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Prof. Tal Dvir, Head of the Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology, Head of the Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University, and Chief Scientist of the biotech company Matricelf. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
August 21, 2025, 1:43 pm
In world 1st bid to cure paralysis, Israeli team gears up to implant innovative spinal cord
With Health Ministry okay, Tel Aviv University prof will perform surgery that will mark the first time pieces of spine are engineered from human cells and then transplanted
By Diana Bletter
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 31, 2024. (Marc Israel Sellem/ Flash90)
April 1, 2024, 9:32 pm
Netanyahu to be released from hospital on Tuesday after hernia surgery
PM was reportedly set to be discharged on Monday, but was advised to stay an extra day
By ToI Staff
Surgeons at Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital remove tissue from a huge cyst in a 12-year-old girl, January 2024. (Courtesy of Assuta)
March 14, 2024, 2:39 pm
Surgeons in Ashdod remove remnants of twin from 12-year-old girl’s swollen abdomen
Girl suffered from a 10-kilogram cyst growing in her belly before doctors discovered it contained an embryo’s hair, bones, and cartilage
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
Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon Dr. Teodoro Forcht Dagi at Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, October 2023. (Maayan Janus/Sheba Medical Center)
November 13, 2023, 4:15 pm
Top US neurosurgeon volunteers hard-won wartime expertise at Sheba Medical Center
Mayo Clinic head trauma specialist Dr. Teodoro Dagi brings knowledge gained from global conflict work – including in Kosovo and Northern Ireland – to treating Israel’s war-injured
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Music therapist Dana Shira Garai plays guitar and sings for Nadav, who was wounded defending Kibbutz Magen from Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. Sheba Medical Center, October 15, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)
October 17, 2023, 1:38 pm
From his hospital bed, injured kibbutznik recounts how his community fended off Hamas
Civil defense team member Nadav talks of harrowing battle with terrorists, his wife’s terrible wait to hear if he was alive and the long recovery ahead
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Cezar Mizrahi uses augmented reality robotic technology in complex minimally invasive spine surgery for the first time in the world in August 2023. (Courtesy of Shaare Zedek Medical Center)
August 30, 2023, 2:31 pm
In global first, Shaare Zedek spine surgeon combines augmented reality with robotics
25-year-old patient with severely broken back after falling from a height was on his feet and walking without assistance less than a day after the procedure
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Noa Ofek Shlomai, head of neonatology at Hadassah Medical Center, holds the baby who successfully underwent surgery immediately following birth to correct bilateral ovarian torsion detected in-utero. Next to them are Dr. Dan Arbel (center), director of the pediatric oncology surgery department, and Dr. Shay Porat, director of the obstetrics and gynecology ultrasound service. (courtesy)
July 31, 2023, 9:27 pm
In what it says is world first, Hadassah medical team saves fetus’s twisted ovaries
As clock ticks, doctors deliver and perform immediate surgery on 35-week preemie, in bid to preserve her future fertility and hormonal health
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a video message,explaining that he is going into the hospital to have a pacemaker fitted, early on July 23, 2023. (Screenshot)
July 23, 2023, 4:14 am
Netanyahu has pacemaker fitted, on eve of final votes on coalition’s overhaul bill
Week after being hospitalized for ‘dehydration’ and getting heart monitor, warning from device prompts surgery for cardiac pacing machine; Levin acting PM, cabinet meeting delayed
By Michael Bachner
Dr. Loren Schechter (center), one of the United States' foremost experts on transgender surgery, with teams from Galilee Medical Center and Sheba Medical Center, July 2023. (Roni Albert)
July 11, 2023, 2:48 pm
Gender-affirming surgery performed at Galilee Medical Center for first time
Until now, all such operations were done at Sheba Medical Center; expert from Chicago guides teams from both hospitals in three male-to-female procedures
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Ohad Einav and Ziv Asa with 12-year-old Suleiman Hassan at Hadassah Medical Center following his recovery after surgery to reattach his head to his neck after he suffered internal decapitation in an accident. (Courtesy of Hadassah Medical Center)
July 5, 2023, 7:55 pm
Hadassah surgeons reattach boy’s head to his neck after internal decapitation
Suleiman, 12, who was hit by a car while riding his bicycle, undergoes extremely rare operation after his ligaments were broken, base of skull severed from spine’s top vertebra
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A doctor uses the Beyeonics One headset to assist with eye surgery. (Courtesy of Beyeonics)
February 14, 2023, 10:19 pm
From cockpit to cataract ops: Israeli flight headsets adapted, approved for surgery
Augmented reality system now being rolled out in Europe after receiving CE mark; doctor says it ‘feels like being inside the eye during surgery’
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative: A medical team performs surgery in a modern operating room. (gorodenkoff; iStock by Getty Images)
November 17, 2022, 6:12 pm
Patient demands $166,000 after surgeons operate on wrong leg
‘I got the shock of my life,’ says man, who will likely need to undergo more surgery after blunder by Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod
By ToI Staff
The human skeleton found in Borneo, dated to about 31,000 years ago, pictured in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia is photographed on March 4, 2020. (Courtesy of Tim Maloney/Griffith University via AP)
September 7, 2022, 11:11 pm
Ancient skeleton suggests amputation was successfully carried out 31,000 years ago
Bones of young man unearthed in Indonesia indicate his ankle and foot were removed deliberately, and that he survived for years after the complex operation
By Sara Hussein
Rambam Health Care Campus physicians Dr. Shai Menachem, left, and Dr. Ory Keynan, perform back surgery using the anterior-to-psoas method for the first time in Israel. (Courtesy of Rambam Health Care Campus)
August 23, 2022, 10:57 am
New to Israel: Back surgery via the waist, using advanced keyhole method
An 80-year-old woman becomes the first Israeli to receive a spinal fusion operation — which normally involves opening up the back — via a tiny incision in the waist instead
By Nathan Jeffay
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