Senior citizen

Azrieli Palace Tel Aviv marks 20 years of urban senior living

The senior residence in the Weizmann Center has become home to residents who want community, culture, security, and immediate access to the city’s entertainment hubs.

Palace Tel Aviv
Elderly individuals report confusion, memory decline, difficulty with orientation and sometimes even delirium, a state of acute sudden confusion

Elder fraud cases jump 61% in Israel as abuse reports rise, Welfare Ministry says

An elderly couple

During wars and crises in the world: The worrying statistic about those aged 60+ is revealed

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu greets Yehuda Dua (left) and Uri Kellner.

Grapevine, April 17, 2026: Resilience – a Jewish character trait


Coronavirus crisis continues to severely impact Israeli seniors

Over 47% of the respondents reported a poor mental state, including loneliness, depression and even feelings that "in the current situation, life has no meaning."

Two elderly women sit on a bench on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on October 26, 2020.

Coronavirus vaccines: Which Israelis will be jabbed first?

Medical personnel top the list, while children will be ineligible for inoculation

Hadassah-University Medical Center's Prof. Yossi Karko (left) and Hannah Drori, chief of the hospital’s clinical research center, administer Brilife vaccine to a volunteer

Senior citizens learn how to use social media platforms amid pandemic

They’re also discovered that it’s a lot of fun sharing what they’ve found on the Internet.

RICHARD BRANSON poses on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last year.

300 seniors in capital become homeless

For more than six years, since it became clear to all authorities involved that the seniors’ housing solution at the Diplomat Hotel was reaching its end, meeting followed meeting with no solution.

AN ELDERLY Russian immigrant checks her mail at the Diplomat Hotel in Jerusalem

When I’m 64: How to live, how to die.

Is there a course of action or proactive measure to prevent this two-sided misery?

GROWING UP, the thought of being in our 60s was as imaginable as say, mobile phones and the Internet.

Coronavirus: Social distancing linked to psychiatric disorders in seniors

The study, published in the American Journal of Geriatic Psychiatry, linked social distancing and isolation with elevated anxiety, depression and even trauma in older adults.

A senior citizen wearing a Watcher, an AI-based wrist-band that monitors healthcare risks.

Thinking about age and growing old

The quickest and most inexpensive facelift is just to smile

HERE ARE little children who may be fascinated by our tales of long ago.

Blocked out of clubs and theaters, performers turn to senior homes

“It is a win-win situation, for the artists and for us too."

MOSHE BEKER performs for residents at the Meditteranean Towers in Savyon.

70-year-old Palestinian woman dies from fire at Shuafat refugee camp

Three others were injured by the flames and smoke in the apartment, and were also evacuated to Hadassah Hospital in light condition.

A narrow alleyway inside Shuafat Refugee Camp

New coronavirus case emerges at Beersheba nursing home

As the number of active cases continues to decline overall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is set to reopen on Sunday.

A nursing home worker and a medic put on personal protective equipment while preparing to transport a patient into an ambulance at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, the long-term care facility linked to several confirmed coronavirus cases in the state, in Kirkland, Washington, US.