Shaare Zedek Medical Center

WATCH: IDF raids home of terrorist who carried out Sunday's car ramming attack in Gush Etzion

As part of the operation, soldiers from the Yehuda Brigade interrogated those close to the terrorist. 

IDF operates in Hebron, West Bank, June 1, 2026.
Israeli musician Jonathan Razel, October 23, 2024.

Israeli musician Yonatan Razel hospitalized, stable after suffering brain hemorrhage

Shaare Zedek’s Director-General Prof. Ofer Merin (L) and President Prof. Jonathan Halevy, previous director-general for 31 years, who solicited Koum’s donation.

WhatsApp founder Jan Koum makes largest-ever donation to Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek hospital

New Shaare Zedek Hospital medical tower planned for Jerusalem.

WhatsApp co-founder gives Shaare Zedek $200m in record Israeli hospital donation


Finance Ministry: Raise of minimum wage 'will lead to our collapse'

The long meeting discussed the effect of the minimum wage on the functioning of hospitals run by non-profit organizations.

 The Finance Ministry offices are seen on May 14, 2023

This week in Jerusalem: Complex complaints

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 Empty beds in the intensive care unit at the Coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on October 14, 2021.

This eye doctor has spent 40 years training and treating people in Jerusalem

Over the course of those nearly 40 years, Seelenfreund helped to train 80 resident eye doctors and treated thousands of Jerusalemites.

 Dr. Morty Seelenfreund, 84 From Englewood, New Jersey to Jerusalem, 1980

Hamas ambushes IDF troops, killing three, wounding others

The Hamas attacker fired the missile on the structure where the soldiers were basing themselves at the time.

 IDF soldiers carry out ground operations in the Gaza Strip.

Ministries argue over giving Israeli hospitals permission to purchase more imaging devices

Tamar Chin, health liaison in the Treasury’s budget division, replied that her ministry weighs budget versus needs and that per-capita rates were recently updated.

A radiologist examines breast X-rays after a cancer prevention medical check-up at the Ambroise Pare hospital in Marseille

This week in Jerusalem: No more tickets

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 A Jerusalem municipal inspector writes out a parking ticket.

Jerusalem doctors save IDF combat soldier by leaving shrapnel in heart

Amit Bar-Ze'ev, a combat soldier from the north, was rushed from the battlefield to SZMC about a week after the IDF moved into Gaza.

 Photo of Amit Bar-Ze’ev

Israeli medical center, investment group establish healthcare innovation hub

The Shaare Zedek Arieli Innovation Hub – whose acronym is SHAAR –will focus on transformative startups, advancing innovative technologies, and supporting pioneering research and development.

 From Left to Right: Renana Ofan, deputy director-general of Shaare Zedek Medical; Prof. Ofer Merin, SZMC director-general; Eli Renov, cofounder and CEO of Arieli; Prof. Dan Turner, vice president for Research and Development at SZMC

Shaare Zedek to add 18-story, 900-bed hospital tower to campus

The aim is to provide high-level medical care not only to Jerusalem residents, but also to Beit Shemesh, Givat Ze’ev, Betar Illit, Gush Etzion, the Binyamin region, and Modi’in.

 Shaare Zedek hospital.

For one Jewish family, education about family cancer history pays dividends

Knowledge of her family history also made all the difference for her daughter.

 A 3D rendering of cancer cells (Illustrative).