Mother

2025’s ‘Persons of the Year’: Israeli mothers - opinion

Beyond the statistics, Israeli mothers’ everyday poetry and superhuman courage perpetually inspire.

 SERENA KALISH (pictured) gave birth to her fourth child during a weekend filled with missile-warning sirens and uncertainty. The night of her delivery, sirens rang through the halls of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center as Iranian missiles were intercepted overhead.
A pregnant woman checks her blood sugar levels; illustrative.

Scientists find hidden placental changes linked to gestational diabetes

THE WRITER stands between survivors Maya (right) and Amit. Share the stories of Kfar Aza’s mothers, the writer urges.

Miracles from Kfar Aza: The mothers the world must not forget - opinion

 From the movie, 'Once Upon My Mother'

New French film reimagines the Jewish mother archetype through a Moroccan Mizrahi lens - review


Naturally conceived quadruplets born in Israel in 1/700,000 chance

Multiple births are usually the result of fertility treatments • "Every time they brought me a baby outside, and all I could think of was 'thank God that yet another baby is okay,'" their father said

Hussan Yukov and Yemin Gavertansa's  Quadruplets born at Kaplan Medical Center

Working parents cannot survive the continued COVID-19 lockdown - comment

After we finish the homework and send it to the teacher, who responds with a “kol hakavod” and hearts and rainbows and unicorns. I want to respond with a different emoji.

Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman and her 5 children

WHO reverses stance on pregnant women receiving COVID-19 vaccine

Israel has included pregnant women among those getting priority access to COVID-19 vaccines.

The COVID-19 vaccine given to medical staff at Ichilov Hospital on December 20.

MDA medic instructs husband through baby's delivery over the phone

"It was a special moment, but I hope it's a once in a lifetime experience," the new father said.

The Hodera family.

Israeli woman gives birth to twins in bathroom overnight

"It was an interesting experience," the new mother said.

Mother of the twins Natalia Birkov

Imeinu Doulas: Providing spiritual support to prospective, new Jewish mothers

Imeinu Doulas began modestly with a team of Jewish doulas, companions who are trained to care for and offer support to women in childbirth.

Pregnant woman (Illustrative)

Finance Ministry, National Insurance solve maternity benefit crisis

Women who had been unemployed or on unpaid leave for extended periods of time will now be eligible for maternity benefits for babies born between January 1 and June 30 of this year.

Maternity ward illustrative

Medical first in Tiberias: Docs save uterus so woman can have more babies

"Since this was a young woman, our goal was to allow her to return to normal functioning while preserving her ability to become pregnant in the future."

Maj. (Dr.) Ted Ferguson performs reconstructive surgery. Used for illustrative purposes

With opening of new ward, 90% of Ichilov maternity ward rooms are private

Each private room also includes a chair for nursing, a private bathroom and shower, a diaper changing table, a television and free Wi-Fi.

A pirvate room in Lis Maternity Hospital's new ward

BGU research claims increased insomnia, anxiety in mothers amid COVID-19

What they found was that many mothers are reporting higher levels of anxiety and increased episodes of insomnia as a direct result of the isolated lifestyle change.

A girl hugs her mother before entering her elementary school in Sderot as it reopens following the ease of restrictions preventing the spread of the coronavirus disease.