Israeli health care

The case for Israel to subsidize menstrual products - opinion

Israel, despite having a semi-socialist medical system, not only keeps the tax but, in a way, increases it. Shelf prices are massively inflated compared to other countries.

An illustrative image of menstrual care products
Minister of Health Haim Katz arrives to a press conference announcing the health basket.

Health minister’s intervention highlights Israel’s protekzia problem, healthcare gaps - editorial

TODAY, 25% of the country’s working physicians are Arab-Israeli.

Medical coexistence: Arab Israeli doctors show the cost of Israel’s medical school shortage

A medical operations room provides services in a Jerusalem hotel for those evacuated from their homes in Beit Shemesh following an Iranian missile strike.

Israel built a binational healthcare system but never learned how to manage it - opinion


Health Ministry warns public not to go to unlicensed hyperbaric oxygen chambers

Treatment in unlicensed chambers may harm the health of the patients and endanger their lives, the ministry said.

 Jennifer Johnson tries out a portable hyperbaric oxygen chamber at the Super Show, the sporting goods industry's largest trade show at the World Congress Center in Atlanta.

Hostages given tranquilizers to 'look happy' upon release from captivity

Relatives of abductees ask: "Why isn't an official report issued on the health condition of the abductees?"

 with them again. Ohad Monder and his family in the hospital after he was released from Hamas

Israeli medical journal warns: Google is not a reliable source of medical advice - study

Medical staff are concerned that Internet sources of medical information are unreliable and could lead to erroneous decisions by patients.

 A computer user poses in front of a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Brussels May 30, 2014.

Shortage of rehab beds as hospitals care for war wounded

With large numbers of war wounded, there is a noticeable shortage of rehabilitation beds, especially in Jerusalem and the North.

Medics wheel into the emergency room wounded Israeli men from the shooting attack in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, at the Hadassa Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, on October 29, 2022.

Israeli Health Ministry professional chosen for WHO Executive Committee

The Head of the Health Ministry’s International Relations Division has been elected to the World Health Organization’s prestigious Executive Committee.

Dr. Asher Shalmon

Taub Center says hospitals and staff have performed beyond expectations since war began

Although the system seems stretched to its limit even in normal times, the complex system has surpassed expectations to provide care for the thousands of wounded since the war broke out.

 Israelis injured when rockets fired from Lebanon, into Israel, hit the Northern city of Metula, injurying 3, brought to the Ziv hospital in Tzfat, October 17, 2023.

A breath of fresh air, but new government plan to curb smoking doen't go far enough - editorial

Smoking among teenagers is on the rise, having increased to 23.6% in 2021. The rest of the world is traveling in the opposite direction.

Deep breaths: Smoking pollution in Tel Aviv

Israel's Health Ministry updates tactics to fight smoking

After decades of a poor record of fighting smoking, the Health Ministry issues an "action plan" and requests public comments.


Prestigious UK medical journal writes against Israel's judicial reform

A leading medical journal in Britain has published two unprecedented articles on Israeli doctors’ anxiety over judicial overhaul.

 Medical staff protest lack of funding which has forced hospitals into "emergency mode," August 29, 2021

Gynecologist sexually assaults patients, gets released after less than a year

The decision to release Shechter early means that he will be released from prison after less than a year.

 Doctor writing notes during a session with a patient.