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An underground parking area converted into a treatment ward at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, after many patients were relocated following the outbreak of war, June 8, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 6, 2026, 4:49 pm
1,370 doctors left Israel over past 3 years, research finds, the equivalent of a hospital
Tel Aviv University researchers document extensive brain drain in 2023-2025, with a fivefold increase over previous decade in annual departures of physicians who haven’t returned
By Diana Bletter
A teacher educates children at the al-Mawasi camp in the Gaza Children's Village. (Courtesy)
August 25, 2026, 10:04 am
Israeli aid group announces new medical clinic for 10,000 children in Gaza refugee camp
Set to open September 1 in crowded Al-Mawasi, facility will provide vaccinations, consultations, rehab for children with disabilities, education services with anti-hate messaging
By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff
Shorty, at left, is part of a thriving community of medical clowns in Israel. (Deborah Danan/ JTA)
July 17, 2026, 11:34 pm
Medical clowns offer serious relief for Israeli kids recovering from trauma
Brashness, innovation and willingness to take risks put Israel at global forefront of growing discipline as the country continues to reel from Oct. 7 and subsequent years of conflict
By Deborah Danan
Meitar Roz keeps it positive while in the hospital in an undated photo. (Courtesy of the Roz family)
June 19, 2026, 7:49 pm
Back on his feet: Thousands fund Israeli boy’s $3.2m degenerative disease treatment
Friends, family, strangers chip in for 8-year-old Meitar Roz’s life-changing DMD therapy in campaign launched by mother and IDF reservist father after state denied request for help
By Lianne Kolirin
Dr. Nadia Khir, right, the first female Druze doctor in Israel, consults with a Druze woman in the Clalit health clinic in Julis, Western Galilee, on May 22, 2026. (Courtesy)
May 23, 2026, 7:12 am
First female Druze doctor in Israel awarded prize for breaking barriers
Dr. Nadia Khir honored with prestigious Habama Shelahen prize for blazing trail 35 years ago; ‘wanted to help’ women in her community who couldn’t seek care from male practitioners
By Diana Bletter
Dr. Nir Asch, a doctor and researcher in the psychiatric department of Rambam Health Care Campus. (Courtesy/Rambam Spokesperson's Office)
February 19, 2026, 10:35 am
In breakthrough, Israeli scientists use deep-brain stimulation to counter schizophrenia
Novel study by researchers at the Rambam Health Care Campus could help 21 million people worldwide suffering from the severe lifelong mental disorder
By Diana Bletter
Rafidia Surgical Hospital, Sept. 6, 2024, in the West Bank city of Nablus. (AP /Aref Tufaha)
February 11, 2026, 12:38 pm
Israel bars entry of 5-year-old from West Bank for cancer care, citing Gaza address
Doctors say Palestinian child must begin intensive treatment ‘without delay’ as his life is in immediate danger; boy’s mother describes ruling as ‘death sentence’
By ToI Staff
Holocaust survivor Chana Sandouvsky shows her A-14147 number tattoo from Auschwitz in her home in Kiryat Bialik on April 16, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
January 27, 2026, 6:35 pm
Survey: Technological and other gaps leave more Holocaust survivors forgoing medical care
CEO of nonprofit LeMa’anam says 28% of Israel’s 110,000 survivors are housebound and have difficulty coordinating and reaching services, compounded by Israel’s digital transition
By Diana Bletter
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Group photo of the JOWMA North American delegation at the Hackathon.
December 10, 2025, 9:23 pm
When crisis became a catalyst: Two medical students build a mission for Israel
Inside the student-led initiative reconnecting Israel’s medical community with the world.
By Tamar Marmorstein and Garrick Hoichman
Shady Farah, left, head of the Farah Laboratory for Advanced Functional/Medicinal Polymers & Smart Drug Delivery Technologies at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering and PhD Student Qi Wu with their hydrogel inspired by mollusks. (Courtesy)
October 27, 2025, 3:46 pm
Pulling mussels for a gel, Technion team creates bio-glue to seal internal wounds
Imitating the way mollusks use natural adhesives to stick to rocks, researchers develop biodegradable, anti-bacterial hydrogel they say can close up bleeding tissue within seconds
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Abd Al-Roof Higazi, director of the Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Division at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem (Courtesy/Hadassah Medical Center)
September 10, 2025, 5:48 am
Israeli plasma filter promises cutting-edge solution to life-threatening bleeds
ClearPlasma device gets rid of anti-clotting proteins in blood that can endanger trauma victims or surgery patients, researcher says, marking rare advance in oft-overlooked field
By Diana Bletter
Simon Fischler, center, with Dr. Ben Ben Avraham, left, and Prof. Leor Perl, right, after Fischler's groundbreaking emergency heart surgery at Rabin Medical Center. (Courtesy/Rabin Medical Center)
August 25, 2025, 4:37 pm
Israeli doctors perform 1st ever emergency mitral valve repair on heart transplant patient
33 years after Simon Fischler, 47, had a heart transplant, Rabin Medical Center team conducts procedure, attempted only twice before, but never on a patient in cardiogenic shock
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: A nurse cleaning a wound on a patient (Serhii Hryshchyshen via iStock by Getty Images)
January 31, 2023, 12:45 pm
Autism intensifies experience of pain, Israeli study finds, challenging assumptions
Largest study on pain responses may affect medical treatment by making doctors and nurses aware that patients with autism may be hurting more than others, but don’t communicate it
By Nathan Jeffay
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
Orit Strock, now National Missions Minister, seen at the Religious Zionist party headquarters in Modi'in on elections night, March 23, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
January 11, 2023, 7:42 pm
Doctors union takes aim at minister who claimed faith is grounds to deny treatment
Israel Medical Association runs TV, radio ads saying MDs will never discriminate against patients, after far-right Orit Strock said they should be able to if it violates religion
By Nathan Jeffay
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