hospitals

In this photo from September 26, 2018, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

November 8, 2018, 4:59 pm

Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall

Jewish US Supreme Court justice to miss welcoming ceremony for Brett Kavanaugh due to hospitalization; she broke 2 ribs in 2012 fall

By AP

Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, president of Alleghery General Hospital in Pittsburgh. (Screen capture: Twitter)

October 30, 2018, 7:54 pm

Jewish doctors treated anti-Semitic Pittsburgh gunman after rampage

Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, president of Allegheny General Hospital, says at least 3 staff members who tended to Robert Bowers are Jews

By JTA

Margaret Oliele, former detained patient, poses for a portrait in her home in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

October 25, 2018, 7:47 pm

In hospitals all over the world, patients are held hostage for cash

Medical centers are illegally detaining patients after they’re discharged, using armed guards, locked doors, and even chains to hold those who haven’t paid up

By Maria Cheng

A view of the Ronald O. Perelman Emergency Center at NYU Langone hospital in 2014. (Governor Andrew Cuomo/Flickr/via JTA)

May 29, 2018, 4:45 am

Hasidic volunteers kicked out of major NY hospital blame clash on medical ethics

Satmar Bikur Cholim, operating since 1952, has been banned from the NYU-Langone Hospital in Manhattan. Organization workers say it’s due to a disagreement on end of life care

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a press conference in Istanbul, December 13, 2017. (AFP/Yasin Akgul)

May 20, 2018, 2:35 pm

Suffering chest pains, Abbas taken to hospital for the third time in a week

Sources say PA leader had trouble walking, has fever and may have pneumonia; his office says he is following up on ear surgery from last week

By TOI staff

An image of the daughter of former Russian Spy Sergei Skripal, Yulia Skripal, taken from Yulia Skipal's Facebook account on March 6, 2018. (Yulia Skripal/Facebook via AP)

April 10, 2018, 11:11 am

Ex-Russian spy’s daughter discharged from hospital after poisoning

British media say Yulia Skripal, who was in critical condition after being attacked in Britain alongside her father, taken to ‘secure location’

By Agencies

Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel, head of Jerusalem's rabbinical court. (Dudu Greenspan/FLASH90)

April 2, 2018, 5:06 pm

Rabbi: Non-Jews can bring bread into hospitals on Passover

Eliyahu Abergel, head of Jerusalem rabbinical court, blasts ‘humiliating’ checks for ‘hametz’ at hospital entrances

By Sue Surkes

Israeli security officials drag an assailant into custody after he attacked two police officers and an elderly couple in their Haifa apartment before barricading himself inside on March 12, 2018. (Screen capture/Hadashot news)

March 12, 2018, 12:02 pm

Man armed with handsaw attacks cops, seniors in Haifa

One man in 80s seriously injured in rampage by mentally ill assailant near hospital

By TOI staff

Illustrative: An employee of the Palestinian health ministry checks the Beit Hanun hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, after it stopped its services on January 29, 2018, when it ran out of fuel. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP)

February 11, 2018, 11:13 pm

Gaza’s largest hospital suspends surgeries due to cleaners’ strike

While emergency operations will continue, protest threatens patients’ and workers’ lives, due to dangerous accumulation of medical garbage

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Screenshot from CCTV footage of security guards being assaulted at Ichilov Hospital, in Tel Aviv, September 2017

January 17, 2018, 2:09 pm

Five jailed for assaulting Ichilov Hospital guards

Gang leader David Amoyal to go to prison for 25 months, four others to serve 17 to 22 months each

By TOI staff

Screen capture from video of a group of men confronting security guards in the ER unit of Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, September 27, 2017. (YouTube/Times of Israel)

December 26, 2017, 1:00 pm

After fleeing country, crime boss charged for beating hospital guards

David Amoyal was arrested last week for his suspected involvement in violent assault on staff at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov medical center

By Raoul Wootliff

October 8, 2017, 1:00 pm

Five charged with assaulting Tel Aviv hospital guards

Prosecution demands four men be held until trial’s end as part of war on ‘plague’ of hospital violence sweeping country

By Sue Surkes

An altercation between security guards and the family of a patient is seen outside the Ichilov Hospital ER, June 27, 2017 (Security camera footage/Courtesy Ichilov Hospital)

September 28, 2017, 2:29 pm

Tel Aviv hospital guards attacked, beaten by patient’s family

3 security officers suffer light-to-moderate injuries after 5 men assault them at ER; their relative, 19, was reportedly unhappy with treatment

By Itamar Sharon

Illustrative: Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian rioter in Wadi Joz, near the Old City of Jerusalem, July 21, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

August 16, 2017, 7:25 pm

Police accused of assaulting staff, patients at East Jerusalem hospital

Left-wing group says border guards used violence while searching for rioters, may have caused the death of a patient

By TOI staff

Palestinian chief negotiator and secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Saeb Erekat, during a press conference in the West Bank city of Jericho on February 15, 2017. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

August 1, 2017, 11:57 am

Top PA official Saeb Erekat treated in Israel as he awaits lung transplant

Chief Palestinian negotiator has been scaling back his activities in recent months as he battles pulmonary fibrosis

By TOI staff