By 2121, WIZO hopes gender disparity is no longer an issue
“If we do our job correctly, [by 2121], it should not be an issue anymore – not race, not religion, not gender,” said World WIZO (Woman’s International Zionist Organization) CEO Anita Friedman. Friedman said that her organization, which was established 101 years ago, has been rolling out groundbreaking projects and programs to bring out the […]
Hadassah Increases Capacity for Covid-19 Patients Despite Nearby Fires
While forest fires raged in areas close to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, its medical teams were ramping up new COVID-19 units. Fortunately, Hadassah Ein Kerem has not had to evacuate, though unpredictable winds keep firefighters on high alert as they continually coordinate with hospital administrators. In this, Israel’s fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Health Ministry estimates that […]
Forest Fires Near Hadassah Hospital
Hadassah, Ein Kerem announcement, given forest fires: Evacuate cars parked in lower level parking lots immediately. As of now, no patients or visitors are being evacuated. All firefighters in the country have been called up, including reservists. The firefighters have asked the government to request international help to put out the fire. Prof. Yoram Weiss […]
Prof. Yoram Weiss of Hadassah Hospital Discusses the COVID-19 Delta Variant
Prof. Yoram Weiss of Hadassah Hospital Discusses the COVID-19 Delta Variant
Prof. Yoram Weiss of Hadassah Hospital was recently quoted in the Washington Post about the COVID-19 Delta variant and how even though infection rates in Israel are increasing, very few of them are becoming seriously ill.
80 dormitory students at CHW Hadassim Children and Youth Village celebrated
Prof Ze’ev Twito, Director of CHW Hadassim, spoke to the challenges that the Youth Village faced in the past year, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and the damage sustained to two family units caused by incoming rocket fire during the recent security crisis. For the dormitory students at CHW Hadassim, it is more than a school- […]
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Hadassah Hospital Highlights Jewish-Arab Cooperation Following Mixed City Riots
HADASSAH HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS JEWISH-ARAB COOPERATION FOLLOWING MIXED CITY RIOTS
CHW Hadassim Children and Youth Village
Report from Zeev Twito, director of CHW HADASSIM CHILDREN AND YOUTH VILLAGE, on the Na’aleh students and how they and the village are coping during the current security crisis. Zeev Twito, director of the CHW Hadassim Children and Youth Village, told us how the dormitory students from disadvantaged Israeli families and from the Na’aleh Program are […]
The rocket destroyed the children’s bedroom and play area, destroying all their toys and clothes.
Yesterday, a rocket launched from Gaza made a direct hit on the modest home of an Ashkelon resident, a divorced father of two, a 5-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. The girl attends the WIZO Day Care Center in Barzilai Medical Center. The boy was home with his grandmother, and when the “red alert” siren […]
Israeli Health Minister Visits Shamir Medical Centre (Assaf Harofeh) Emergency Department
BREAKING NEWS: Israeli Health Minister Visits Shamir Medical Centre (Assaf Harofeh) Emergency Department
Following an evening of heavy rocket fire across southern and central Israel, Health Minister, Yuli Edelstein, visited the state-of-the-art Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit at Shamir Medical Centre (Assaf Harofeh).
