Fertility

Health Min. reviews possible sperm donor genetic mismatch at Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv

The ministry is examining a private genetic test conducted abroad after a patient raised questions about whether the sperm donor used to conceive her child was genetically matched.

View of the Assuta medical center in Ramat haHayal, Tel Aviv. June 17, 2025.
Prof. Zeev Shoham, M.D.

AI in sperm selection: Changing the future of IVF

Prof. Natan T. Shaked of the School of Biomedical Engineering

New Tel Aviv University imaging method could improve IVF sperm selection

An illustrative image of a mouth swab for DNA testing

Oral inflammation may impair female fertility, new Israeli research shows


Israeli doctors freeze eggs of seven-year-old girl with Turner's syndrome

While the girl who was treated has Turner’s syndrome, she can have healthy children because the disease isn’t hereditary, Professor Foad Azem told Haaretz.

The process of extracting eggs in a lab in a fertility clinic.

Can worms help women pause their biological clocks? New research

A new study by Hebrew University researchers has found a potential method to slow down egg maturation.

Hebrew University researchers Yonatan Tzur and Hanna Achache at work in their lab

Couple sues fertility clinic, says their embryo implanted in wrong woman

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Successful fertility treatments on the rise in Israel - new data

Wu Tianyang, who is five month pregnant with her second child, attends a sonogram at a local hospital in Shanghai September 12, 2014.

Fertility rates

A dramatic decrease was recorded over the past 10 years in the fertility rates of Arab women, both in the country as a whole and in Jerusalem.

‘TO BE a parent in Israel is almost obligatory’: Israel’s national health insurance system offers one of the world’s most generous fertility packages.

Supreme Court: Why is serial donor's sperm banned by the Health Ministry

Ari Nagel has fathered at least 33 children in the last decade with sperm he donates free of charge.

Ari Nagel

Israeli child unearths rare 11,500-year-old fertility figurine

Itamar Berna discovered the figurine while hiking in northern Israel.

Itamar Berna and the 11,500-year-old figurine

Gay rights don’t need to come at the cost of trafficking women’s organs

In theory, the law allows women to carry someone else’s child only out of altruism. In practice, however, that is not what actually happens.

 Hundreds of members of LGBT community protest surrogacy law in Tel Aviv

Israel has highest fertility rate in OECD, report finds

Life expectancy at birth is an average 82.1 years – 80.1 years for men and 84.1 years for women, which is the ninth-highest life expectancy of the countries surveyed.

Babies (Illustrative)

Marketplace: Baby Boom

Why is Israel’s fertility rate at an all-time high?

The writer, Shlomo Maital, with his new grandson Carmel Sapir Maital