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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 648

Soroka Medical Center

Prof. Ehud Ohana surveys his lab in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, destroyed by the June 19, 2025, Iranian ballistic missile strike, on June 24, 2025. (Courtesy/Dani Machlis)
July 3, 2025, 4:41 pm
Ben-Gurion University president: Iran strike has ‘far-reaching effects on Israeli science’
Anatomy lab and 14 others damaged or destroyed, with cost to university of $200m, in missile attack on Beersheba’s Soroka Hospital. But it’s impossible to put a price on researchers’ life’s work
By Diana Bletter
Israeli soldiers and rescue team work amid the rubble of residential buildings destroyed by an Iranian missile strike that killed several people, in Beersheba, Israel, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
June 24, 2025, 10:37 am
4 killed in Beersheba as Iran fires multiple missile salvos just before agreed-upon ceasefire
Six barrages target areas throughout the country ahead of truce announced by Trump for 7 a.m.; missile hits residential building in southern city, causing deaths and injuries
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
The devastation from an Iranian ballistic missile is seen at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, June 19, 2025. (Yair Tirosh/Flash90)
June 20, 2025, 6:05 am
‘God’s will’: Beersheba hospital moved patients underground hours before missile hit
Soroka Medical Center staff describe scenes of ‘complete destruction,’ say ‘we knew from the noise that it wasn’t like anything we were used to’
By Emily Rose
Doctors wheel a patient to safety after a building at Soroka Hospital was struck by an Iranian missile in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 19, 2025. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP)
June 20, 2025, 12:22 am
After devastating Iran strike, Soroka hospital closes to new patients, clears out wards
Health Ministry instructs hospital directors across Israel to minimize number of patients, discharge women soon after childbirth, over fears other medical centers may be targeted
By Diana Bletter, ToI Staff and Agencies
A medical staffer walks along a damaged area at the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran in Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
June 19, 2025, 1:20 pm
Israel vows to ‘exact full price from Tehran tyrants,’ calling hospital strike a war crime
Coalition and opposition politicians say Iran’s willingness to strike hospitals and civilians underlines the necessity of operation to prevent Tehran from attaining nuclear weapons
By Sam Sokol, Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian
The aftermath of an Iranian missile strike on Beersheba's Soroka Medical Center, June 19, 2025 (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
June 19, 2025, 12:01 pm
Heavy damage, injuries as Iranian missile hits Beersheba hospital; dozens hurt in central cities
30 missiles fired in early-morning barrage, warhead causes extensive damage to Soroka, southern Israel’s main hospital; Israel calls attack a war crime; 6 people seriously injured in Ramat Gan and Holon
By Emanuel Fabian, Charlie Summers, Diana Bletter and Agencies
The first baby born in 2025 in Beilinson Hospital mother Efrat Gilboa Menashe, center, Roy Gilboa Menashe, left, and midwife Mayson Issa. (Spokesperson's Office/Beilinson Hospital)
January 1, 2025, 4:14 pm
2025’s first babies born in shadow of the war, with joy accompanied by hopes for hostages
Around the country, the first babies usher in the new year; one father leaves reserve duty to greet his newborn son in Tiberias
By Diana Bletter
Screen capture from video of Health Minister Uriel Buso at the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper health conference, September 16, 2024. (Ynet. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 16, 2024, 6:51 pm
Health minister defends medical care for October 7 terrorists as intelligence asset
Uriel Buso says injured attackers treated in Israel have provided valuable information that helped rescue hostages from Gaza
By ToI Staff
A Bedouin child is brought to the emergency room at Soroka hospital in Beersheba, after his family home, a shed in an unrecognized Bedouin village near Dimona, was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza, on July 19, 2014. (Dudu Greenspan/ Flash90/ File)
September 8, 2024, 9:45 pm
Government signs permits for new Beersheba hospital after 10-year delay
Medical center slated to open in 2028; Health Minister Buso says it will ‘reduce the gap in medical treatment between the center and the periphery’
By Diana Bletter
Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 22, 2024, 1:45 pm
Doctor at Beersheba Hospital arrested for allegedly swearing allegiance to ISIS
Prosecutors say Soroka Medical Center specialist Muhammad Azzam pledged himself to Islamic State after Oct. 7, wished death on wounded Israeli soldiers treated at facility
By ToI Staff
Dr. Aviva Wolff with a patient at the Kaylie Rehabilitation Medical Center at ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran (Courtesy)
August 10, 2024, 4:49 am
Foreign doctors answer the call to help in Israel’s hospitals and rehab centers
Noting a need, these four medical professionals left their practices behind and took their ‘vacation’ to volunteer in Israel and help where they could
By Diana Bletter
Yoav Bichovsky, intensive care doctor at Soroka Hospital, speaks to Channel 12 from the Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center in an interview screened on July 22, 2024, as he recovers from injuries sustained in an RPG attack while he was in reserve service in Gaza. (Channel 12 Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 23, 2024, 1:43 pm
Wounded in Gaza RPG attack, ICU doctor is treated, unrecognized, by his own colleagues
When the ICU team at Soroka Hospital admitted a reservist seriously wounded and unconscious after an attack in Khan Younis, they didn’t realize it was their colleague Yoav Bichovsky
By ToI Staff
Chaplain Baruch Siris visits with patient Clara Stofkooper at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel, in this recent undated photo. (Courtesy/ Dina Frenkel)
May 17, 2024, 1:56 pm
Chaplain duo at Soroka hospital treat patients spiritually wounded by October 7
The country’s second-largest hospital has taken in some 3,000 people hurt during the Hamas atrocities and their aftermath, but as the clergy can attest, not all wounds are physical
By Diana Bletter
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
Elma Avraham sits in a wheelchair with Soroka Medical Center staff and her family ahead of her release from the hospital on May 8, 2024. (Soroka Medical Center)
May 9, 2024, 10:33 pm
Planning to ‘dance,’ freed hostage Elma Avraham, 85, leaves hospital after 5 months
Avraham, who was returned to Israel in critical condition in November, says she was moved around Gaza several times before entering tunnels, was made to recite Quran verses
By ToI Staff
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