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A 49-year-old Israeli man who decided not to vaccinate due to anti-vax "fake news" spread on social media expressed his regrets for his anti-vax...

An Israeli girl is seriously ill due to post-COVID syndrome about a month after her mother intentionally exposed her to COVID. Naama Bar-Ziv, 7, was...

In a fascinating and first-of-its-kind study carried out at the Emek Medical Center in the northern Israeli city of Afula, it was found that...

A teenager died on Shabbos of pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS) in Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petach Tikvah, in what is believed to...

A 6-month-old baby was hospitalized in the Safra Children's Hospital in the Sheba Medical Center in critical condition on Wednesday after developing pediatric inflammatory...

A 55-year-old Israeli woman who is critically ill due to the coronavirus has been waiting for three days to be attached to the life-saving...

Israel restricted its COVID Green Pass on Sunday to allow only those who have received a vaccine booster dose or recently recuperated from coronavirus...

Although Israel's infection rate and number of seriously ill patients have seen a slight decrease in recent days, there is currently a wave of...

Prof. Idit Matot, the director of the Surgery Division and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain at the Tel Aviv...

The yishuv of Nariya in Binyamin was engulfed in mourning on Motzei Shabbos upon hearing the news of the tragic death of Renana Kantrovitch,...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chose to use the international platform at the UN General Assembly to criticize senior Israeli health officials, later repeating the...

Israel's Health Ministry announced last week that it will finally offer the lifesaving Regeneron antibody treatment for COVID to Kupot Cholim to treat mildly...

Israel is pressing ahead with its vigorous campaign of offering coronavirus boosters to almost anyone over 12 and says its approach was further vindicated...

Is the delta variant of the coronavirus worse for kids? Experts say there’s no strong evidence that it makes children and teens sicker than earlier...

Two Chareidi pregnant women, both in their 20s, are hospitalized in critical condition, sedated and ventilated, in a Jerusalem hospital after contracting COVID. The women,...

Israeli hospital directors have been expressing their frustration to Israeli media outlets this week that Israelis "who choose to play Russian roulette with their...

A 53-year-old Israeli man who suffered a heart attack died last week after hospital staff members were unable to locate an ECMO machine for...

As YWN reported on Wednesday, Israel's hospitals are overcrowded with coronavirus patients, and shortages of ECMO machines, ICU beds and staff means that patients'...

Chaya Leah Bergman, a'h, 31, of Modiin Illit passed away of the coronavirus on Tuesday evening, Motzei Yom Tov, in Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center...

In a tense meeting with Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash on Sunday, hospital directors warned that their hospitals are nearing a state of...

Dr. Homayoun Sameyeh-Najafabadi, a pharmacologist and the representative of the Jewish community in Iranian parliament since 2020, said recently that there are 500 cases...

Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash said last week that Israel's current coronavirus wave is worse than all the previous waves. Speaking via teleconference at a...

There's been an increase in recent days in the number of pregnant and postpartum women hospitalized in Israel after contracting the coronavirus. As of Wednesday,...

Avi Shaulian, the brother of Chai Shaulian, z'l, a leading Israeli anti-vaxxer who died of COVID earlier this week, tearfully spoke about the loss...

A 21-year-old Israeli who hadn't been vaccinated against COVID contracted the virus and passed away on Motzei Shabbos at Wolfson Hospital in Holon. After suffering...

Prof. Galia Rahav, director of the Infectious Diseases Department at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer who is considered one of the most senior...

An unvaccinated 28-year-old unvaccinated new mother was hospitalized in serious condition in the UCU At Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera over Yom Tov after...

Health Ministry officials on Sunday morning confirmed Israel's lowest infection rate in over two weeks, with the positivity rate at 5.76%, a steep decrease...

There are currently 46 pregnant and postpartum women in Israel hospitalized with the coronavirus, with six women in critical condition, Kan News reported. There are...

Amid a soaring infection rate, Israel has confirmed over 550 coronavirus fatalities in the past month. Could some of these deaths have been avoided? According...

A Health Ministry representative revealed on Thursday that a critically ill coronavirus patient was flown from Uman to Israel. In a discussion in the Knesset's...

People who are vaccinated abroad who enter Israel will have to enter quarantine despite the new regulations announced by the Health Ministry earlier this...

Israel leads the world in the number of coronavirus cases per capita over the past week, an Oxford University study published on Tuesday shows. The...

Israel's Health Ministry confirmed 10,900 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the highest number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic. The last...

Chassidic courts are busy preparing for large crowds during the Yamim Noraim, especially Gerrer and Karlin-Stolin, both of which are known to be stringent...