Save a Child’s Heart

Israeli charity Save a Child's Heart marks 30 years, 9,000 children treated

SACH volunteers and supporters met last Friday with President Isaac Herzog at his official residence to celebrate the 30th anniversary of SACH’s founding.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog host children receiving lifesaving cardiac care through Save a Child’s Heart, in the President's Residence in Jerusalem, October 2026
Iran, 1987: Anat Mastor (center) poses with Jewish friends in 1987 at the tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Iran.

Meet the Jewish girl who escaped Iran and saved thousands of lives from Israel - interview

Anat Mastor, head of perfusion at Save A Child’s Heart, recalls childhood under the Islamic regime. Escaped in 1987 as a Jewish teen, she now saves children globally while hoping for Iranian freedom.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
FOUNDER OF the Genesis Prize Stan Polovets, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and Morris Kahn in 2019.

'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.

|BySTAN POLOVETS
AWO AND Sumaya from Somaliland with Israeli volunteer Ella in the middle.

Medical ties linked Israel and Somaliland years before formal recognition

For more than two decades, the Israeli NGO Save a Child’s Heart has provided cardiac care to children from Somaliland, bringing patients to Israel for surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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JUNE 10, 2019ByMEIR PANIM

Save a Child’s Heart performs its 5,000th life-saving surgery

The Israeli NGO has treated children from 59 countries, including more than 2,500 Palestinian patients.

MAY 24, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Iraqi child receives emergency treatment at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon