Health Ministry

Photos of Nazis left at Haifa health ministry office on Holocaust Remembrance Day

The ministry said the incident was handled without delay and did not interrupt services at the bureau. It did not say who was responsible or whether any suspects had been identified.

Photos of Nazis with red paint left at the entrance to the Haifa District Health Bureau.
ENTERING THE emergency room at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

Health Ministry investigating daycares after 15 toddlers suffer food poisoning symptoms

Smoke rises following a reported shrapnel hit on Ramat Hovav's industrial zone, April 5, 2026.

Missile shrapnel hits southern Israel following latest barrage from Iran, no injuries reported

Magen David Adom staff members work at the emergency dispatch center in Ramla, central Israel, March 6, 2026.

Health Ministry reveals wartime preparations in Eilat, Dead Sea amid tense security situation


Health Ministry urges vaccines after unvaccinated 17-year-old dies of measles

The ministry warns unvaccinated individuals and parents of infants with one dose at 6–11 months to avoid large gatherings in outbreak areas.

Cases of the measles rise in Israel.

One woman's fight for genetic testing led to an Israeli national policy shift - opinion

The Israeli Basket of Health Services now includes preimplantation genetic testing and in vitro fertilization (PGT-IVF) for individuals carrying three specific genetic markers.

Illustrative image of Invitro therapy.

Netanyahu: Operation Roaring Lion may reshape Israel’s role in the Middle East

"The defensive side is, first and foremost, the will of the people and the strength of the citizens. The strength of the citizens is also the strength of those who care for them, and that is you."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits an air force base in southern Israel on March 5, 2026.

After 144 years, Israel's Health Ministry to move from Jerusalem’s Ottoman-era health building

Its history spans the late Ottoman Empire, in which the Turks ruled Jerusalem from 1516 until 1917, to the British Mandate, to the State of Israel.

District Health Office at 86 Jaffa Road – the Ottoman-era stone façade with courtyard entrance.

Israel's healthcare system cleared hundreds of hospital beds in first 36 hours of Iran war

The move, carried out in coordination with the Home Front Command, was designed to enable the absorption of large numbers of casualties while maintaining continuity of care and protecting patients.

 Israeli soldiers and medical staff at the underground hospital at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, on September 22, 2024.

First repatriation flight returns over 100 doctors, healthcare professionals to Israel

The return of medical teams is the result of extensive efforts led by the Health Ministry's HR and operations control centers to locate, coordinate, and bring back public health system personnel.

AIRPLANES AT the Ben Gurion International airport. February 11, 2026.

Over 1,000 injured since Saturday: Health Ministry summarizes first days of Operation Roaring Lion

As of 7 a.m. on March 5, 2026, 145 people remain hospitalized or are currently being treated in emergency departments, the ministry said.

Medical team, soldiers recieve patients from Beit Shemesh attack at Shaare Zedek hospital, Jerusalem. March, 1, 2026.

Dozens of medical personnel reinforcements en route to Israel from Cyprus on a ship

It is believed that among the medical team are several senior doctors, who will reinforce medical teams in Israeli hospitals such as Sheba Medical Center and Rambam Medical Center.

Doctors at the gynecological oncology unit of Petah Tikva’s Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Branch.

Israeli truckers fear foreign workers may overtake industry if bureaucracy goes unchecked

Representatives from various levels of the logistics and delivery industry claim that Israel has a severe shortage of truck drivers, while the Transportation and Labor Ministries claim otherwise.

Truck and car on highway in front of stacks of shipping containers

Imported Palestinian produce contains dangerous levels of pesticides, Health committee warns

Procedure dictates that Palestinian produce gets tested in labs before going to market. In practice, the toxic produce is sent to Israeli shelves several days before lab results even come back.

Palestinian farmers picking cucumbers in the plains of the town of Beit Furik, east of the city of Nablus in the West Bank. on June 26, 2022.