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Illustrative: A baby receives a routine vaccine. (naumoid; iStock by Getty Images)
November 25, 2025, 4:57 pm
Amid measles outbreak, study finds skepticism of routine vaccines soared during COVID
Bar-Ilan researcher finds that 6.6% of parents who vaccinated an older child before the pandemic chose not to vaccinate a younger child; ‘enough to trigger’ current outbreak
By Diana Bletter
Yael Eckstein holding hands of an elderly woman, Netta, in Israel. (Credit: Olivier Fitoussi)
October 20, 2025, 2:00 pm
Israelis’ life expectancy rises to 83.8, making it 4th among OECD countries
Report shows dramatic rise in life expectancy of both men and women from 2022 to 2023, despite Israel investing only 7.6% of its GDP in health
By Diana Bletter
Illustration: A baby receives the measles vaccine on September 10, 2025, in Seattle, Washington. (AP/Lindsey Wasson)
September 25, 2025, 2:34 pm
Three Jerusalem children die of measles this week as outbreak continues
All five fatalities from disease in recent months are under 2.5 years old; they are the first measles deaths in Israel since 2018-2019 outbreak
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Dan Peer, left, with Dr. Inbal Hazan-Halefy and PhD student Shani Benarroch of Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
July 13, 2025, 3:10 pm
In first, Israeli researchers develop mRNA jab against antibiotic-resistant bacterium
Scientists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Biological Research say their vaccine uses lipid nanoparticles and shows 100% protection in animal models
By Diana Bletter
MIT professor Retsef Levi lectures on the effects of generative AI on commerce at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, December 18, 2023. (YouTube screenshot)
June 13, 2025, 7:29 pm
RFK appoints anti-mRNA technology Israeli MIT professor to vaccine advisory panel
Medical leaders decry new appointees to CDC immunization committee including Retsef Levi, who says most COVID-19 vaccines cause ‘unprecedented harm,’ including deaths of children
By Grace Gilson
In an attempt to battle the measles outbreak, some countries in Europe have enacted laws making vaccinating children mandatory. (Illustrative. Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 21, 2025, 9:54 am
Case of measles found in Tel Aviv area as virus resurges globally
Individual arrived in Israel on a flight from London on Friday, spent time in Herzliya and near Tel Aviv University; ministry recommends checking vaccine status
By ToI Staff
Health department staff members enter the Andrews County Health Department measles clinic carrying doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice)
April 20, 2025, 5:35 am
As measles outbreak grows, US has 800 cases and outbreaks in several states
With childhood vaccination rates declining after the pandemic, a disease the country eliminated in 2000 is making a comeback
By Devi Shastri
This image provided by the Wolf Foundation shows Pamela Björkman of the California Institute of Technology, who won this year's prestigious Wolf Award for her research into treating coronavirus and HIV. (Wolf Foundation via AP)
March 11, 2025, 4:22 am
US biochemist researching treatment of HIV and coronaviruses wins Israel’s Wolf Prize
Prestigious award in arts and sciences also goes to Chinese architect and American, British and German researchers
By AP
A Palestinian man holds a baby as a medic administers a polio vaccine at a camp for displaced people in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on February 23, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
February 27, 2025, 4:43 pm
Gaza polio vaccination drive reached 600,000 children in five days, WHO says
UN health agency chief says ceasefire enabled even more children to be reached than in previous rounds, including those who may have been missed due to security issues
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinian medics administer polio vaccines to children at the al-Daraj neighborhood clinic in Gaza City on September 10, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
February 22, 2025, 7:15 pm
Third round of polio vaccinations begins in Gaza amid ceasefire
Highly contagious disease detected in coastal enclave’s sewage waters; WHO — with assistance from UNRWA — plans to vaccinate 591,000 children by Feb. 26
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: View of the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on August 17, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 25, 2024, 8:32 pm
Unvaccinated 17-year-old from Jerusalem area contracts polio, condition unspecified
Rare infection comes after mass vaccination campaign in wartorn Gaza, where polio was detected over the summer; Israel has seen a handful of cases in last decade
By ToI Staff
Palestinian boy Abdel Rahman Abu al-Jedian who contracted polio a month ago, sleeps surrounded by family members in their displacement tent in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 27, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
August 29, 2024, 11:48 pm
Behind Gaza polio case, experts see ‘horrible’ WHO decision fueling outbreaks worldwide
UN body removed strain from oral prophylactic in 2016, leaving children vulnerable to vaccine-derived viruses circulating silently, with over 3,300 paralyzed by disease since
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative image: A baby receives a vaccine (Marina Demidiuk via iStock by Getty Images)
August 6, 2024, 10:53 am
Researcher warns of whooping cough spike as disease spreads throughout Israel
Infectious disease expert says Israel is in the middle of an outbreak that occurs every four years; Health Ministry urges vaccination for pregnant women to lessen spread
By Diana Bletter
An Israeli health worker prepares a coronavirus vaccine shot against COVID-19, at a health clinic in Katzrin, on November 16, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
May 21, 2024, 8:04 pm
Ombudsman: Health Ministry didn’t check 82% of reports on COVID vaccine side effects
Comptroller says ministry failed to sufficiently combat vaccine misinformation during pandemic, made decisions on vaccine’s safety based on incomplete data
By ToI Staff
A woman suffering from the flu (monstArrr_ via iStock by Getty Images)
January 4, 2024, 6:19 pm
Winter arrived late this year, so Israel only now seeing surge in COVID and flu
With hospital beds filled with the war wounded, the healthcare system urges people to get vaccinated while there is still time to keep themselves and others healthy
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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