab/Channel 13 news)
April 10, 2020, 6:59 pm
Police said to open probe of virus-hit senior living home for alleged neglect
Investigation reportedly launched after complaint filed by relatives of residents at Mishan facility in Beersheba, which has recorded 12 COVID-19 deaths
By ToI Staff
IDF soldier Elor Azaria at a military court hearing in Jaffa, August 30, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/JTA)
February 21, 2017, 2:15 pm
Awaiting Azaria
Right-wing papers gear up for the grand conclusion of the trial of the year, while the left focuses on the courts and elder care
By Ilan Ben Zion
Foreign workers at the Neema office in Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station (Photo by Liron Rotem)
February 17, 2016, 5:29 am
Zionist Union MK calls hearing on debt-slave foreign workers
Following Times of Israel exposé on illegal fees caregivers are made to pay, Itzik Shmuli vows to tackle manpower companies turning elder care into ‘a kind of human trafficking’
By Simona Weinglass
An illustrative photo of a Filipina worker helping an elderly woman on November 2, 2010. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
February 11, 2016, 4:27 pm
When grandma’s caretaker is a debt slave
There are 55,000 foreign caretakers in Israel. Almost all of them arrived as modern-day indentured servants, owing thousands of dollars to loan sharks and corrupt employment agents. Why is nobody taking care of the caretakers?
By Simona Weinglass
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