Israel building refugee aid centers on Ukraine’s border
Israel is moving to build refugee aid centers on Ukraine’s western border, among other forms of aid to be sent this week. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid instructed the ministry and MASHAV, Israel’s development and aid agency, to focus on four main areas of humanitarian aid. One is a refugee aid center that will serve all […]
How CHW is Supporting Ukraine
CHW continues to support the critical work of our partners in Israel, WIZO and Hadassah Medical Organization, who are working around the clock to assist and protect children, youth, and families affected by the crisis in Ukraine. CHW’s 2022 Annual Campaign will fulfill critical needs at Hadassah Hospital, allowing the hospital to continue emergency support […]
COVID so rampant that 1 in 10 medical staff at Jerusalem’s Hadassah are home sick
Almost one in ten staff members at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center are sick with the coronavirus, as hospitals teams across Israel experience strain due to infection of medical professionals. “It’s not bringing down the hospital to the point we can’t function but it does make it very hard, especially with 90 coronavirus patients and a […]
20 Israelis positive for Omicron subvariant, 306 COVID patients in serious condition
The Health Ministry reported 40,430 coronavirus cases on Friday morning, slightly down from the day before. Altogether, 319,572 Israelis were screened for the virus in the past 24 hours, which puts the infection rate at 12.65%. The reproduction rate, which refers to the number of people each confirmed carrier infects, stands at 1.8. The number […]
Omicron Appears More Contagious, Less Dangerous than Other Variants
New data published on Saturday suggest that the Omicron corona variant is more contagious but not as dangerous as other variants, according to Prof. Dror Mevorach, a senior physician from Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. “We have to say this with a lot of caution, but if we look at the currently available information, there is reason to […]
Hadassah Discovers Mechanism Contributing to Cancer in Overweight Women
Hadassah-University Medical Center researchers said they have found the mechanism that contributes to the aggressive progression of breast cancer in overweight women. “In the new study, we were able to characterize one of the mechanisms of increased progression of breast cancer in overweight patients – a growing phenomenon in Western countries,” said Prof. Tamar Peretz, who was […]
Organ Transplantation at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem
When it comes to donating an organ to save a life, Israelis rank near the top of the global rankings for living donors. And Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem is home to many of the transplant surgeries. As Wendy Elliman reports in her Hadassah Medicine column in the November/December 2021 issue of Hadassah Magazine, about 250 Israelis choose to donate their kidneys […]
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 […]
