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Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance drives through the streets of Haifa, northern Israel, on October 23, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
August 16, 2026, 4:05 pm
Children, 5 and 6, hospitalized after eating candy containing hallucinogenic mushrooms
Report says parent has taken responsibility for the incident; children are in intensive care for observation after hallucinating
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv during a heatwave, on April 24, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 30, 2026, 7:42 pm
Following Europe, Israel braces for dayslong extreme heat wave on Friday
Hot spell slated to hit Jordan Valley hardest, temperatures set to soar to 46ºC (116ºF); Health Ministry urges public to avoid sun exposure
By Diana Bletter
Lebanese soldiers and first responders inspect the site of an Israeli drone strike that reportedly killed the passengers of a vehicle on the Khalde highway at the southern entrance to Beirut on June 3, 2026. (FADEL itani / AFP)
June 3, 2026, 3:03 pm
IDF strike reported near Beirut, sirens blare in north after peace talks in DC
Two rockets, suspected Hezbollah drone shot down over Galilee Panhandle, morning after Home Front Command eases restrictions
By Emanuel Fabian, Diana Bletter, Nava Freiberg and Agencies
Dr. Nadia Khir, right, the first female Druze doctor in Israel, consults with a Druze woman in the Clalit health clinic in Julis, Western Galilee, on May 22, 2026. (Courtesy)
May 23, 2026, 7:12 am
First female Druze doctor in Israel awarded prize for breaking barriers
Dr. Nadia Khir honored with prestigious Habama Shelahen prize for blazing trail 35 years ago; ‘wanted to help’ women in her community who couldn’t seek care from male practitioners
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: Patients and medical staff are seen in an underground parking area converted into a treatment ward at Shaarei Tzedk hospital in Jerusalem after many patients were relocated amid the Iran war, March 4, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 7, 2026, 7:24 am
From fortified ORs to popup clinics, Israel’s medical centers streamline wartime operations
Using knowledge gleaned the hard way during the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion and June war with Iran, hospitals go underground amid incoming missile fire – and staff know the drill
By Diana Bletter
The first baby born in 2025 in Beilinson Hospital mother Efrat Gilboa Menashe, center, Roy Gilboa Menashe, left, and midwife Mayson Issa. (Spokesperson's Office/Beilinson Hospital)
January 1, 2025, 4:14 pm
2025’s first babies born in shadow of the war, with joy accompanied by hopes for hostages
Around the country, the first babies usher in the new year; one father leaves reserve duty to greet his newborn son in Tiberias
By Diana Bletter
Debbie Cohen, head nurse of Nursery Department A, and Amira Morad, staff nurse, check on newborn babies at Galilee Medical Center on December 22, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
December 27, 2024, 5:49 am
Northern hospitals move out of underground bunkers after months of war
While hospital staff and patients welcome the return to routine and regular wards after crowded, dark conditions, management is still prepared ‘to go underground again’ if needed
By Diana Bletter
An Israeli protests against the government's plans to overhaul the judicial system outside a branch of the United States Embassy in Jerusalem, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
December 23, 2024, 1:20 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 23: Day 444 – Why MKs pushed restart on judicial overhaul bills
Political correspondent Sam Sokol on an interview with MK Simcha Rothman, an architect of the controversial legislation; reporter Diana Bletter on Haifa’s Holiday of Holidays
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Sam Sokol and Diana Bletter
An air defense system fires interceptor missiles at rockets fired from Lebanon, as seen from Mitzpe Netofa, northern Israel, November 3, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
November 10, 2024, 5:50 pm
Airstrikes reported near Beirut, Damascus; 6 hurt in rocket attacks on northern Israel
Lebanese media says at least 23 killed in airstrikes in Almat, north Beirut; new defense minister says IDF has defeated Hezbollah on the battlefield; IAF downs drone from Iraq
By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman
Neighbors gather in front of a Kibbutz Sa'ar house that suffered a direct hit from a Hezbollah rocket attack on September 25, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)
September 25, 2024, 11:38 pm
‘That could have been us,’ say Kibbutz Sa’ar residents after direct rocket hit on house
Residents describe how their pastoral home has been turned into a community of fear, where they have almost no time to respond to warning sirens of incoming rockets
By Diana Bletter
The scene where a drone fired from Lebanon hit a building, in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, September 9, 2024. (Flash90)
September 9, 2024, 10:39 pm
After Hezbollah strike on Nahariya, residents say government abandoned them
Drone hits apartment of members of urban kibbutz who moved to the city out of idealism; now they say they have to deal with their own shock before they can help others
By Diana Bletter
Roni Cohen, right, a midwife, checks Shira Weiss as part of the 'First Contractions' project, in Shavei Zion, Israel, August 11, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)
August 18, 2024, 7:48 am
In northern Israel, midwives prepare expectant mothers for birth during war
With ‘First Contractions,’ expectant mothers get ready for worst-case scenarios: delivering their babies safely at home if they can’t get to a hospital and nobody can reach them
By Diana Bletter
Dr. Aviva Wolff with a patient at the Kaylie Rehabilitation Medical Center at ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran (Courtesy)
August 10, 2024, 4:49 am
Foreign doctors answer the call to help in Israel’s hospitals and rehab centers
Noting a need, these four medical professionals left their practices behind and took their ‘vacation’ to volunteer in Israel and help where they could
By Diana Bletter
Footage taken by an onlooker in northern Israel appears to show a Hezbollah attack drone that crossed from Lebanon, on August 6, 2024. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 6, 2024, 3:40 pm
19 injured, one critically, as Hezbollah drones strike near northern city of Nahariya
IDF says impact along highway caused by failed interceptor; terror group claims assault targeted military base; Hezbollah says reprisal for top commander yet to come
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
An Israeli wounded by rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel arrives at Ziv hospital in Safed, October 17, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)
August 5, 2024, 7:53 pm
Israeli hospitals declare themselves prepared for mass casualty events
Since the start of war, hospitals have conducted drills, stockpiled supplies, and moved wards underground, readying themselves for worst-case scenarios, with MDA cooperation
By Diana Bletter
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