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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
An entrepreneur checks his work calendar. (Moon Safari, at iStock by Getty Images)
December 10, 2025, 7:26 pm
As Israelis live longer, older Arabs, single women, lag behind on financial security
Study finds that 35% of Jewish men aged over 65 still work, but for Jewish women and Arab men that number drops to just 20%, while virtually no Arab women work at that age
By Sue Surkes
Elderly people work out with wooden dumb-bells in the grounds of a temple in Tokyo on September 17, 2012, to celebrate Japan's Respect-for-the-Aged-Day. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP)
December 2, 2025, 7:23 am
Medical Holy Grail: Israeli researchers isolate elusive cells that may slow down aging
In peer-reviewed study, Prof. Alon Monsonego’s lab finds that ‘T helper’ blood cells, abundant in ‘super-centenarians’ in high-life-expectancy zone in Japan, may point the way to longevity
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
Shlomi evacuees Ella and Avraham Moreno stand in the lobby of their Haifa hotel, September 2024. (Charlotte Lawson/ TOI)
September 21, 2024, 8:03 am
They settled the northern border. Now these elderly Israelis worry they won’t return
For many seniors who have spent the past year displaced in a Haifa hotel, the ‘abandonment’ of the North is profoundly unsettling their core beliefs about the Israeli state
By Charlotte Lawson
Israeli elderly women take part in a morning workout in a former hotel turned into a social housing building for elderly Israelis from the former Soviet Union, in Jerusalem on September 4, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
December 30, 2022, 5:58 am
Israel to build 3,000 new sheltered housing units for elderly population
Jewish Agency, government ink agreement to provide affordable housing for senior Israelis in cities like Beersheba, Ra’anana, and Tel Aviv
By Danielle Nagler
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
A bus carrying 40 elderly passangers tipped on its side after driving off the road near Anava Interchange, July 18, 2022. (Israel Police)
July 18, 2022, 11:11 am
38 lightly injured when bus comes off highway near Jerusalem, tips sideways in ditch
Four of the elderly passengers taken to hospital after vehicle hits guardrail, eventually comes to a halt in a ditch; many had to be rescued via vehicle’s windows
By ToI Staff
An elderly couple walking on Jaffa street in central Jerusalem on February 20, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
June 1, 2021, 4:43 pm
Being optimistic can extend your life, Israeli study finds
Hebrew University researchers followed 1,200 elderly Jerusalemites for some 30 years and measured their positive outlook on life
By ToI Staff
A man in isolation at home during the pandemic (PIKSEL via iStock by Getty Images)
November 5, 2020, 2:00 pm
Lockdown accelerates aging, causes ‘deterioration that can kill’ – geriatrician
Isolation is fast eroding cognitive function, memory and physical ability, says top Jerusalem doctor, urging government to overhaul attitude to elderly
By Nathan Jeffay
Gabi Arnovitz (center) with David Suraqui (L) and Uriel Shuraki. (Courtesy)
May 12, 2020, 5:43 pm
Now in English, project teaches seniors new ways to keep in touch by smartphone
Some 1,500 people joined original Hebrew language course launched by three Jerusalem social entrepreneurs to help elderly master Zoom, WhatsApp during COVID-19 lockdown
By Sue Surkes
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
A Magen David Adom emergency services worker, wearing protective clothing, arrives to test residents of Jerusalem's Nofim home for the elderly for coronavirus, March 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 13, 2020, 10:30 am
Hospital director tapped by ministry to address COVID-19 nursing home fiasco
After 34 coronavirus deaths in homes, and under pressure from High Court, ministry announces that Sourasky head Ronni Gamzu will head virus management in elder care facilities
By Sue Surkes
The Ateret Avot nursing home in Bnei Brak. (Screenshot: Google Street View)
April 13, 2020, 9:56 am
24 residents of Bnei Brak nursing home infected with virus
Manager accuses Health Ministry of waiting more than a week to test all residents after one tested positive, and failing to update facility with results
By ToI Staff
Gabi Arnovitz (center) with David Suraqui (L) and Uriel Shuraki. (Courtesy)
April 6, 2020, 9:03 am
Seniors stuck amid lockdown learn to operate smartphones with online course
Over two weeks, more than 1,000 join free course designed by 3 social entrepreneurs that aims to help elderly keep in touch during coronavirus; plans to launch English version soon
By Sue Surkes
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