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Illustrative. Girl in hospital bed. (iStock)
April 11, 2018, 1:16 pm
Harmony in the children’s ward
Where an hour of upbeat music means an hour of less pain in the world
By Adina Samuels
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the annual health conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
March 28, 2018, 12:24 am
Netanyahu released from hospital, diagnosed with mild viral infection
Prime minister had been admitted with high fever, cough; doctors say all tests negative, so he was sent home and told to rest
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coughing while addressing an annual health conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2018. (AFP / JACK GUEZ)
March 27, 2018, 10:19 pm
Netanyahu taken to Jerusalem hospital with high fever
Prime minister's condition worsened after he failed to get proper rest to overcome illness, physician says; deputy health minister says all tests negative and he's 'feeling better'
By TOI staff
Unidentified medical personnel from Hadassah Medical Center in Israel and the Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekelle, Ethiopia, confer during a Hadassah team’s mission in Ethiopia to perform spinal surgeries on young patients, March 2018. (Courtesy of Hadassah via JTA)
March 27, 2018, 5:55 am
Israeli doctors perform lifesaving spinal surgeries in Ethiopia
Surgeon says some cases 'were so bad that if we wouldn’t have operated... at least half of them would be dead by next year'
By Josefin Dolsten
Dr. Elisha Waldman (Michael Lionstar)
February 3, 2018, 8:31 am
Pediatric oncologist takes readers inside Hadassah hospital with new memoir
American-born Elisha Waldman reflects on the unique challenges of treating sick kids in religiously and politically complex Jerusalem
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Gaza resident Mohammed Taluli's hand before it was operated on by doctors at Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center. (Hadassah Medical Center)
August 30, 2017, 5:41 pm
Israeli doctors successfully operate on Gaza ‘tree man’
Hadassah surgeon who treated Mohammed Taluli says rare disease has 'no documentation whatsoever in the medical annals'
By TOI staff
One of the cars hit in a head-on collision in the Jordan Valley on August 22, 2017. (Magen David Adom)
August 22, 2017, 6:41 pm
6 injured, 4 seriously, in head-on Jordan Valley car collision
Medics free one driver who was trapped inside vehicle
By Jacob Magid
July 12, 2017, 4:17 pm
Jerusalem, you have failed me
With poor options for her son's medical care, she asks how the capital of the Jewish people could be so heartless
By Gina Shaffer
Shlomo Ben Dor (R) and Pazit Ben Israel sit at the protest tent of the Hadassah Hospital hemato-ontology department in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, wearing signs which say 'I'm on hunger strike,' June 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 29, 2017, 12:30 am
Hadassah parents end hunger strike amid ongoing mediation
Mediator Elyakim Rubinstein hopes move will help sides resolve crisis over children's cancer ward
By TOI staff
Supreme Court justice and Elyakim Rubinstein in his Jerusalem office (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 27, 2017, 2:52 pm
Over parents’ opposition, court orders mediation in Hadassah hospital crisis
Ex-Supreme Court judge Rubinstein will try to resolve dispute surrounding children's cancer unit
By TOI staff
Shlomo Ben Dor (R) and Pazit Ben Israel sit at the protest tent of the Hadassah Hospital hemato-ontology department in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, wearing signs which say 'I'm on hunger strike,' June 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 26, 2017, 12:23 pm
Ex-Hadassah cancer doctors beg parents to halt hunger strike
Request comes hours before High Court due to debate parents' petition to open new child's cancer unit at rival hospital
By Sue Surkes
View of a protest tent in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, June 4, 2017, the protest tent built by parents of young cancer patients in the Hema-ontology department in Hadassah Ein Kerem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 25, 2017, 4:25 pm
Saber rattling and sick kids
Israeli papers abound with leftover news of a retaliatory airstrike on Syrian regime positions and a persistent crisis at Hadassah
By Tamar Pileggi
Hadassah nurses parade in Jerusalem, 1965 (CC/Wikipedia)
June 20, 2017, 1:47 pm
The wounded came, Hadassah was ready
Eyewitness in 1967 to a city under siege, and a hospital's heroic adaptation to treating the casualties of war
By Malka Hillel-Schulewitz
A medical clown at Hadassah's pediatric hematology-oncology department in March, shortly after six doctors resigned. 'Today the clown is sad,' reads his sign (Screenshot Facebook)
June 16, 2017, 1:11 pm
Nurse at Hadassah cancer ward says hospital director is wrong, ‘kids are in danger’
Ten days after the doctors at the Jerusalem hospital’s pediatric hemato-oncology department left their jobs, chaos reigns
By Simona Weinglass
The closing of Hadassah's pediatric hematology-oncology ward puts lives at risk (Illustrative image from iStock)
May 16, 2017, 12:47 am
My son finally stopped asking ‘am I going to die?’
On what it means to shutter Hadassah Hospital's pediatric hematology-oncology ward
By Gina Shaffer
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