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.

Mental health [illustrative]
HealthTech Valley is on the grounds of Bar-Ilan University, a joint effort by Bar-Ilan and Sheba

Where research becomes impact: Bar-Ilan University’s healthtech vision

 Illustrative photo of a premature birth

MDA evacuates premature infants ahead of expected Iranian retaliation

 Tzeela Gez, the pregnant woman wounded in a terror attack and succumbed to her wounds, May 15, 2025.

Organ donation by Tzeela Gez, murdered in West Bank shooting, brings hope amid tragedy


Israeli-American study: Obese bariatric surgery patients live longer

The rate of death in obese individuals in the study who did not have surgery was 2.3% compared to 1.3% for those who had surgery

BMI chart.

The number of rabid animals rose 250% last year, mostly from abroad

The data were based on actual bodies of animals examined in Agriculture Ministry labs and suspected of being infected with rabies.

A jackal stands in a field near Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, just outside the southern Gaza Strip.

Why is Israel’s opioid death rate so much lower than in the U.S.?

Since the late 1990s, more than 200,000 Americans have died as a result of using opioids.

A needle used for shooting heroin and other opioids and an empty bag litter the ground in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. October 26, 2017.

Israeli researchers identify symptoms of progressive blindness

Five Israelis diagnosed with blindness disease once seen only in lab mice.

A researcher uses a microscope

Popular baby cream taken off market

Consumers are asked to return it to the store.

Illustrative image of a newborn baby

Psychiatrists told not to cooperate with Health Min. over new guidelines

There's a big debate about isolating and restraining psychiatric patients.

A team of doctors discuss mental health (Illustrative)

135 medical technologies costing NIS 460m. added to health basket

NIS 40m. to include children up to 16 in Health Ministry’s basic dental care program

Assuta Ashdod University Hospital

How reliable is your brain, really?

Most people assume that their brains are a stable and reliable tool that works consistently. But amazingly, our brain responses are very different from those of other people.

An image of the human brain

Report: Israel has a long way to go to reduce health-reducing environmental factors

Environmental health directly affects human health, with almost a quarter of all diseases attributed to environmental factors, killing an estimated 12.6 million people around the world annually.

A worried mother and her child talking to a doctor. (Illustrative)

Israeli first: balloons and glue used to cure AVM in the brain

The new method utilized at Shaare Zedek involves the closure of veins through the use of a tiny balloon introduced on the tip of a tiny catheter.

An image of the human brain