Save a Child’s Heart

'When I grow up, I want to be like you': remembering Morris Kahn's most productive years - opinion

Founder of the Genesis Prize Stan Polovets on why your seventies and eighties – and even nineties – can be your most impactful years.

FOUNDER OF the Genesis Prize Stan Polovets, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and Morris Kahn in 2019.
AWO AND Sumaya from Somaliland with Israeli volunteer Ella in the middle.

Medical ties linked Israel and Somaliland years before formal recognition

Thirteen pediatric and heart patients from Zambia are spending Christmas in Israel as part of SACH’s humanitarian medical program, which provides free cardiac surgery to children from developing countries.

Zambian children celebrate Christmas in Israel after Save a Child's Heart surgeries

 Heart attack (Illustrative).

More people are at risk of heart failure worldwide, researchers say


Israeli organizations to provide South Sudanese children with life-saving heart surgery

The children are being cared for in partnership with Israeli humanitarian aid organizations “Save a Child’s Heart” and “IsraAID."

 The children – Gai, 8, Habiba, 6, Phillip, 5, and Joel, 5 – arrived in Israel and will have surgery on December 21st.

Save a Child's Heart team attends wedding of girl they saved 15 years ago

As a show of gratitude for giving her a normal life, Sabrina invited the SACH team who saved her 15 years ago to her wedding in Zanzibar this week.

The Save a Child's Heart team attends the wedding of a woman in Zanzibar who they saved 15 years ago

This surgeon has helped children get heart surgery in Israel for decades

No. 30 on The Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2022: Save a Child's Heart president Prof. Arie Schachner.

 Prof. Arie Schachner, president of Save a Child's Heart.

Israel is 'tolerant, peace-loving, Western democracy' - Sylvan Adams

“I am not trying to convince the haters and the antisemites,” said Adams. “I am speaking to the apolitical silent majority, in their living rooms and on their mobile phones.”

 Sylvan Adams at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, September 12, 2022

Professor Nachman Ash celebrates 26 years of Save a Child's Heart

Ash met the medical professionals who were training to do work for SACH in Zambia, Ethiopia, the Palestinian Authority and Gaza.

 Prof. Nachman Ash celebrates the 26th anniversary of Save a Child's Heart.

New pediatric IC unit unveiled at Wolfson Medical Center

The newly constructed unit will be equipped with the "highest quality" intensive care facilities and "state-of-the-art" technology.

 The new pediatric intensive care unit at Wolfson Medical Center

Tanzanian teen gets life-saving surgery in Israel thanks to Bat Mitzvah girl

Amelie Anderson first became engaged with SACH, which has saved at least 6,000 pediatric heart care patients, in October 2020 when she embarked on her first challenge.

Amelie Anderson, 12, raised funds for Salma, 15, to receive life-saving heart surgery in Israel

Frej visits Kosovar children in Israel getting life-saving treatment

The two children, Anisa and Florim, were both born with a congenital heart disease that can't be treated in Kosovo.

 Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej meeting Anisa and Florim, two children who were brought from Kosovo to Israel by Save a Child's Heart to undergo life-saving cardiac care at Wolfson Hospital.

Children saved by Israeli doctors dress up as them for Purim

The big doctors played along with the tiny doctors and allowed them to use stethoscopes in the hospital to check their hearts.

 the children of the Save a Child's Heart (SACH) dressed up as the doctors who saved their lives

Girl from Myanmar undergoes cardiac surgery in Israel

Eight-year-old Hannah had to be granted a special permit to fly to Israel for treatment because of civil war in Myanmar.

 Hannah with Morris Kahn.

From Myanmar to Israel: Doctors wish child 'Merry Christmas'

Physicians from three religious backgrounds came together to wish little Hannah, brought to Israel from Myanmar by Save a Child's Heart, a “Merry Christmas.”

 Physicians from three religious backgrounds came together to wish little Hannah a “Merry Christmas” at the Sylvan Adams Childress Hospital in Holon.