Shaare Zedek Medical Center

WhatsApp founder Jan Koum makes largest-ever donation to Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek hospital

With an unprecedented $200 million donation from the Koum Family Foundation, SZMC will build a huge 800-bed hospitalization tower over the next six years and fill the entire space within a decade.

Shaare Zedek’s Director-General Prof. Ofer Merin (L) and President Prof. Jonathan Halevy, previous director-general for 31 years, who solicited Koum’s donation.
New Shaare Zedek Hospital medical tower planned for Jerusalem.

WhatsApp co-founder gives Shaare Zedek $200m in record Israeli hospital donation

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Jerusalem razes Elie Wiesel Plaza for NIS 73m. underground passage to Shaare Zedek

Illustrative image of a baby girl to frame story of 9-month-old who died in Shaare Zedek after choking. February, 2026.

Nine-month-old baby rushed to Shaare Zedek after choking, passes away despite resuscitation efforts


WATCH: Parking lot collapses into sinkhole at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek

Security footage shows three cars falling straight into the sinkhole. It is still unknown if there were people inside.

Shaare Zedek Hospital

Jerusalem-based Israeli hospital records 300th water birth

Aside from water births, Shaare Zedek maternity ward is one of the most active in Israel, with over 22,000 births recorded annually.

Rachel Richler Vitri and Nadav Vitri celebrate the birth of their son, the 300th baby born in a water birth at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

Prime Minister Netanyahu donates blood for victims of Mt. Meron

"Like many of the citizens of Israel, I came to donate blood as an act of identification with the wounded and as an act of identification with the terrible tragedy that happened here," he said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu donates blood at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem following the disaster that occurred at Mt. Meron.

Grapevine: Buzzing with life

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JERUSALEM’S Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Hillel's Tech Corner: Shaare Zedek breaks through healthcare barriers

Companies like Zebra Medical, Healthy.io, MobileODT and so many others have developed proprietary technology that is saving lives every single day.

JERUSALEM’S SHAARE ZEDEK Medical Center processes more than 800,000 patient visits per year.

Coronavirus: We won’t need another vaccine until 2022, expert says

Medical experts have also emphasized that not enough data is available. However, they have suggested that there might be reasons to be hopeful.

A medical worker holds a syringe with Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before administering an injection at a vaccination centre in a shopping mall in Saint Petersburg, Russia February 24, 2021.

Coronavirus: Vaccinated nursing moms likely pass antibodies on to babies

'Pregnant women who got vaccinated or recovered are also likely to give their children protection against COVID-19 through the placenta.'

Israeli women take part at a Mass Breastfeeding as they gathered at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2016, the idea  was to promote women's right to breastfeeding their babies in public, March 18, 2016. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

Shaare Zedek, Bezalel partner on solutions to coronavirus challenges

As part of the partnership, medical teams and designers will work together and create joint projects.

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Pregnant Jerusalemite recovers from COVID-19 at Shaare Zedek

The team spent their focus providing Bat Sheva with respiratory support, while carefully monitoring the status of the unborn child.

Pregnant Jerusalemite recovers from COVID-19 at Shaare Zedek

Coronavirus: Not enough ICU beds for those who need them, doctors say

“In order to open more beds for corona patients we had to cut the regular ones.”

Shaare Zedek coronavirus unit