Mother

The problem almost no one talks about after childbirth – and the new solution coming to the market

Milk leakage during the night is a familiar phenomenon for many breastfeeding women. A new Israeli initiative seeks to offer a dedicated response that will allow mothers to sleep at night.

Avivit Myasnikov and her daughter
A FLEETING moment of calm: Shiri and her husband share a quiet exchange in the kitchen with their child, one of the ‘little things’ that hold a family together between deployments.

‘It’s the little things’: Israeli mother juggles war, parenthood as her husband serves

Marina Ilyenko, a 38-year-old mother of two with lung cancer

Campaign seeks to help mother of two continue life-saving cancer treatment

Hazel Brief, at left, and Tali Drori pose together at a OneFamily retreat in early 2026.

Israeli mothers mourn together after their sons survived the battlefield but not their wounds


Olympics organizers tried to find solutions for breastfeeding moms

While, due to COVID-19 restrictions, only Games-related foreigners were initially allowed to enter Japan, organizers have now given the opportunity to athletes to have their children in Japan.

The emblem of the Tokyo Olympics is displayed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office. A pause sign. 56 days until the opening of the Olympics. on May 28, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan

What it’s really like to be a working mother

Being a working mom, which all the guilt and challenges associated, isn't easy. But Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman wouldn’t want it any other way.

DOES EVERY working mother feel they need to be at work when they’re at home, and at home when they’re at work?

A Mother’s Day ode to the unsung COVID-19 heroes - comment

Motherhood is a combination of awesome and amazing and I am going to flush myself down the toilet if another person screams my name while I am trying to pee.

A mother takes a selfie with her first-grade daughter on the first day of school

What should we be talking about this Mother's Day? - comment

A discussion of some of the issues that affect mothers in Israel today.

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.

Remembering my mother on Mother's Day

Our mother stays with us throughout our lives, even when we are mothers, or even grandmothers, ourselves.

THE WRITER'S mother: ‘She taught us honesty and decency, morality and ambition.’

Third pregnant woman dies from coronavirus this month

The 45-year-old COVID-19 patient, in her 39th week of pregnancy, was rushed to the Soroka Medical Center on Monday, while MDA paramedics administered life-saving treatment.

A pregnant woman sits on a bed holding her belly.

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.