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Holocaust survivor Chana Sandouvsky shows her A-14147 number tattoo from Auschwitz in her home in Kiryat Bialik on April 16, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
January 27, 2026, 6:35 pm
Survey: Technological and other gaps leave more Holocaust survivors forgoing medical care
CEO of nonprofit LeMa’anam says 28% of Israel’s 110,000 survivors are housebound and have difficulty coordinating and reaching services, compounded by Israel’s digital transition
By Diana Bletter
Yael Eckstein holding hands of an elderly woman, Netta, in Israel. (Credit: Olivier Fitoussi)
October 20, 2025, 2:00 pm
Israelis’ life expectancy rises to 83.8, making it 4th among OECD countries
Report shows dramatic rise in life expectancy of both men and women from 2022 to 2023, despite Israel investing only 7.6% of its GDP in health
By Diana Bletter
A close-up of an inscribed medallion saying "Peace be with the elders" flanked by Egyptian geese, found at the Hippos site in northern Israel. (Michael Eisenberg/University of Haifa)
August 18, 2025, 2:06 pm
1,600 years of care: Archaeologists in northern Israel uncover world’s earliest home for elderly
University of Haifa researchers discover mosaic medallion bearing inscription ‘Peace be with the elders’ in Byzantine city of Hippos
By ToI Staff
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
Alice Schuman and Brock Cvijanovich. (Courtesy)
March 17, 2023, 10:55 am
After kicking down a Holocaust survivor’s door, a NY landlord becomes her guardian
Real estate investor Brock Cvijanovich wanted to be the good guy in someone’s story, so he and his mother ‘adopted’ an elderly woman whose building he’d purchased in 2021
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: A carer helping an elderly Israeli to cross the street in Tel Aviv. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
February 22, 2023, 11:11 am
‘Modern slavery’: How foreign caregivers in Israel have been extorted for decades
ToI exposes a multi-million-dollar industry in which foreign workers are compelled to pay ‘placement fees’ to employment ‘brokers’ – with the government’s full knowledge
By Inna Lazareva
Illustrative: Elderly people walk together in downtown Jerusalem, September 11, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 2, 2022, 2:34 pm
Study predicts 48% jump in Israelis over 75 by 2030, straining healthcare system
With elderly heavily reliant on medical care, more hospital beds and doctors are urgently needed ‘and it’s already late,’ researcher says
By Nathan Jeffay
New luxury retirement complex currently under construction in Ashkelon, August 2022. (Courtesy: David Zwebner)
August 25, 2022, 8:42 pm
New Ashkelon retirement village promises beachside luxury living
Complex overlooking sea to offer 160 apartments for aging residents, complete with amenities and shared spaces; project modeled after US senior living facilities
By Danielle Nagler
Intuition Robotics' ElliQ system is specifically designed for the elderly population. (Courtesy)
July 25, 2022, 5:10 pm
Israeli AI robotic companion for elderly launches in US market
After five years of development, Intuition Robotics officially released the ElliQ system this spring to help aging population stay active, connected, and engaged
By Ricky Ben-David
A Hesed social worker hugs a client in Odesa on Monday, February 28, 2022. (JDC)
March 2, 2022, 6:50 am
Risking life and limb, Hesed network continues caring for Ukraine’s neediest Jews
Staff of JDC group work on laptops from home to provide services, and some social workers move in with homebound Jews to ensure continued care, even as fighting rages around them
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A woman feeds an elderly woman at an aged care home in Israel, October 17, 2002. (Flash90)
February 22, 2022, 5:20 pm
Disgruntled diplomats said refusing to process visas for Nepalese nursing home staff
Some 1,000 workers not being let into Israel due to labor dispute, according to report, as representative of geriatric institutions declares extreme shortage of care providers
By ToI Staff
An undated photo of Chaya Freiman with her grandson, Elian Fitusi (Facebook)
September 6, 2021, 1:57 am
In care home mix up, misidentified COVID-19 victim buried by live woman’s family
Chaya Freeman’s relatives only found out about her death days later, after her identity was switched with that of another patient as they were transferred between facilities
By Stuart Winer
A scene from 'Disappearing Stories' on Instagram, a 2020 series made in Russia (courtesy)
October 17, 2020, 1:10 pm
Heroic Russians’ WWII mini-sagas dramatized for Instagram in ‘Disappearing’
‘Mini-movie’ creators inspired by viral Israeli ‘Eva.Stories,’ Instagram series based on 13-year-old in Holocaust; Russian project’s goal to raise awareness and funds for elderly
By Matt Lebovic
IDF Home Front Command soldiers in protective gear at a nursing home in Bnei Brak on April 14, 2020. (Flash90)
April 15, 2020, 3:11 pm
60 senior living homes have at least one COVID-19 case, NSC said to warn
TV report quotes government document saying that number of facilities with infections expected to rise; over 1/3 of coronavirus fatalities were residents of elderly living centers
By ToI Staff
Rachel Kaufman with her mother Margarete. (Courtesy)
April 14, 2020, 4:48 pm
Amid federal test shortages, LA nursing home works with city to distribute kits
Even with a lack of crucial supplies, the Los Angeles Jewish Home takes early action to protect residents as 3 contract coronavirus; helps similar facilities cope
By Noam Haykeen
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