Shaare Zedek Medical Center

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.

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.
New Shaare Zedek Hospital medical tower planned for Jerusalem.

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

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Jerusalem razes Elie Wiesel Plaza for NIS 73m. underground passage to Shaare Zedek

Illustrative image of a baby girl to frame story of 9-month-old who died in Shaare Zedek after choking. February, 2026.

Nine-month-old baby rushed to Shaare Zedek after choking, passes away despite resuscitation efforts


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.

 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.

 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.

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

 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.

 TEDDY KOLLEK with puppets at the Train Station in Liberty Bell Park.

Grapevine: Measuring justice

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

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.

 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.

 The site of a shooting attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on November 21, 2021.

This week in Jerusalem: Biggest trauma

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 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.

Pregnant woman receives a vaccine in the US