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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

Uriel Buso

A portrait of Arab and Jewish doctors is part of 'Hamsa Aleinu,' a new exhibit at Ben Gurion Airport (Courtesy Eldad Refaeli)
February 13, 2025, 12:59 am
With physician shortage ‘urgent,’ 2 new medical schools to open in Israel
University of Haifa’s medical school aims to strengthen healthcare in the north; Weizmann Institute’s school is tuition-free, combining scientific research and medicine
By Diana Bletter
A woman pauses near posters of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, as Israel's security cabinet convened to decide whether to approve a deal that would release dozens of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and pause the 15-month-war, January 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
February 11, 2025, 10:10 pm
State Comptroller says 3 million Israelis suffering from trauma since October 7
Engelman faults Health Ministry for ‘collapsed’ health care system; Health Minister Uriel Buso set to double the scope of mental health services
By Diana Bletter
This image released by the IDF on January 20, 2024, shows the inside of a cell in a Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis where hostages were held. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 29, 2024, 12:03 pm
Teens forced to perform sexual acts on each other: Report to UN details Hamas torture
Government document compiles grim details of abuse of hostages, including whipping, branding with heated iron, isolation, binding, starving, maltreatment and psychological torment
By Michael Bachner and Diana Bletter
Members of the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terror groups release Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 28, 2023. (Flash90)
December 26, 2024, 10:21 am
Burned, beaten, starved: Health Ministry compiles hostage testimonies to submit to UN
Final report to be presented to UN committee that deals with torture; health minister says it should be a ‘wake-up call’ to pressure Hamas into releasing remaining captives
By Stuart Winer and 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
Dr. Hilla Hadas, CEO of Enosh, center, with Health Minister Uriel Buright, and Ayelet Nahmias Verbin, chair of the Jewish Agency fund for victims of terror at the Enosh Mental Health Conference on September 4, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
September 4, 2024, 8:01 pm
Israel in worst-ever mental health crisis amid ongoing war, says minister
At Tel Aviv conference, Uriel Busso promises to upgrade mental health system; survivors and the bereaved share stories, encourage people not to be afraid to get help
By Diana Bletter
An Israeli wounded by rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel arrives at Ziv hospital in Safed, October 17, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)
August 5, 2024, 7:53 pm
Israeli hospitals declare themselves prepared for mass casualty events
Since the start of war, hospitals have conducted drills, stockpiled supplies, and moved wards underground, readying themselves for worst-case scenarios, with MDA cooperation
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a special cabinet meeting at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day, June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 7, 2024, 9:13 pm
Cabinet slashes health, welfare and education to fund aid to displaced residents
Wide-ranging cuts come only days after Knesset allocates hundreds of millions of shekels in ‘surplus’ coalition funds to government ministries deemed superfluous by treasury
By Sam Sokol
Health officials at the announcement of the 2024 health basket recommendations. The center three are (left to right): Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman Tov, Health Minister Uriel Busso, and health basket committee chair Prof. Dina Ben-Yehuda, February 22, 2024. (Courtesy of Health Ministry)
February 23, 2024, 5:46 pm
Israel’s 2024 health basket gets 110 new medications and technologies
This year will see an expansion of genetic testing, treatment for adult ADHD, innovative diabetes management, and new drugs for cancer and chronic and rare diseases
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Human remains of victims of the mass murderous attack by Hamas on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023 await advanced examination at the National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Jaffa, October 16, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 21, 2024, 1:59 pm
With need spiking, government said to okay funds for 2nd forensic medicine institute
Existing facility unable to handle volume; plans for new one predate October 7, but gained renewed urgency following massacre and ensuing forensic oversights
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A close-up of a rat on a wall. (Sophie Gordon/Flash 90)
August 20, 2023, 5:00 pm
How a rat infestation in ultra-Orthodox Bnei Brak could reawaken its democracy
Upcoming local election could be a real race for the 1st time in years, as Shas candidate Uriel Buso takes on the United Torah Judaism machine and vows to mop up sanitation issues
By Tal Schneider
Screen capture from video of National Unity MK Sharren Haskel, left, wearing her baby daughter in a sling, and Deputy Knesset Speaker of Shas, Uriel Buso, in the Knesset, June 27, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 27, 2023, 10:21 pm
Lawmaker prevented from addressing Knesset while holding her baby daughter
Deputy speaker consults legal authorities, tells National Unity’s Sharren Haskel only MKs are permitted to stand at podium; she pans decision as ‘terrible, humiliating’
By Stuart Winer
Former model Karin Bauman speaks at a Knesset Health Committee hearing on January 25, 2022. (Dani Shem-Tov/Knesset)
May 23, 2023, 4:54 pm
Former model Karin Bauman dies at 35 after years-long battle with anorexia
She was admitted to hospital at the beginning of the week with complications from pneumonia, after telling her mother a year ago she was giving up fight against disease
By ToI Staff
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