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

This week in Jerusalem: Biggest trauma

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021ByPEGGY CIDOR
GIVE A warm welcome to the 243 babies born over the chag in Jerusalem’s largest hospitals.

Is the 3rd coronavirus vaccine safe for pregnant women? Yes, say experts

Research on first and second shots by Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek shows no adverse effect on mothers, babies.

AUGUST 25, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Pregnant woman receives a vaccine in the US

7 Israeli hospitals to switch to emergency mode due to financial crisis

Beginning Wednesday, Jerusalem’s Hadassah and other facilities will only accept patients in need of life-saving treatments.

AUGUST 24, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Shaare Zedek hospital.

Grapevine: New leadership

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 12, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Isaac Herzog, a man with much political experience.

Meet the doctor bringing hope to the world of medicine

Growing up, Prof. Ben Corn dreamt of finding a cure for the prostate cancer that killed his father.

AUGUST 12, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
PROF. BEN CORN: ‘We must incorporate the vision of a more holistic approach to cancer care.’

Couple who lost child in Ofra Junction attack give birth to baby boy

The Ish-Rans, who lost their child in a terrorist attack, returned to Shaare Zedek this week to welcome a new baby.

AUGUST 11, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Medical staff from the maternity and trauma teams at Shaare Zedek Medical Center congratulate the Ish-Rans upon the birth of their new son.

COVID antibodies start to decline in kids after only 4 months – study

According to researchers, these findings may indicate that children have a weaker long-term immune response to COVID-19.

AUGUST 9, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
This undated transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus parti

20 years later, Sbarro attack victims dedicate Shaare Zedek delivery room

Meir Schijveschuurder who experienced the attack as a 17 year old, expressed that the choice to dedicate a delivery room reflected “circle of life."

AUGUST 4, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Siblings Chaya and Meir Schijveschuurder meet with medical personnel who treated them in the wake of Sbarro terror attack 20 years ago.

Cardiology breakthrough at Shaare Zedek: Heart defect repaired with stitch

In a first for Israeli medicine, doctors repaired a heart defect with a stitch and no implant.

JULY 24, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A medical team that repaired a heart defect in a 38-year-old woman at Shaare Zedek Medical Center without implanting a foreign object in her body.

Shaare Zedek performs life saving surgery on 4-year-old boy

The boy, Omran, was hit by a car driving over 130 kilometers an hour and as a result, developed a rare and complex spinal fracture.

JULY 23, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Omran laying in the hospital