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30 Nov

As we celebrate the festival of lights, we reflect on Hadassah UK’s projects this year

As the global uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and its variants continued into 2021, Hadassah has moved from strength to strength. Here are the moments over the past 12 months that have helped to illuminate Hadassah’s mission and have enhanced the health and lives of people in Jerusalem and worldwide through support of medical care and research at Hadassah’s hospitals. Hadassah UK […]

10 Nov

Hadassah’s COVID Warriors – Blog by Photographer Ariel Jerozolimski

Visiting the coronavirus ward at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem, I observed doctors, nurses, and other staff. They are truly heroic – and very tired. The coronavirus is still here. The numbers keep dropping and sometimes we forget that in the last year-and-a-half more than 8,000 Israelis have died from COVID-19, including 11 in […]

14 Oct

Battling Cancer at Hadassah

Hadassah’s 44-year-old Sharett Institute of Oncology at Hadassah’s Ein Kerem campus has set the benchmark for preventing, treating and researching cancer in Israel. “Its legacy of cancer care is very strong,” affirmed the Sharett Institute’s new director, Dr. Aron Popovtzer. “We’ve seen a 30 percent increase in patients this past year alone,” said Dr. Popovtzer, […]

31 Aug

Hadassah UK New Nursery at Mount Scopus – Rosh Hashanah Appeal

When Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus campus reopened in 1976, it was considered the most spacious and developed hospital in Jerusalem and was built to accommodate 250 births each month. Now this has almost doubled and, with nearly 500 babies born every month, is expected to rise significantly in time as Jerusalem continues to grow. With […]

19 Aug

Israel’s ICUs overflow as unvaccinated patients fall severely ill

As coronavirus cases continue to surge across Israel, the country’s hospitals say their intensive care units (ICUs) are working overtime to deal with the flow of new COVID patients, most of whom apparently were not vaccinated. Despite conducting one of the world’s fastest vaccination campaigns, Israel has been struggling to contain the highly contagious delta […]

12 Aug

HADASSAH EIN KEREM AND HADASSAH MOUNT SCOPUS NAMED ISRAEL’S BEST HOSPITALS

The Health Ministry’s report for 2020 places Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in first place in the major hospital category and Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus at the top in the category of small-campus hospitals. Both received a maximum score of 10. The scoresheet takes into account a vast array of services. Among them are the ability […]

27 Jul

LEST WE FORGET THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC YEAR

Hinda and Chaim, an Israeli couple who suffered from Covid-19, went on to become volunteers at Hadassah Hospital. In this story they share their experiences of helping other hospitalised victims at Hadassah. Last year on Tisha Be’av, Hinda Hekelman was too sick to fast. She was coughing and weak from the ravages of COVID-19. “Back […]

22 Jul

ISRAEL’S HEALTH MINISTER CONFIRMS POSSIBLE LOCKDOWN AS NUMBER OF SERIOUS COVID-19 CASES MOUNT

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz tells Army Radio that another lockdown is a “possibility.” As number of serious cases continues to rise, Hadassah Medical Centre reopens COVID unit. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett convened a meeting on Sunday devoted to more stringent enforcement of COVID-19 regulations in light of a spike in the number of new cases […]

8 Jul

Curbing Delta’s force, Vaccines keep Israel’s Hospitals calm and avert lockdown

‘’If we weren’t so well-vaccinated, lockdown would be looming.’’ Israel would be in the throes of a huge virus spike and hurtling toward a new lockdown, had it not reached such high vaccine coverage, the government’s top COVID adviser said. Despite having a large population 12 years old and younger who cannot currently receive shots, […]

29 Jun

From Israel to South America: Hadassah’s Butterfly Effect

Blog by Jorge Diener, Executive Director at Hadassah International It is an understatement to say that we are living in extraordinary times. More than a year ago, disruption was a word that represented innovation, creativity and thinking out-of-the-box. The Coronavirus pandemic has locked us inside boxes and disrupted, in one way or another, the lives […]

Tag Hadassah Medical Organisation

As we celebrate the festival of lights, we reflect on Hadassah UK’s projects this year

Hadassah’s COVID Warriors – Blog by Photographer Ariel Jerozolimski

Battling Cancer at Hadassah

Hadassah UK New Nursery at Mount Scopus – Rosh Hashanah Appeal

Israel’s ICUs overflow as unvaccinated patients fall severely ill

HADASSAH EIN KEREM AND HADASSAH MOUNT SCOPUS NAMED ISRAEL’S BEST HOSPITALS

LEST WE FORGET THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC YEAR

ISRAEL’S HEALTH MINISTER CONFIRMS POSSIBLE LOCKDOWN AS NUMBER OF SERIOUS COVID-19 CASES MOUNT

Curbing Delta’s force, Vaccines keep Israel’s Hospitals calm and avert lockdown

From Israel to South America: Hadassah’s Butterfly Effect

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