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View of the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, October 8, 2024.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, April 14, 2026.

Netanyahu declared cancer-free after hiding diagnosis during Iran war

Carol Ann Schwartz, national president of Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, at the inauguration.

Netivot shows how Israel’s periphery can become its center - opinion

 View of a new Intensive care unit built in the underground parking lot of the Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital, in Jerusalem, October 25, 2023.

As Iran war broke out, United Hatzalah volunteers transferred patients to underground wards


Doctors treat hypoglycemic lung cancer patient with breast cancer drug - study

The patient with malignant lung cancer suffered from a rare complication in which the tumor secretes a protein that causes acute hypoglycemia. Israeli doctors used a breast cancer drug to treat it.

 An illustrative image of lung cancer.

Israeli surgeons save newborn baby from rare ovarian torsion

Ovarian torsion is the most common complication of an untreated ovarian cyst. It is an emergency that must be treated as quickly as possible.

 In the photo from left: Dr. Shai Porat; Dr. Dan Arbel; and Noa Ofek-Shloma’i, with the baby in her arms.

What is the pacemaker implanted in PM Netanyahu?

Micra is for patients who suffer from bradycardia – a slow heartbeat (unlike tachycardia, which is a too-rapid heartbeat) and require a single-chamber pacemaker.

Virtual image of human heart

Heatwave warning: Sunburn cases surge as dry spell persists

The physicians warned that careless exposure to the sun, especially in the coming days of the heat wave, "is a real danger.”

Woman with sunburn (illustrative).

Diving instructor saved by unique procedure

A diving instructor was saved by a unique procedure in Jerusalem after being rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal pain.

 Barak Haruvi

8 east Jerusalem residents arrested for abusing mentally ill young man

The suspects livestreamed themselves laughing at the victim and making statements like "free Palestine" and "you son of a w****."

 Police arrest 8 eastern Jerusalem residents suspected of abusing a young man.

Survivors of terror attacks reunite - opinion

Singer wants to fill the VIP room at Hadassah Medical Center with other terror survivors from that period. A celebration of survival.

 SURVIVORS FROM that period: (from L) Dr. Gabby Elbaz-Greener, Aluma Mekaitan Guertzenstein, Dvir Musai, Sarri Singer, Adi Hudja Peretz, Moshe Frej, Gila Haleli Weiss.

Israel could save cancer patients with proton beams in new breakthrough

Experimental devices operated by Hadassah experts will save people from having to travel abroad for less-efficient, less-safe, and more expensive devices.

 P-Cure system in action

Israeli security guard injured in West Bank checkpoint terror shooting

The attacker reportedly arrived at the checkpoint on foot from the West Bank carrying an M-16 rifle and then fired at security forces in the area.

Police arrive at the scene where a security guard was slightly injured in a shooting incident with an attacker who walked on foot to the Kalandiya checkpoint from the West Bank, June 24, 2023.

One killed, several injured in three-way crash on Israel's Highway 1

Another crash a few hours later ended with nine people injured as well.

 One killed, several injured in three-way crash on Israel's Highway 1 June 10, 2023.