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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 650

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A billboard showing Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara accuses her of spinning tales against the government, in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2024. The billboard dubs Baharav-Miara 'judicial seamstress to the government,' in a Hebrew-language pun on her office's name. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 27, 2025, 1:53 pm
Daily Briefing May 27: Day 599 – Netanyahu, AG and High Court edge closer to crisis
Legal correspondent Jeremy Sharon discusses latest in the Shin Bet chief saga; health editor Diana Bletter reviews what hospitals have learned from treating released hostages
By Jessica Steinberg, Jeremy Sharon and Diana Bletter
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
Rubbish and debris are scattered near damaged buildings in the vicinity of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on October 31, 2024. (AFP)
December 27, 2024, 6:54 pm
IDF launches new raid on north Gaza hospital, saying Hamas operatives returned
Kamal Adwan Hospital director says five staff members killed in Israeli strike on facility, which military says is ‘terrorist stronghold’; IDF says officer died Thursday in clash
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Illustrative: An NYU Langone Health ambulance in New York City, March 26, 2020. (Cindy Ord / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP)
May 29, 2024, 11:54 pm
NYC nurse fired after referring to Gaza ‘genocide’ in award acceptance speech
Palestinian-American Hesen Jabr was being honored for compassion toward bereaved mothers; had been warned against divisive statements after unspecified December incident
By AP
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
Undercover Israeli forces operate inside Ibn Sina hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin to kill terror operatives, January 30, 2024. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 9, 2024, 11:07 pm
Israeli targeting of terrorists in Jenin hospital may be war crime, UN experts say
Special rapporteurs say Israel appears to have attacked a defenseless injured person in hospital, while practicing deceit
By Reuters and ToI Staff
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: Doctors perform cardiac catheterizations at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, in Jerusalem, on January 20, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 10, 2023, 7:26 pm
Israel to trim med student internships in bid to tackle ‘dire’ shortage of doctors
Decision to halve length of medical internships and restructure them will boost number of practicing physicians and lead to better-trained doctors, Health Ministry says
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
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