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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

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Joanna Chen, Dua, and Rokia Abu Shakha, at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan. (Bernard Dichek)
January 16, 2025, 7:53 am
Hamas killed 6 of them on Oct. 7. Why these Israelis still drive Palestinians to hospitals
Road for Recovery program, launched in 2010 with donation by Leonard Cohen, now concentrates on bringing West Bank Palestinians to Israeli medical centers for lifesaving treatment
By Bernard Dichek
Soldiers help prepare the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa following the outbreak of war, October 11, 2023. (Courtesy of Rambam)
April 15, 2024, 7:56 pm
On high alert since October 7, hospitals were already prepared to deal with Iran attack
Administrators say IDF Home Front Command and Health Ministry have not instructed healthcare system to adjust readiness for possible widening of conflict
By Renee Ghert-Zand
One of the 10 operating rooms in a new 'mini-hospital' for ambulatory surgery at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center-Ichilov Hospital, February 2024. (Jenny Yerushalmi)
February 28, 2024, 2:36 pm
Surgery without a stay: Ichilov hospital unveils new operating rooms to cut wait times
System supporting 10 new operating rooms uses digital health to offer optimal care without adding beds to hospital’s wards
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A Clalit clinic in Herzliya. (Laliv g, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
August 27, 2023, 6:48 pm
Clalit Health Services teams with private security outfit to protect medical staff
With 1,000 violent incidents in its clinics so far this year, Israel’s largest HMO looks for solutions to protect its workers from attacks by patients and their families
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Laniado Hospital, also known as the Sanz Medical Center, in Kiryat Sanz in the coastal city of Netanya, March 26, 2020. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)
April 3, 2023, 4:10 am
Hospital confiscates pregnant woman’s cookies as new hametz law goes into effect
Guard at Netanya’s Laniado said to block entry over wafers, days before Passover starts; hospitals look to balance compliance with longstanding respect for all religious practices
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative. Pizza. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
March 26, 2023, 11:31 pm
Activists plan Passover ‘pizza party’ to protest hospital hametz law
Legislation would give hospital directors the power to ban leavened products from their institutions during the week-long holiday
By Canaan Lidor
View of the HaEmek Medical Center in Afula, Israel on February 12, 2018. (Flash90/ File)
March 20, 2023, 9:23 pm
Bill to let hospitals ban leavened bread over Passover cleared for final readings
Legislation’s authors note proposal doesn’t include enforcement measures, as opposition lawmakers denounce so-called hametz law as an assault on civil liberties
By Canaan Lidor
A medical clown from Dream Doctors, an Israeli nonprofit that was observed in new peer-reviewed research on medical clowning (courtesy of Dream Doctors)
January 17, 2023, 5:41 pm
Science of silliness: Israeli study deconstructs medical clowning so MDs use it more
Research is first to empirically map clowns’ skills, authors say, claiming it will help doctors understand their work and better integrate it into treatment
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image: an elderly woman in hospital (LightFieldStudios via iStock by Getty Images)
June 29, 2022, 6:07 pm
Israeli tech works to avert hospitalizations by flagging problems with clashing meds
Undetected problems with treatment regimens land many elderly patients in hospital; artificial intelligence system that sounds an alarm is built in Tel Aviv, deployed by Leumit HMO
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative: Nurses strike at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in protest of violence against medical personnel, July 4, 2018. (Courtesy: Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital)
May 28, 2022, 11:22 am
With rising attacks on medics, ministry okays budget to station cops at hospitals
Annual NIS 20 million to include funding for officers to be stationed at 28 medical centers; move comes after strike in response to increased attacks on medical staff
By ToI Staff
An outpatient at the ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran Rehabilitation Village, where a new hospital has opened (courtesy of the ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran Rehabilitation Village)
April 12, 2022, 10:49 pm
In Negev Desert, where healthcare lags, new rehabilitation hospital opens its doors
For the first time, southern Israel has its own hospital offering rehab after strokes, injuries, and accidents, boosting provision of rehab beds nationally by 10%
By Nathan Jeffay
Bread and butter (iStock)
April 6, 2022, 6:19 pm
Annual ‘hametz’ wars at center of crisis that could end Israel’s 36th government
Though it’s highly unlikely Idit Silman’s resignation from the coalition truly hinged on a battle over bread, her approach reflects a very real fight over Israel’s public character
By Judah Ari Gross
A man carries his child away from the Russian-bombarded maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
March 9, 2022, 9:11 pm
Russian strike devastates hospital in Mariupol; Zelensky: Kids buried under wreckage
At least 17 people confirmed wounded; British PM accuses Putin of ‘targeting the vulnerable and defenseless,’ says Russian leader will account for his crimes
By VADIM GHIRDA and YURAS KARMANAU
Healthcare workers wear safety gear as they work in the COVID ward of the Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, on January 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 13, 2022, 6:40 pm
COVID czar: Non-essential medical treatment may need to be halted in Omicron wave
Salman Zarka says he cannot promise that a lockdown will not become necessary if hospitals are overwhelmed
By Amy Spiro
Mark and Erica Gerson help fund Christian missionary hospitals in Africa, but religion has little to do with it. (Michael Gerson/ via JTA)
October 11, 2021, 6:29 am
Meet the Jewish couple funding Christian missionary hospitals in Africa
Rabbi Erica Gerson and husband Mark often get strange looks when people hear about their charity work, but they say they’re following the Jewish tenet of protecting life above all
By Asaf Shalev
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