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Israeli forces demolish a network of tunnels under and around Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City, Dec. 27, 2023. Screenshot via IDF Spokesperson.

Israel destroys tunnel network under Gaza hospital, girls school

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Israeli soldiers destroyed a network of tunnels underneath and around a hospital and an adjacent girls school in Gaza City, the Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday night. The three shafts, dozens of meters deep, were...
Workers at the Western Galliee Medical Center in Nahariya prepare a protected underground area to receive patients, on Oct. 24, 2023. Photo by Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS.

Israeli hospitals go underground amid Gaza war

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With a ground war in Gaza and escalation of rocket fire imminent, Israeli hospitals are going underground. The Galilee Medical Center in the northern city of Nahariya has moved its 700 beds below ground and...
Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Aug. 17, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Hackers publish Israeli hospital records after cyberattack

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A ransomware hacker group on Wednesday published patient data stolen from Israel's Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center. The “Ragnar Locker” group followed through on a threat to release the sensitive information gathered in the cyberattack on the...
A mezuzah parchment with verses from the Shema prayer. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Mezuzah scroll in Nahariya hospital replaced with antisemitic note

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During a routine inspection of a mezuzah at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, hospital personnel discovered that sacred parchment had been stolen and replaced with an antisemitic note. "All Jews are liars and have no religion; they...
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Cyberattack shuts down Bnei Brak hospital’s computers

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Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak was hit by a cyberattack on Monday night, Israel’s Health Ministry announced on Tuesday morning. The hospital’s administrative computers were shut down in what was described as...
The Memorial Sloan Kettering Josie Robertson Surgery Center in New York. Credit: Google Street View screenshot.

‘Pioneer’ anesthesiologist Rebecca Twersky dies at 67

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Dr. Rebecca Twersky, former chief of anesthesia at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Josie Robertson Surgery Center, died in mid-May at 67. “In addition to her many professional accomplishments, Dr. Twersky was well known...
Baking shmurah matzah in Jerusalem for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, April 11, 2022. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

New law allows Israeli hospitals to ban chametz during Passover

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The Knesset plenum on Tuesday passed into law a bill to allow hospitals to ban chametz, or leavened foods, during the weeklong Passover holiday that begins on the evening of April 5. Forty-eight Knesset members voted...
Sheba Medical Center dietitians Meital Benjamin (left) and Ayelet Gur-Arie deliver supplements to patients blended into ice-cream. Credit: Courtesy.

A healthy scoop: Sheba medical dieticians turn supplements into sweets

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Dieticians at Sheba Medical Center in Israel have sweetened the offerings for some of their older patients who require food supplements. At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when no visitors were allowed in the...
A grandfather and his family in the new gift room at Sheba Medical Center, June 2021. Credit: Courtesy.

Sheba Medical Center opens gift room for long-term elderly patients

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Sheba Medical Center has inaugurated Israel’s first hospital gift room exclusively for elderly patients, located in the Geriatric Division of Sheba’s Rehabilitation Hospital. Intended for geriatric patients who are hospitalized long-term or whose birthday occurs...

For third year in row, Sheba Medical Center ranks as one of world’s ‘Top...

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For the third consecutive year, Newsweek magazine has ranked Sheba Medical Center among the “Top 10 Best Hospitals in the World,” placing it at #10 in 2021. The magazine’s annual “World’s Best Hospitals” survey, which debuted on the Newsweek.com site on...