Hospital

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.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
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

The donation will fund the construction of a new medical tower at the hospital and will lead to the official renaming of the institution as Koum Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
People stand near a monster truck after a driver lost control of the vehicle and plowed into spectators, killing people and injuring others, in Popayan, Cauca province, Colombia, May 3, 2026.

At least two killed, 37 injured after monster truck crashes into crowd in Popayan, Colombia

Videos on social media showed a large monster truck clearing an obstacle but failing to brake in time, causing the vehicle to veer off to the side and plow into spectators.

|ByREUTERS, MIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Palestinian medical workers receive Pfizer-BioNTecha vaccine against the Coronavirus at the Palestinian Medical center in the West Bank city of Dura on March 21, 2021.

West Bank hospitals in crisis as PA reported pays medical staff only fraction of wage for April

Palestinian medical staff in the West Bank are set to strike over wage cuts, staff shortages, and a mounting healthcare crisis that threatens patient care and medical services.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Health ministry survey determines: This is the hospital Israelis are most satisfied with

The Soroka Medical Center, which was severely damaged by an Iranian missile, surpasses Sheba and Ichilov and leads the Health Ministry survey with 85% patient satisfaction.

NOVEMBER 10, 2025ByAVIHAI CHIIM
The Soroka Medical Center leads with an 85% satisfaction rate

Former IDF top lawyer Tomer-Yerushalmi rushed to hospital after release to house arrest

"She tried to commit suicide; her life is not rosy," Police Commissioner Daniel Levy said. • N12 News reported that Tomer-Yerushalmi tried to swallow around 20 sleeping pills.

NOVEMBER 9, 2025ByPESACH BENSON/TPS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
THEN-MILITARY advocate-general Maj.-Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi attends a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman last year. Tomer-Yerushalmi and her entire office covered up their own crimes, the writer charges.

Satellite images reveal suspected mass graves near mosque, children’s hospital in Sudan’s El-Fasher

Evidence of mass burials surfaces in Sudan’s Darfur, with satellite images showing trenches dug near sites linked to RSF killings.

NOVEMBER 7, 2025ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF
Displaced Sudanese children who fled with their families during violence in al-Fashir, sit inside a camp shelter, amid ongoing clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan November 3, 2025.

How Liv Hospital is redefining personalized stem cell therapy in Türkiye

NOVEMBER 6, 2025ByDAVID RABINOWICZ
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Smaller hospitals beat out larger ones in patient satisfaction, Health Ministry shows - survey

Health Ministry survey shows small community hospitals leading, big centers trailing as patients praise staff and fault crowded, noisy wards.

NOVEMBER 4, 2025ByDR. ITAY GAL
Laniado Medical Center

Workers injured in partial collapse of medieval tower near Rome's Colosseum

The 29-meter Torre dei Conti, which suffered two collapses, stands at 29 meters tall.

NOVEMBER 3, 2025ByREUTERS
A combination picture shows a firefighter throwing a piece of rubble (top), dust rising as a part of the Torre dei Conti tower collapses (middle), and firefighters covered in dust (bottom), after parts of the Torre dei Conti tower collapsed, in Rome, Italy, November 3, 2025.

A new hope for thousands: Kaplan Medical Center performs first donor-free artificial cornea implant

The procedure saw the implantation of the innovative "EndoArt" device in a patient who had previously experienced three unsuccessful donor cornea transplants.

NOVEMBER 3, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Kaplan Medical Center

Alon Ohel undergoes eye and shoulder surgeries at Beilinson Hospital

Medical teams at Beilinson emphasized that Ohel’s case is one of the most complex they have treated in recent years.

NOVEMBER 3, 2025ByDR. ITAY GAL
Freed hostage Alon Ohel arrives to his home in Moshav Lavon, northern Israel, October 24, 2025.

Preparing for emergency: Tel Aviv hospital undergoing massive renovation for underground unit

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley’s trust made the donation to support the construction of an advanced underground emergency hospital within the new Alrov Rehabilitation Tower.

NOVEMBER 1, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Design and renderings of the emergency hospital: Arad Sharon, Sharon Gur Ze’ev.

What awaits Israel's freed hostages on the long journey to recovery? - opinion

The hostages face a long rehabilitation journey in which nutritional rehabilitation is a vital component.

OCTOBER 25, 2025ByPAULA HIZMI
THE WRITER, head of the Nutrition and Dietetics Unit: ‘We must give the returnees the time and space they need to reintegrate into daily life in the best possible way,’ she says.