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. 

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
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

He began his musical career as a teenager in a family band with his siblings. After enlisting in the IDF as an outstanding musician, he served as an arranger in a military ensemble.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

With an unprecedented $200 million donation from the Koum Family Foundation, SZMC will build a huge 800-bed hospitalization tower over the next six years and fill the entire space within a decade.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
New Shaare Zedek Hospital medical tower planned for Jerusalem.

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

The donation will fund the construction of a new medical tower at the hospital and will lead to the official renaming of the institution as Koum Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Woman arrested for intentionally disconnecting two-month-old baby's feeding tube

The baby was not harmed, but the woman was sent to house arrest while the incident is investigated.

APRIL 10, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Surgeons implant printed earlobe in a work-accident victim

Plastic surgeons at a Jerusalem hospital used advanced tech to sculpt and implant a new earlobe for a 55-year-old man.

APRIL 3, 2022ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

World’s thinnest 3D printed cornea implanted in Jerusalem

This is the breakthrough that Ophthalmologists at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center have achieved using the thinnest 3D cornea.

MARCH 22, 2022ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Thinnest artificial cornea in the world

President Herzog gives Purim gifts to kids in hospital

President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal dressed up as doctors and prescribed "medicine" to children in Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

MARCH 15, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal visit children in Shaare Zedek Medical Center an give them gifts for Purim.

Tahini deadly? A Jerusalem tourist's terrifying encounter with the condiment

An Austrian tourist discovered he is allergic to tahini after encountering it in Israel for the first time.

FEBRUARY 21, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Hummus dish with tahini

COVID-19 in Israel: 22,360 new cases, R rate in decline

New cases continue to drop * R rate drops to 0.74

FEBRUARY 11, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Palestinian student receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, in Dura, in the West Bank city of Hebron, January 24, 2022.

Grapevine: Talking Teddy Kollek

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JANUARY 27, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
TEDDY KOLLEK with puppets at the Train Station in Liberty Bell Park.

Grapevine: Measuring justice

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

DECEMBER 29, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Shimon Shetreet

Yeshiva student wounded in Hamas shooting leaves hospital

Aaron Yehuda Imergreen was in serious condition after being wounded in the Hamas shooting in the Old City of Jerusalem, but has now been transferred to Sheba Medical Center for rehabilitation.

DECEMBER 19, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The site of a shooting attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on November 21, 2021.

Health of yeshiva student wounded in Old City Hamas shooting improves

The attack wounded four people and saw one fatality, 26-year-old South African oleh Eli Kay.

NOVEMBER 23, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The site of a shooting attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on November 21, 2021.