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IDF Medical Corps

Maj. Yair Zloof (IDF)
August 26, 2025, 10:38 pm
Maj. Yair Zloof, 32: IDF physician who ‘lit up the world’
Killed on October 10, 2023, near the Gaza border
By ToI Staff
Soldiers wounded in the Gaza Strip are brought to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, May 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 22, 2024, 1:04 pm
As more troops survive injuries, some credit battlefield transfusions of whole blood
IDF only military in the world currently performing procedure pioneered by US army; while no proof yet to declare it a panacea, fight against Hezbollah may prove its worth
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Wounded IDF paramedic Gaya Zubery (left) speaks with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi as he visits wounded soldiers at Sheba Medical Center. (IDF)
May 12, 2024, 8:51 pm
Healing the nation: Group of medical personnel to jointly light Independence Day torch
Hospital doctors, a nurse, a 20-year-old female IDF paramedic severely wounded in Gaza and a health nonprofit founder will share the honor
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A soldier arrives at Sheba Medical Center for treatment after being evacuated from the battlefield by an IDF helicopter during the Israel-Hamas war, October 2023. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
February 22, 2024, 1:33 pm
Inside RAM 2, the IDF Medical Corps unit that cares for hospitalized soldiers
Greatly expanded since the war began, RAM 2 units respond to the practical and emotional needs of wounded soldiers and their families while liaising with the army on their behalf
By Renee Ghert-Zand
IDF soldiers preparing to enter Gaza use high-tech wounded 'body parts' during MSR training simulations on the Gaza border, October 2023. (Courtesy of MSR)
January 3, 2024, 2:24 pm
High-tech medical simulation training arrived ‘just in time’ for IDF medics
Soldiers use computer-controlled anatomically correct mannequins to learn key lifesaving procedures for use on the battlefield
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Hamas gunmen surrender to IDF troops at northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, in a handout image published December 14, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 22, 2023, 2:23 pm
Health Ministry issues directives for medical treatment of detained Gazan terrorists
Following deaths of several Palestinians at IDF Sde Teiman medical facility, the government gives clear instructions about care for ‘illegal combatants’
By Renee Ghert-Zand and ToI Staff
Doctors demonstrate against the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
July 18, 2023, 6:07 pm
Israel Medical Association announces 2-hour ‘warning strike’ for Wednesday morning
Medical residents’ organization, nurses’ group, and IDF Medical Corps reserves join in call to take major steps to oppose government’s judicial legislation
By Renee Ghert-Zand
IDF medical officers treat wounded Turkish civillians at a field hospital near Kahramanmaraş, February 14, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 15, 2023, 7:39 pm
After treating hundreds, IDF medical delegation to quake-hit Turkey back in Israel
IDF chief says there were some security concerns with field hospital — but not enough to prompt second thoughts about coming to save victims of earthquake
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF medical officers treat wounded Turkish civillians at a field hospital near Kahramanmaraş, February 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 11, 2023, 8:28 pm
IDF field hospital in Turkey treats 180 injured in quake, including Syrian refugees
Arabic-speaking officer recounts treating 4-year-old Syrian boy who lost his parents in the disaster, and his uncle saying ‘You Israelis treat us better than our people’
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF search and rescue teams work to find survivors after an earthquake in Turkey on February 9, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 9, 2023, 12:14 pm
IDF teams rescue 17 civilians in quake-hit south Turkey, set up field hospital
Overnight, Home Front Command search and rescue experts pull 26-year-old woman, 65-year-old man out of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaraş
By Emanuel Fabian
A team of IDF personnel lands in Turkey on February 8, 2023, to set up a field hospital to treat those wounded in the devastating earthquake two days earlier. (IDF)
February 8, 2023, 8:43 pm
With 15 cargo planes, IDF begins setting up field hospital in quake-stricken Turkey
Military ferries hundreds of tons of equipment and 230 medical experts to southeastern Turkey, as 150 Home Front Command soldiers continue to search for survivors under the rubble
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF search and rescue teams begin operating in a bid to find survivors after an earthquake in Turkey on February 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 8, 2023, 1:30 pm
IDF teams rescue 4 during operations in quake-hit south Turkey
Footage shows young woman and boy pulled from rubble alive; preliminary military team lands to establish field hospital
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF Home Front Command search and rescue teams and Turkish medics rescue a young woman trapped under rubble in southeastern Turkey, after an earthquake on February 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 7, 2023, 10:25 pm
IDF to set up field hospital in Turkey; Israel’s search and rescue team starts work
Delegation of 230 troops, medics to depart Wednesday; top IDF doctor: ‘This is a difficult hour for the Turkish nation, we are proud we can come and assist’
By Emanuel Fabian
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Sheba Medical Center
May 18, 2021, 7:28 pm
Even underground, the healing and caring continue
Just 1,000 meters from a rocket strike, Sheba Medical Center moves the tiniest patients into an underground ward
By Brian Abrahams
Israeli soldiers wearing protective face masks walk on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on June 23, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 2, 2021, 3:14 pm
IDF says no active COVID cases among soldiers, in first since start of outbreak
Military declares itself coronavirus-free as Health Ministry records only 13 daily cases nationwide, the lowest in nearly a year
By Judah Ari Gross
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