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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
Reservist Tuvia Book, a combat medic in the Palmar Asaf Medical Extraction Unit, on a Gazan beach, 2024. (courtesy)
November 29, 2024, 9:27 am
What Matters Now to combat medic Tuvia Book: Reserve duty for over a year
He’s a tour guide in ‘real life,’ but since Oct. 7, the ToI blogger has spent most of his days with the Palmar Asaf Medical Extraction Unit, retrieving wounded from inside Gaza
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A hair stylist combs through hair after using a treatment for long-term straightening. (Andrii Borodai via iStock by Getty Images)
February 10, 2023, 10:36 am
Some hair-straightening products can cause kidney failure – pioneering Israeli study
Israel 1st country to ban treatments with glyoxylic acid which gets absorbed in skin, causing pain, vomiting, and harm to kidneys; researchers anticipate global awareness
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative: Doctors perform cardiac catheterizations at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, in Jerusalem, on January 20, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 10, 2023, 7:26 pm
Israel to trim med student internships in bid to tackle ‘dire’ shortage of doctors
Decision to halve length of medical internships and restructure them will boost number of practicing physicians and lead to better-trained doctors, Health Ministry says
By Nathan Jeffay
Israelis ride their electric scooters on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, on May 5, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
December 1, 2022, 7:23 pm
In scooter-crazed Tel Aviv, 70% of injured rode helmet-less, 20% were drunk
Even those who protect heads often wear minimalist helmets; one such rider says: ‘I was hospitalized for several days, for three weeks afterwards I could hardly eat or drink’
By Nathan Jeffay
Anna Kosma (front), who has just entered rehab three months after doctors believed she had 2% chance of survival, pictured at Shaare Zedek Medical Center with her physicians Dr. Stefan Mausbach, left, and Dr. Roni Eichel (courtesy of Shaare Zedek Medical Center)
August 31, 2022, 10:16 pm
Flown from Ukraine to Israel with a 1-2% chance of survival, teen recovers
After 3 months in Israeli ICU with rare infection, Anna Kosma is released to rehab; ‘Doctors see this once in a lifetime,’ says her physician
By Nathan Jeffay
One of the new ER robots at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center guides a patient (courtesy of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center)
July 28, 2022, 2:03 pm
World’s largest ER opens in Israel, raising bar for tech and scale in emergency med
President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid open new 8,000 square meter Tel Aviv facility boasting self-triage and robots to help you find your way
By Nathan Jeffay
Israelis wearing face masks walk in downtown Jerusalem on January 21, 2021, during the third national coronavirus lockdown. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 19, 2021, 10:29 am
Israeli hospital reports 65% drop in serious asthma cases due to mask-wearing
Sheba Medical Center credits widespread use of face coverings outdoors during the COVID-19 pandemic — a health mandate that was dropped Sunday
By ToI Staff
An x-ray image of a bullet lodged in the brain of 9-year-old boy at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem on July 31, 2020 (courtesy of Hadassah University Hospital)
August 2, 2020, 3:53 pm
Shocked doctors find bullet lodged in brain of ‘sleepy’ 9-year-old, remove it
After East Jerusalem parents say they don’t know what’s hurting son, Hadassah doctors stunned to find he’d been shot; neurosurgeon, paged on way to Shabbat dinner, pulls bullet out
By Nathan Jeffay
Mini-ambulances launched by the Magen David Adom emergency and rescue service to speed up response times in crowded or hard-to-reach locations, October 9, 2017. (Yehezkel Itkin via MDA)
October 10, 2017, 4:54 pm
Magen David Adom launches speedy mini-ambulances
Electric cars will help volunteer paramedics circumvent traffic, access narrow streets and maneuver through audiences at events
By Sue Surkes
A high-tech mannequin in one of the Medical Trauma Simulator's single casualty rooms. Trainees can perform operations on the mannequin's neck, and its pupils can dilate to simulate a brain injury. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
August 25, 2016, 12:29 pm
When a dummy screams for help, the IDF’s future medics rush in
The army’s high-tech Medical Trauma Simulator prepares troops in the most realistic way possible to treat casualties in the field
By Luke Tress
Magen David Adom paramedics in Jerusalem. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
July 22, 2016, 2:10 pm
Trauma and routine all in a day’s work for Jerusalem’s paramedics
Magen David Adom’s 15,000 personnel are called to do everything from advising schools to responding to bombings at home and abroad
By Luke Tress
Masad Barhoum
July 18, 2016, 12:58 pm
Masad Barhoum
A decade on, ready and filled with dread
The CEO of northern Israel’s trauma hospital sees a looming threat that dwarfs the destruction wrought by Lebanon Two
Israeli soldiers establish a field hospital together with the Nepalese army, in Nepal, following the deadly earthquake. on April 29, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson)
April 20, 2016, 5:48 pm
Israel a role model for disaster medicine, says Red Cross chief surgeon
Harald Veen: ‘Israelis have the knowledge and experience’ to excel in emergencies
By David Shamah
Illustrative photo of cars being transported near the Erez Crossing into Gaza. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
February 1, 2016, 7:44 pm
2 Gazans indicted for entering Israel on forged medical papers
Palestinian pair, one of them a Hamas member, pay NIS 7,000 apiece for false papers, are nabbed by Shin Bet
By ToI Staff
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