Israeli health news
Israel experiences 150% more investments in mental health, $352 million in startup funding in 2025
Since October 7, Israel's mental health startup sector has been growing non-stop, showing the need for a nationwide plan to address the mental health crisis in the country.
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Where research becomes impact: Bar-Ilan University’s healthtech vision
MDA evacuates premature infants ahead of expected Iranian retaliation
Organ donation by Tzeela Gez, murdered in West Bank shooting, brings hope amid tragedy
YouTube star and health advocate Claire Wineland passes away at 21
“The quality of our life is not determined by whether we are healthy or sick but by what we have to offer to the world around us.”
Hadassah hospital to expand pediatric bone marrow transplant unit
The new expanded unit will enable Hadassah to provide life-saving treatments to 51 additional children every year.
Nurses strike in response to violence towards healthcare workers
No recommendations have been implemented in the attempts to eradicate violence. The Israeli Histadrut of nurses declared: “It is unthinkable that a nurse could go to work and end up in the E.R.”
A higher calling: How Israeli marijuana research changed the world
“The problem is that for many years, marijuana was put on the [same] scale as cocaine and morphine.”
Summer hazards for kids
Health professionals answer your questions.
Sick? Injured? Get to your health fund
The final months of 2017 were tough on the health of the people in Zion
District court mediates end to paramedical workers’ strike
During the hearing, the judge expressed solidarity with the workers’ struggle.
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Sheba Medical Center staff ’s Holocaust encounter in Poland
“We came here to say to those who were murdered here, you did not perish or sacrifice yourself in vain."
Health Ministry to give flu shots to northern schoolchildren
A special subcommittee of the Knesset Children’s Rights Committee was outraged over the ministry’s intention to discriminate against the periphery.
Pluristem’s potential new breakthrough
Haifa company weeks away from presenting clinical trial results that could ‘generate hope’ for patients suffering from untreatable vascular disease.
