Assaf Harofeh Medical Center

Special preparations and closed wards: How Israel's hospitals prepare to receive Gaza hostages

Each participating hospital has already prepared spacious, isolated, and fully accessible rooms designed to provide both medical care and full privacy.

An Israeli military helicopter with released Israeli hostages arrive at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, November 29, 2023.
 Released Thai nationals arrive at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center after being in held in Hamas captivity, January 30, 2025

What medical condition are the Thai nationals released from Hamas captivity in?

The birth of new babies is the best answer to the horrors, midwives say

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan gestures as he speaks during a rally honoring him following his release, near the West Bank city of Jenin July 12, 2015.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader dies in Israeli custody after 86-day hunger strike


Dr. Daniel Trotzky appointed deputy director of Shamir Medical Center

Trotzky, who has managed the ER at the medical center for the past three years, will be replacing Dr. Yizhak Scharf.

 Dr. Daniel Trotzky, new deputy director of Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh)

Singing, especially in groups, promotes rehabilitation from strokes, study shows

Researchers have found that language function and the psychosocial well-being of patients and their families can be promoted by singing in a group.


Here's how social stress can affect how the immune system ages – study

This is the first time such detailed information about immune cells has been collected in a large national survey.

 A man clutches his head as he suffers from a headache and stress (Illustrative)

Islamic Jihad threatens Israel as hunger-striking detainee reported in critical condition

The detainee, Hisham Abu Hawwash, has been on a hunger strike for 138 days in protest of his administrative detention.

ISLAMIC JIHAD terrorists ride on pickup trucks during a symbolic funeral for Ramadan Shallah, a former leader of their group, in Gaza City on June 7

‘From Shamir the Torah of good medicine is coming forth’

How Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center treats patients.

Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center Director-General Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach speaks at the 7th Annual Jerusalem Post Conference in New York on April 29th, 2018.

Dr. Levtzion-Korach is first female to run a state-owned general Hospital

Perhaps it is thanks to Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach's feminine touch, but the hospital director took pains to humanize the relationship with patients.

OSNAT LEVTZION-KORACH.