Health Ministry

Medical marijuana smoking supplies at a store adjacant to the 'Tikun Olam' store in Tel Aviv, on April 10, 2016. Tikun Olam Ltd. is the largest supplier of medical Cannabis in Israel, operating under license from the Israel Ministry of Health since 2007. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

November 7, 2018, 3:11 pm

Thousands of patients in limbo as ministry temporarily shuts top cannabis grower

As health officials cite concerns with hygiene, patients left with with no way to fill prescriptions fume at both ministry and Tikun Olam company over ‘broken system’

By Melanie Lidman

Illustration of a man receiving a vaccine in Safed. November 06, 2018.(David Cohen/FLASH90)

November 6, 2018, 7:08 pm

Measles vaccination rates in anti-vaxxer areas of Jerusalem leap to 80%

Health Ministry announces rise in ‘pockets’ of city with historically low numbers of vaccinated residents, as campaign to combat outbreak of disease gathers steam

By TOI staff

An child is vaccinated at a Tipat Halav clinic in Jerusalem on August 18, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

November 4, 2018, 8:26 pm

Vaccination campaign launched in Orthodox neighborhoods amid measles outbreak

Health ministry unveils ‘intensive measures’ to combat contagious disease; will ban unvaccinated visitors from some ‘sensitive’ hospital wards

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative: Newborn baby suffering from measles. (iStock by Getty Images/andriano_cz)

November 1, 2018, 8:47 pm

Toddler dies of measles in Jerusalem, in first such incident in 15 years

Amid spike in cases throughout Israel, Health Ministry chief considers banning from schools children whose parents refuse to vaccinate them

By TOI staff

Illustrative: Israeli schoolchildren, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)

October 24, 2018, 12:35 pm

Education Ministry ends suicide prevention program over missing budget – report

Official says Health Ministry has not supplied required funding to continue activities to identify those at risk and intervene

By Stuart Winer

A female prostitute stands outside a brothel in south Tel Aviv, looking at a policewoman nearby, September 21, 2008. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

October 22, 2018, 10:07 pm

Knesset advances bill imposing hefty fines on prostitution clients

Under proposal, first-time offenders would have to pay NIS 1,500, with courts able to levy a maximum penalty of NIS 75,300 on repeat johns

By Raoul Wootliff

Measles Mumps Rubella Vaccine Vials With Syringe. (iStock by Getty Images/ AndreyPopov)

October 18, 2018, 6:49 pm

Health Ministry to mull sanctions on anti-vaxxer families

Amid measles outbreak, deputy minister says immunizations are ‘foundation to preventing dangerous infectious diseases’

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative image of a baby with a skin disease. (Triocean/iStock Images/Getty)

October 10, 2018, 4:39 pm

Health officials warn of measles outbreak after passenger flies with disease

Ministry says over 600 people have contracted illness in 2018, a 2,000 percent rise over 2017; children and others on plane from Eilat to Tel Aviv urged to get checked

By Stuart Winer

Guatemala's former Vice President Roxana Baldetti listens to judge Miguel Angel Galvez during a pre-trial hearing at a courtroom in Guatemala City, October 26, 2017. (Luis Soto/AP)

October 9, 2018, 4:52 pm

Guatemala ex-VP jailed for 15 years over fraud scheme with Israeli firm

Israeli businessman reportedly gets 11 years in prison for role in $18 million sham project to clean up Lake Amatitlan

By AP and TOI staff

Ari Nagel visits the Tel Aviv port, June 27, 2017. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)

October 9, 2018, 6:47 am

Health Ministry told to explain why fecund sperm donor blackballed

The Supreme Court wants to know why Israel is rejecting the seed of American Ari Nagel, who has sired at least 33 children with his free donations

By JTA

September 17, 2018, 6:55 pm

Health Ministry warns of possible measles infection on Uman flights to Israel

Passengers who traveled to Tel Aviv on three specific flights said to be at risk, urged to see a doctor immediately

By TOI staff

August 29, 2018, 1:57 am

Health Ministry urges vaccination after massive increase in measles cases

Ministry says 262 people have caught the potentially fatal disease so far in 2018, compared with only 9 in 2016

By TOI staff and AFP

A mosquito bites a person. (iStock from Getty Images/fotomarekka)

August 27, 2018, 7:49 pm

Health Ministry announces third death in West Nile fever outbreak

With 74 people hospitalized from mosquito-transmitted disease, ministry blames global warming for massive increase in cases, warns people to protect against insect bites

By TOI staff

August 27, 2018, 2:28 pm

Golan Heights stream closed to waders over E. coli fears

Health Ministry says this is third time the bacteria found in high concentrations in El Al waterway, stresses closure not connected to leptospirosis outbreak

By TOI staff

People swim in two freshwater pools that rest under a large waterfall of the Zavitan River (Phil Sussman/Flash90)

August 27, 2018, 6:24 am

Zavitan Stream reopens to public after danger of bacterial infection passes

Other waterways in the north remain closed, but Health Ministry says several tests of the stream’s water show it is now safe

By TOI staff