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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Shevet Achim

Umm Naim reacts to the news of the death of her children, November 5, 2023 (Shevet Achim)
November 8, 2023, 10:44 am
Days after speaking about peace, Gazan mother’s 3 children killed in Strip blast
Umm Naim told ToI a week ago in an Israeli hospital that peace is her dream; after the death of children in Al Maghazi explosion, she now says Israel will ‘taste the fire’
By Lazar Berman
Gazan women and children in the Shevet Achim house in Ashdod as they receive ongoing medical care in Israel, October 29, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
November 2, 2023, 12:11 pm
Angry and tired, Gazan mothers stuck in Israel after medical care want to get home
Civilians were in Israel on October 7 as their children received life-saving surgery. They make plain they appreciate the care, even as some blame Israel for Gaza’s woes
By Lazar Berman
File: Christian Zionists at a 2013 Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem. (Times of Israel/Lazar Berman)
March 22, 2023, 9:29 pm
Despite PM’s assurances, Christian Zionists bedeviled by anti-missionary bill
UTJ-sponsored bill, submitted at start of every Knesset, is not meant to become law, says spokesman — but millions of Christian supporters of Israel globally have taken notice
By Lazar Berman
Sineor, a 17-month-old Yazidi child who died during an attempt at life-saving surgery in Israel. (Courtesy Shevet Achim)
December 9, 2022, 3:03 pm
Body of Yazidi child who died during surgery refused passage at Ben Gurion
Toddler being taken across land border to Jordan after death in Jerusalem hospital; mother forced to return to Iraq without his remains
By Lazar Berman
Sineor, a 17-month-old Yazidi child who died during an attempt at life-saving surgery in Israel. (Courtesy Shevet Achim)
December 9, 2022, 4:45 am
Body of Yazidi child who died during surgery in Israel stuck at Ben Gurion Airport
Toddler expires in Jerusalem hospital after operation meant to fix congenital heart defect; mother forced to return to Iraq without his remains
By Lazar Berman
Yazidi newborn Hena arrives in Israel from Iraqi Kurdistan with her uncle to undergo life-saving heart surgery at Sheba Hospital (courtesy Shevet Achim)
April 4, 2021, 4:38 pm
After agonizing wait, Israel lets in Yazidi baby for life-saving treatment
Newborn Hena from Iraq reaches Sheba Hospital; eight more Kurdish babies requiring emergency surgery to enter from Jordan on Tuesday
By Lazar Berman
Hena, a Yazidi newborn from Sinjar, waits in a Duhok hospital for permission to enter Israel for life-saving heart surgery. (Shevet Achim)
March 22, 2021, 6:44 pm
Kurdish babies’ lives hang in balance as Israeli red tape blocks their last hope
Doctors near Tel Aviv are ready to operate, but a hellish bureaucratic mess between government bodies means sick children are being kept from surgery that can save their lives
By Lazar Berman
Aryeh Deri, head of the Shas party, greets supporters as the results in the Israeli general elections are announced at the party headquarters in Jerusalem, April 09, 2019. (Flash90)
April 18, 2019, 11:33 pm
Let Iraqi baby into Israel for emergency surgery, group implores minister
Officials tell Jerusalem-based medical NGO that interior minister ‘unreachable’ until after Passover, but Shevet Achim says clock is ticking for two-month old Roman
By Tamar Pileggi
Illustrative: A father waits while hospital staff attend to his baby, brought to Israel for life-saving heart surgery by Shevet Achim NGO. (Screen capture: Vimeo)
September 25, 2018, 8:59 am
Iraqi-Kurdish baby heads to Israel for urgent surgery after minister intervenes
On eve of Sukkot, Interior Ministry approves emergency arrival of newborn with congenital heart condition for life-saving treatment
By ToI Staff
Eighteen month old Iraqi Christian refugee Maryam at the Shevet Achim headquarters in Jerusalem, February 2015 (photo credit: Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
February 26, 2015, 4:27 pm
Israeli doctors try to save Christian baby who fled Islamic State
A refugee running out of time and options for her sick daughter, Aramaic speaker Lina hopes her prayers will be answered in Jerusalem
By Lazar Berman
A Syrian mother and daughter at Wolfson Hospital, brought to Israel by Shevet Achim (photo credit: Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
January 28, 2014, 2:53 pm
Sa’ar’s new rules ‘preventing Israel from saving lives’
NGO claims recent Interior Ministry regulations needlessly hold up permits for sick children from enemy states
By Lazar Berman
An emaciated child and her mother in the Kawargosk refugee camp (photo credit: courtesy/Kelsey Cannon)
January 28, 2014, 2:50 pm
For some dying Syrian children, Israel is the only hope
A mission to locate ailing refugees in Iraqi camps reveals the unlikely network that brings them to the Jewish state
By Lazar Berman
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