Israel’s Health Ministry advising genetic testing for those conceived via sperm donations in central Israel from 1974 to 1985, after discovering donor carried a Lynch syndrome mutation linked to elevated cancer risk.
A postwar survey shows smoking rate higher than the OECD average, with twice the rate of smoking among the Arab public as compared to Jewish citizens.
Health Ministry warns of public exposure in Ben Gurion Airport and Cinema City; urges immediate vaccination for the unprotected.
The unvaccinated 11-year-old girl and her father returned to Israel while still carrying the illness. An epidemiological investigation to locate anyone who was in contact with them.
Ministry of Health appoints professional teams to assess medical response, evacuation of casualties, mental health, and general operations during the war.
Health Ministry sends guidelines to hospitals preparing to receive released hostages ahead of impending ceasefire deal with Hamas.
The National Transplant Center reports an increase in kidney transplants. Approximately 1,481 patients are registered on the waiting list for an organ donation.
'Report highlights horrors the hostages endured, reveals the brutality of the enemy with whom Israel is engaged; global community must utilize all available means to end this cruelty and bring the hostages home,' Health Minister Uriel Busso says.
The Ministry of Health issues update on two patients in the Haifa region with measles, who were not vaccinated against the illness.
Ministry of Health investigates possible connection between the death of a newborn and the controversial method that has been previously banned in Israel.
Forensic examinations of the six bodies of the hostages which were recovered on Saturday found that they were shot to death at point-blank by Hamas terrorists in the past 48-72 hours.
Eleven-month-old unvaccinated infant hospitalized in PICU after contracting Haemophilus influenza B, developing meningitis.
Sa'ar Baking Products recalls halva-flavored cream products due to insufficient allergen warnings.
Gai beach closed after man dies from naegleria fowleri infection, 10-year-old hospitalized with brain infection. Both victims had been at that beach.
Healthy ten-year-old boy may have contracted 'brain-eating amoeba,' Health Ministry says.
Painkillers, wound creams, and other common non-prescription medications may soon be sold in supermarkets and other non-pharmaceutical businesses.
Health Ministry recalls KARAWAN tahini after salmonella discovered during routine check.
The young man was hospitalized on Tuesday with symptoms identified as the 'brain-eating amoeba,' but despite medication, died a day later. Two years ago, another person died of the same infection.
This is the second case to be reported in Israel and the first time doctors are treating it in a patient.
Health Ministry says 25-year-old man in critical condition after likely contracting primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a condition caused by the amoeba naegleria fowleri, at Kinneret beach. The disease has a fatality rate of nearly 100%.
The Israeli Ministry of Health announced that until now 21 patients have been diagnosed with West Nile Virus - 17 of the patients were hospitalized with neurological symptoms and two have died.
Rabbi David Ohayon, rabbi of Alfei Menashe, urges Health Ministry to declare children's right to know their parents identities as stronger than the right to parenthood. 'Legal justification already exists.'
Following complaints, Health Ministry conducts lab tests on Ma'ale Iron oils, warns against consuming them.
Health Ministry gives instructions to hospital and health system heads to be prepared due to increasing threats on northern border and from Iran.
The clock change is expected to bring a number of benefits to the Israeli economy.
The affected eggs were imported from Georgia and donated by women known to carry hemophilia; police investigate.
Residents of the Binyamin region warn that a massive garbage fire set illegally by Palestinians over August will soon be reignited.
Minister Busso noted that no change has been made in his clear policy to not allow terrorists or civilians from Gaza and Lebanon to be received at hospitals in Israel.
Hospital directors were instructed to receive civilians who were wounded during the war and how to return them to Gaza following their treatment.
The Israeli food company Strauss has recalled imported breakfast cereal due to concerns of salmonella in the manufacturing plant.
Health Ministry: "daunting task of analyzing videos and hearing testimonies of returned hostages, to determine condition of the hostages.
A new initiative assembled a database of potential volunteers and is assisting them in receiving a temporary Israeli medical license.
Minister of Health says rescue organizations should be merged under official state bodies. 'The State should sponsor them.'
Health Ministry says it is seeking to have wounded terrorists from Saturday massacre treated in Prison Service facilities.
Four two-year-old children from Tel Aviv diagnosed as positive for measles. Health Ministry conducting epidemiological investigation.
Health Ministry official traveled to Saudi Arabia to meet with one of the kingdom's ministers, report says.
The Health Ministry has ordered 200,000 vaccines to counter the rise in critical COVID-19 hospitalizations.
Ministry of Health recommends the entire population receive booster vaccines against COVID-19.
A microbial anomaly found in some Huggies baby wipes has led to several batches of the product being recalled by the manufacturer.
Ministry of Health recommends that people at high-risk use a mask in closed places to minimize the risk of infection.
Health Minister Moshe Arbel writes to Moroccan counterpart, offers medical personnel and equipment to area struck by earthquake.
A man identifying as a woman was sent healthcare information on how to reduce risk during pregnancy.
Ministry makes recommendations on masking and isolation as it monitors morbidity data.
Health Ministry publishes new plan, aims to reduce percentage of smokers to 5% by 2035.
Health Min.: 0 reports of people 18-50 dying of COVID-19 without preexisting conditions; info based only on epidemiological investigations.
Health Committee Chairman MK Uriel Busso presented a plan to eradicate the phenomenon of violence against medical professionals.
Committee recommends that the Ministry of Health prepare for a COVID-19 vaccination campaign every year in the fall months.
Incoming Health Minister decides that airlines will require foreign citizens to undergo COVID-19 test on flights from China to Israel.
COVID-19 czar meets heads of HMOs, gives them schedule for closing the testing facilities and ending the isolation requirements.
'Pfizer vaccine is neither safe nor effective,' says ex-head of Israel Institute for Biological Research, drawing rebuttal from Health Min.
Fungal parasite Microsporidia believed to be behind recent spate of eye infections among people who bathed in the Kinneret.
New protein-based jab offers an alternative to those who were unable or unwilling to receive the other available options
After trying to hide the problem & refusing to recall the product, the Health Ministry got involved and forced them to take responsibility.
Movement for social justice calls on Health Ministry to reinstate mask requirements, require COVID testing for international travelers.
In northern Israel, a 36-year-old dies after exposure to a rare amoeba, naegleria fowleri.
Website of Ministry of Health attacked by hackers, making it inaccessible to users from abroad.
Health Ministry approves coronavirus vaccines for youngest children, but has not issued recommendation for their use.
Health Ministry in process of purchasing toddler vaccines from Pfizer, report says.
The three new cases are between the ages of 30 and 60 from central Israel.
Health Ministry officials respond to assault on doctor with a metal rod at a Clalit office/
