Shaare Zedek Spearheads IDF Field Hospital in Earthquake Zone
Professor Ofer Merin, Director General of Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center has arrived in Turkey’s earthquake affected disaster zone to serve as Director of the Israeli Defence Force’s Field Hospital. Prof. Merin is part of a group of key medical specialists from Shaare Zedek deployed to the zone for this critical mission. Prof Merin led […]
Parents, you must stop saying this at the holiday table
Translated and adapted from an article in www.mako.co.il The holiday season is packed with meals and meeting people we haven’t met in a long time. This combination can often lead us to make innocent but dangerous statements about appearance and comments about food. All of these can be a trigger for eating disorders. Shaare Zedek’s […]
Empowering young leaders
More than 170 youth leaders from seven Zionist organisations across Australia and New Zealand attended a training webinar last week to prepare youth leaders to respond to eating disorders in winter camps. The Australian Friends of Shaare Zedek in collaboration with the Australian Zionist Youth Council introduced Dr Toni Pikoos, clinical psychologist and postdoctoral […]
A year of Pandemic at Jerusalem’s Hospital with a Heart
It has been over a year since the Covid 19 pandemic changed our world as we know it. For Shaare Zedek, Jerusalem’s most central major hospital, the changes have been all encompassing and critical. The hospital recently released its figures for 2020 and they are confronting. Shaare Zedek Medical Center treated 3,432 Corona Patients […]
Shaare Zedek Medical Center one of Israel’s leaders in the Covid 19 response.
ICU beds at Shaare Zedek are set to double in the leadup to winter Shaare Zedek Medical Center is one of Israel’s leaders in the response to the Covid 19 pandemic. Director General Prof Ofer Merin and President of Shaare Zedek Prof Jonathan Halevy recently reported that Israel has a unique distinction as a country with […]
Largest COVID-19 Research Databse in Israel at SZ
Shaare Zedek Medical Center has developed the largest research database on the coronavirus in Israel. The database includes the collection and storage of biological samples, demographic information as well as clinical and laboratory data from patients who have SARS-CoV-2 virus (the virus strain that causes coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19) and a control group. The registry […]
Recovery from COVID-19
The staff of Keter Department E in Shaare Zedek Medical Center are happy to share that a 94 year old woman was released from Shaare Zedek after recuperating from the coronavirus (after receiving two negative coronavirus test results). The woman was hospitalized ten days ago after testing positive for the coronavirus and her family accompanied […]
Diversity at SZ
The staff and the patients in Shaare Zedek Medical Center are highly diverse and work together to treat and support each other. A special moment was captured as members of our messenger unit pray for safer and healthier times for people all around the world. Thank you to all of our staff and to medical […]
AI Innovation at Shaare Zedek
What happens when Artificial Intelligence is used in medical applications? What benefits can be achieved by analysing the massive amount of data collected by hospitals? Can we use Artificial Intelligence to find a cure for cancer? What do the questions you ask Dr Google reveal about you and how can we use this information to […]
Proud to be Jewish
The Australian Friends of Shaare Zedek have finished the Jewish year on a high. For the first 2 weeks of September we have hosted Rabbi Prof Avraham Steinberg, Jewish medical ethicist, paediatric neurologist, ordained Rabbi and appointee to Pope Francis’ Pontifical Academy of Life in the Vatican. His final public appearance was to a capacity […]